Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, only 42 jurisdictions have acknowledged the importance of blue carbon as a climate mitigation and adaptation strategy in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement seemed well-positioned to join the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (halting atomic explosions above ground that contaminated the atmosphere) and the 1987 Montreal Protocol (ending use of chemicals that damaged the ozone layer) as one of the three most significant environmental treaties ever negotiated.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Sure enough on Thursday, China and the European Union joined forces to pledge to work together to slow down global heating and they called the Paris Agreement “the cornerstone of international climate cooperation,” without mentioning the US.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 13, 2025

Together they account for more than 40 percent of gross domestic product globally and around a quarter of all energy-related carbon dioxide pollution, according to the International Energy Agency. is the only one among them that is not trying to hit a carbon reduction goal. What’s on the table?

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

All of this dismantling of climate policy means that the US will add an extra 7 billion tons of emissions to the atmosphere “from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement,” according to an analysis by Carbon Brief.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Heres what else I see Good news A Cleaner China: For the first time, the growth in Chinas clean power generation has caused the nations carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. -China climate cooperation are also named, notes Sarah Schonhardt for E&E News.

Rainforest

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 4, 2025

set out in the Paris Agreement is increasingly at risk of being breached. The EU is legally committed to achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050 … Continue reading Scaling up carbon dioxide removals Recommendations for navigating opportunities and risks in the EU

Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

The study found that limiting warming in coming decades as well as longer term requires policies that focus not only on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also of “short-lived climate pollutants”—greenhouse gases including methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—along with black carbon, or soot.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. Science shows that keeping the 1.5

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Despite all the work, all the dedication, of thousands of people around the world, there’s a good chance we’ll blow past the Paris Agreement’s targets. In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. Suppose we do miss those targets?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2024

Short-lived climate forcers are pollutants, including aerosols and particulate matter, that remain in the atmosphere for a shorter period than carbon dioxide but have a potent impact on global warming and air quality. We will also tackle the outline that will guide the Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., reach its climate goals. o C above pre-industrial levels.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report published today by the Sabin Center examines the laws governing international transport of carbon dioxide for sequestration. We focus, specifically, on the shipping of carbon dioxide that was captured in Europe to the United States for sequestration there.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is growing globally. In its Sixth Assessment Report , released last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero by the early 2050s to limit warming to 1.5 By Carolina Arlota and Korey Silverman-Roati.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The IPCC also decided to organize an expert meeting on carbon dioxide removal technologies. The challenge is stark—the IPCC’s historic six- or seven-year report cycle is out of step with the five-year intervals of the GST, an essential review under the Paris Agreement.

2028

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

The suit seeks to hold them personally liable for failing to adopt and implement a climate strategy that aligns with the Paris agreement. Despite clear scientific evidence showing the ongoing and potential future impacts of climate change, over the last year overall carbon emissions have increased worldwide.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

Sea Level

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Worldwide, nature’s power to breathe, filter and store carbon dioxide can provide more than 1/3 of emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris Agreement target, according to a pioneering study by The Nature Conservancy and partners. Trees capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) through the process of photosynthesis.

Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. It is not hard to see why.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal is key to meeting the climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A new study analyzes what fair and equitable burden-sharing means for nature-based carbon dioxide removal in developing countries. Read the full story from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

The Role of the Paris Agreement One dispute between those filing submissions was over the role of the Paris Agreement. Some State submissions argued that the Paris Agreement occupies the field of climate change, and UNCLOS imposes no additional obligations.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. It shows a world dangerously off track and careening toward a temperature increase of around 2.5?C

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That is well above the Paris agreement, designed to keep warming as far below 2°C as possible. Some 22 governments and the European Commission have already signed up to the new missions, which cover urban transitions, cutting industrial emissions, carbon dioxide removal, and developing greener fuels and materials.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Earth’s surface is about 70 percent ocean; the ocean absorbs 95 percent of our excess heat and over 25 percent of our excess carbon dioxide, contributes half of Earth’s oxygen production, and provides other services that sustain life as we know it.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

My job was to distill the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment findings and the outcomes of the recent Global Stocktake, which measured how well national climate commitments are meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. Afterwards, the Tribunal will deliberate and provide their opinion around March 2024.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2022

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Here, we define the Ambition Gap as the difference between the emissions reductions expected from a government’s planned policies and pledges, and those required to meet the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, in light of best available science. C temperature target within reach.

Government

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The study—" Leveraging the potential of nature to meet net zero greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State ”—centers on how Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) harness the capacity of forests, wetlands and farmlands to absorb and store carbon dioxide that’s in the atmosphere, lessening the impacts of climate change.

Climate Change

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial.

2023

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The court found that complainants’ fundamental rights were not violated preemptively because the federal legislator, not the state legislatures, are subject to a carbon dioxide emissions budget. Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) ). Climate cases also failed on merits in several countries. In Smith v.

2022

Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Creator: George Stoyle The oceans absorb large quantities of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities. Yet, both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement treat the ocean primarily as a sink of instrumental value to the climate system.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the growing interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the complex legal issues it raises. Meanwhile, in discussions under the UNFCC and Paris agreement, ocean CDR is being touted for its climate benefits.

Precautionary Principle