Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

So methane emissions seemed to be something that could be addressed at any point we got around to them. I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 29, 2024

Large producers of carbon-based fuels will be required to pay “damages” that reflect each producer’s percentage share of carbon emissions from 2000 through 2018 or 2019 divided by a denominator intended to reflect that state’s expected climate damages. Fundamentally, the legislation is reasonably straightforward.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing. The report authors were careful to note that the worst potential outcomes of climate change are not a foregone conclusion.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On this theory, China seems to have a clear duty to pay: it emits about 28% of world carbon, so it should be paying a hefty fee to other countries to compensate them for the harm its current emissions will cause them now and in the future. Compensation for Past Conduct. Global Income Redistribution.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Today, I’ll explain how we might advance political feasibility through climate policy, how that is connected to technological innovation, and how we must necessarily balance between all four of these goals (efficiency, equity, political feasibility, and technological innovation) in developing climate policy. Green spirals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions. In any case, Brazil’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 is conditional and depends on external funding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Because of this, a 30% hydrogen mix by volume delivers only a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. This view of the natural world lacks the ethic of reciprocity that she was taught.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is not a surprise, particularly after Governor Lamont’s statement that there is no political support for TCI in Connecticut. It is difficult to implement a region-wide program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels when only one state in the region is prepared to do so. .

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. In a nutshell: IRA promises to have a dramatic short-term impact on carbon emissions, but will have an even greater long-term impact due to dynamic effects. Renewable energy policies create stronger renewable industries, which then push for even stronger policies.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water. Reducing carbon emissions would relieve the mounting pressure of weather extremes. Charles Iceland of the World Resources Institute is tracking the commitments.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. “.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. Yet it can be difficult to make emission trading systems more environmentally ambitious after program launch.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

carbon emissions. That’s particularly true given that climate policy is such a divisive issue in American politics, so there’s no national consensus to use as a basis for recognizing the new right. Juliana was a valiant effort by a group of young people to force the federal government to plan for stringent reductions in U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

In a lackluster effort to placate shareholders’ climate concerns, the company pledged to cut carbon emissions from its oil, gas and chemicals businesses to net zero by 2050. Chevron (Wednesday, May 25, at 8 a.m. The public comment period on the rule is open through June 17. Looming Liability.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Certain targeted taxes–for example, on large commercial buildings’ carbon emissions or on vacant properties–can both raise revenue equitably and align with broader climate goals. In addition, Proposition 13 requires supermajority public approval of new taxes that are targeted to specific programs (i.e.,

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

Other companies and sectors–electricity, heavy industry, and light manufacturing in particular–have reduced their carbon emissions as those from oil and gas companies have gone up and up and up. The cap should include all carbon emissions from oil and gas production and use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the bill’s definition of what constitutes clean energy includes nuclear power (which doesn’t emit carbon but isn’t “clean”) and fossil gas power plants that capture and store at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells. Perhaps most importantly, the new IPCC assessment draws attention to research on disinformation and political polarization over climate science in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Here’s the bottom line: Because of decades of politically motivated inaction from policymakers, especially in richer countries, and the greed of fossil fuel companies bent on extracting every last bit of profit, scientific projections show that we are currently on a trajectory to exceed 1.5˚C

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Carbon emissions stayed about constant under Bush, with an average around 5.6 Assuming parity between the two is a reasonably plausible, though ultimately unprovable, assumption. Given that assumption, we can roughly calculate the harm done by Bush. billion tons per year. billion by the time he left office, about a 13% cut.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Those legislative efforts have in turn received a lot of political and legal resistance – including lawsuits alleging that the state does not have the authority to limit local control over land-use, and activist groups challenging state intervention.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The C3S director Carlo Buontempo said, “These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions”. There is broadly political and scientific agreement that temperature increases must be limited to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. As someone who thinks a lot about soil carbon, the issue I see as rather under-discussed is what carbon economists call, “leakage.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

They are literally putting their political interests and profits over our collective well-being. Yet, too often, politicians and fossil fuel interests are still deliberately sowing doubt about the science, and disinformation about the solutions, to block or delay climate action.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. It’s not hard to see why some people despair about the climate. The Paris Agreement’s goal is to keep global warming well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5° C, over pre-industrial levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. The Minnesota House has proposed legislation to update the state’s target for reducing heat-trapping emissions to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 and reach 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient. This dangerous delay in action is largely due to the fossil fuel industry continuing to increase carbon emissions and standing in the way of change. .

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 15, 2023

If this is allowed to happen, it will make cities more congested, increase carbon emissions, and have the greatest impact on society’s most vulnerable. In a climate emergency, our political leaders must do the same. The federal government has saved public transit from disaster before, and it can do it again.”

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