A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). In this blog post, we will briefly explain (i) the background of climate change laws in Colombia, (ii) the nature and reach of the ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ,’ and (iii) the two judgments and their implications for climate action in Colombia.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. policy also has a significant impact on Cuba’s energy sector.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This group of nearly all the world’s nations says that it: [R]ecognizes the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5 °C Non-CO2 greenhouse gases. In a fourth significant subsection, section 28 highlights the role of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

To borrow a page from his playbook, let’s consider a bold, “all-in” strategy to combat climate change – one that includes aggressive and timely actions by the states to abate greenhouse gas emissions. EPA is a significant setback for the Biden Administration and its efforts to address climate change.

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Capaccio

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. However, the document still provides insight into the direction of the climate action landscape of the coming decade. What’s Next?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climate change said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. Climate change is a material risk, but it is only one factor in an investment decision.” .

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

Credit: Tobias Reich, Unsplash The Sabin Center’s Global Climate Change Litigation Database currently lists over 2000 cases. And what do they say about the future of climate litigation in the country? And what do they say about the future of climate litigation in the country?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

“A combination of elected and unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency quietly strangles domestic energy production through difficult-to-understand rulemaking processes.” Gunasekara is a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. Asked if the U.S.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. By Lou Del Bello.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement? above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend. Why is 1.5C so important?

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2022

For decades, the industry worked hard to deny climate change, and then to delay climate action. The answer to climate change, Legg and others argue, is the same as the cause of climate change: fossil fuels. Several credible studies indicate that gas may be as bad for the climate as coal.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals. C within reach.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

After studying physics at Royal Holloway , Majainah did a Master’s in renewable energy and sustainability at the University of Reading , UK. Biggins’ research involves creating computational models that use machine learning to predict how prices of energy-storage technologies such as batteries and green hydrogen will evolve over time.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Indonesia’s government looks at coal as the cheapest energy source, but ignores the fact that continuing to build these coal plants – and in particular mine-mouth plants – clashes with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. Air pollution and emissions from coal are problems across Indonesia.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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APRIL 21, 2023

These pristine, ecologically unique landscapes are increasingly threatened by human-caused stressors such as greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to the harmful impacts of climate change on people and the planet. Tackling the climate crisis requires a multifaceted approach. That depends on how fast we act.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. In short, past Energy Futures have modelled climate failure.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

It agreed that measures of climate protection and the energy sector shall be at the forefront of the economic reconstruction after the crisis, taking into account in particular the goal of climate-neutrality of the EU by 2050 ( p.3 Energy consumers shall be empowered, but the Council does not take an own initiative here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 2, 2021

At least 13 climate-related ISDS cases filed between 2012 and the present were identified. While these cases do not always contain explicit references to climate change, they all relate directly to the introduction, withdrawal or amendment of a policy measure explicitly developed to meet a country’s climate goals.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One year ago, parties to the UNFCCC signed the Paris Agreement, expecting it to come into force over the next four years as individual nations went through the slow process of ratification. To everyone’s surprise, the requisite number of nations ratified it, and as of November 4, the Paris Agreement officially came into force.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I should note that we only discussed domestic policy, not foreign affairs moves such as exiting the Paris Agreement. Eric and I considered substantive legislative changes very unlikely although potentially very damaging. Pollution and Climate Change. I’ll follow the same organization today. Legislation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This is vital to meet rising demand for electricity among Moroccans, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. Like much of Africa, Morocco has a lot to lose from climate change. Salaheddine Mezouar, who emphasized the need for “urgent, tangible action” to implement the Paris Agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While the agreed-upon Glasgow Climate Pact achieved some significant objectives, pledges fell 1 degree C short of securing a habitable future world. degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 And we remain sandwiched between China and India as the second leading greenhouse gas producer.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

With a view to traditional media outlets, the discourse is dominated by the Covid-19 crisis, and frequently disregards other themes, such as climate and energy policy. They are against climate targets, want to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and stop the Dutch Climate Agreement.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

On January 20 of this year we launched the Climate Reregulation Tracker to follow the Biden-Harris administration’s progress in undoing its predecessor’s assault on climate change policy by reinstating, expanding and building upon previous climate actions. By Hillary Aidun. This post provides a review.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties meet every year at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to negotiate and agree action on how to tackle climate change, limit emissions, and halt global warming. within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

With the release of its 2021 Progress Report , the Pittsburgh 2030 District , an initiative of the Green Building Alliance and the largest 2030 District in North America, announced it will move its primary focus from energy reduction to carbon reduction goals in response to urgent developments in climate science.

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000. The order creates a new N.C.

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