Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

And, the recent report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is no exception. The IPCC tells us that this is the decade when we must take action on climate change to avoid the worst- case scenarios. In our fight against climate change, we need to make sure every dollar makes a difference.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 17, 2024

The lack of surprise came as Putin had forcefully removed any credible opposition to him with the largest threat to the president’s reign being the charismatic Alexei Navalny, who was first imprisoned by the Russian government, and was recently mystically found dead in prison.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For instance, Iowa can generate more wind power than it can get to markets in Chicago and further east. The effort to build new transmission has been stymied, however, by resistance from utilities and state governments. That’s the first real non-military federal funding for climate change adaptation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. Inauguration Week.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

trillion in avoided climate change-related damages. EN: UCS’s analysis looks at various ways the United States could meet its climate targets. The United States needs to accelerate this momentum and ramp up renewables to much higher levels to meet climate goals. What are the main solutions? Your thoughts?

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clean renewable electricity – such as wind and solar power – is the lowest cost source of new electricity supply. Clean electricity is absolutely integral to efforts to decarbonize the economy and fight climate change. And it is a competitive advantage for the province.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, our report examines the common misconceptions that electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change ( they do not ); that electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health ( it does not ); and that solar energy development negatively impacts U.S. jobs ( it does not ).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

This has been the biggest difference, with the cost of net zero a recurring theme – despite the fact that well-insulated homes will save households money, and onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electricity. What will it take to rebuild a sense of common purpose around the climate?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

gigawatt (GW) wind farm, Hollandse Kust Zuid, which is scheduled for completion next year. The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

Pointing to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ definition of climate refugees as “persons displaced in the context of disasters and climate change,” he noted that the housing crisis was terrible before, but has worsened with the increase of local climate refugees. When help isn’t helpful.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The 2021 law marked a rare Republican-backed move to expand government intervention into landowners’ private property rights, and it created unlikely coalitions, with the state’s Chamber of Commerce and some Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure last year. Find all the work here. Looking Ahead.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And CO 2 emissions are a primary driver of global climate change, which is exacerbating the type of extreme weather that killed 474 people and caused $165 billion in damages in the United States last year alone. GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. Despite the government`s big talk on climate action , the country has hardly made a dent in easing its reliance on gas in recent years.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The situation can only be altered if the world’s governments rapidly scale up their ambitions. The latter wording having been a key demand from the most pro- tackling climate change governments, which included those poor communities most in the firing line and least responsible for climate change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

We think in China that the government snaps fingers and things happen, right, because it’s a centralized one-party state. And then the national government caught wind of it—no pun intended—and started to put in place in very strategic subsidies. How could we do more?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. It would be a mistake to assume that the full and final solution to the climate crisis should only be found at the UN climate talks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To regionalize or not to regionalize remains unanswered Early in the legislative session, Assemblymember Chris Holden introduced Assembly Bill 538 which would have changed the governance of the California’s grid operator from a governor-appointed board to an independent structure that would allow for a more coordinated, region-wide grid.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 18, 2021

It is also one of the key areas of concern for France, the UK (where the next climate summit will be held in November) and for Germany, where the Green Party is expected to play a significant role in the next government. Climate issues are rising in importance for Moscow. The government must steer a careful course.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. 2017.06.15. 2017.06.15.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fossil fuel extraction not only ignites climate change, but degrades land and wildlife ecosystems, pollutes waterways, acidifies the oceans, exacerbates natural disasters, expropriates Indigenous land , and leads to devastating chronic health impacts for fossil fuel industry workers and adjacent communities. Source: Barsamuphe/Flickr.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Had the current provincial government not canceled over 750 renewable energy projects in its first term, we would already be in a better position. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This action proposes strategic collaboration across Louisiana state agencies and the federal government, transmission planning agencies, energy regulators, and the private sector, to take additional steps to advance development of offshore wind power generation. (Associated Submitted Action Proposals: n/a).

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

As people around the world grapple with climate change, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. What is tidal energy? What is tidal energy?

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

By Zofeen Ebrahim Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. Bao Zhong, political counsellor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Islamabad, told me that the Chinese government stands by the pledge.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. Take, let’s say, a border carbon tax.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Implicit in the story of green spirals is another key factor we will want to keep center-stage in thinking about climate policy – the importance of advancing decarbonization technologies. And it increases the political feasibility of decarbonization because if decarbonization is cheaper, it becomes less of a lift for governments to pursue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: Wind Power, Solar Energy PPA’s Increased 11.4% In 3rd Quarter Due To Growing Demand, Supply Chain, Transmission Roadblocks -- Reuters: Global CO2 Emissions To Grow Less Than 1% This Year Thanks To renewables - IEA -- AP: Climate Questions: Who Is Most Vulnerable To Climate Change?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. Now in place for three months, the new coalition has overhauled a decades-long political stance toward Russia which was centred on Wandel durch Handel (change through trade).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly. If you live in a municipality with an existing gas plant, you have the power to help stop it from expanding. Why would we make electricity, to make hydrogen, to make electricity?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. A declaration was issued by 20 countries at COP28 with a goal of tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to help address climate change concerns.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Activists concerned about climate change seek to help wean the U.S. from fossil fuels by impeding the construction of pipelines that feed fossil fuel power plants. One aspect of the debate questions what level of government should have primary control over the siting of energy infrastructure.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

New United Nations Climate Report Warns of a ‘Code Red for Humanity’. The Intergovernmental Panel on Panel on Climate Change released its sixth assessment report , ahead of the UN Conference of Parties Climate Meeting in Glasglow, Scotland in October and November 2021. UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Marrakech for the 22 nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as COP22. Secretary Kerry began his address by declaring: “climate change is deeply personal to me, but its personal to everyone in this room.

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