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On September 20, Canada must elect a government committed to a green and just pandemic recovery

Enviromental Defense

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060. But analysis based on wider datasets is more conservative.

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The Turning Tide

Legal Planet

On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations.

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An Effective Strategy on Climate Change Requires State Action

Acoel

the Departments of Interior and Energy). In the first decade-plus of this Century, about half of the states actively sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy alternatives to coal. commitments under the Paris Agreement. Some plans also include adaptation policies and measures.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case challenging federal and state reviews and authorizations of a logging project and biomass energy facility on public forestland that burned during the 2013 Rim Fire. Association of Irritated Residents v. F078460 (Cal.

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One Year and Counting

Legal Planet

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. Along with the EU, he also pledged to cut global methane emissions in half. North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. League of Conservation Voters v. Biden , No. 19-35460 (9th Cir.

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