Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The labs – including CERN, the European Space Agency, Fermilab and the Los Alamos National Laboratory – have announced that they will step up their scientific collaboration on carbon-neutral energy and climate change as well as share best practices to improve the carbon footprint of big-science facilities.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 16, 2022

This white paper summarizes readily available information on control techniques and measureswith the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary combustionturbines permitted to operate as electric utility generating units (EGUs).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m currently in Istanbul, Türkiye, with my colleague Adam Markham , for the opening session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle. While the global understanding of climate change is well-established, the world’s response remains sluggish.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Physics World

JUNE 17, 2022

Using historical data and 14 state-of-the-art climate models, the team calculated how blossoming times will change under various global-warming scenarios. Under a medium greenhouse-gas emissions scenario, the trio reckon that full blossoming will be pushed ahead by nearly a week by the end of the century.

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Breezometer

APRIL 6, 2022

Allergy sufferers may have to brace themselves - researchers predict the US could see as much as a 200% increase in pollen this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, which may also cause pollen season to start between 10 to 40 days earlier. But why does this happen?

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission proposed ESG Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures that will among other matters require companies for the first time to disclose greenhouse gas emission data, we continue to work with companies in complying with the SEC’s existing disclosure requirements as they apply to climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For decades, these companies spent massive amounts of money misleading the public and politicians about climate science. Now, they are pretending they care about climate change and want to do something about it. This is what is meant by carbon capture and storage (CCS). Sounds good, but does it work?

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For nearly three decades the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on Earth for global climate summits known as the “Conference of the Parties”. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades.

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Manning Law

JUNE 15, 2022

Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change launched the first in a developing series of federal offset protocols.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 1, 2021

In their important book: The Race Between Education and Technology, Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz use a supply and demand framework to discuss changes in the U.S I have sketched out this importance race because it helps to set up the pitch for my new Yale Press book " Adapting to Climate Change". This is the bad news.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. billion on advertising.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 15, 2021

The world generates trillions of pounds in solid waste each year and landfills are no solution as they leak greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. AMP Robotics thinks it can solve some of the recycling industry’s biggest challenges with an AI and machine vision-based autonomous recyclables-sorting technology.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Carbon capture has never worked as promised, the carbon is dangerous to transport, and the technology is extremely expensive, especially compared to the plummeting costs of renewable energy. This isn’t just a bad bet for the climate, it’s bad for Albertans.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Standing based on climate impacts C. Climate science F. Climate justice II. EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. Implementing CCS technology, however, on a commercial scale has proven complex and costly. Want proof?

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and disruptive climate change has come on more quickly than expected.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. These amazing facts really shouldn’t amaze us because we often see efficiency gains when we transition from one technology to another. The average North American drives about 10,500 miles per year.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The article surveys a range of criticisms of the use of carbon taxes as a tool to address greenhouse gas emissions, and criticisms of the focus of many economists on carbon taxes as the primary tool to address climate change. Does this mean that there is no role for carbon pricing in climate policy?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Rabe , Brookings Institution & Christopher Borick , Director Muhlenberg College Institute Of Public Opinion The 25th National Surveys On Energy and the Environment conducted by Muhlenberg College was recently released on the public’s opinions on energy and climate policy and beliefs.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The impacts of climate change are upon us, a consequence of over a century of global warming emissions from human activity. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. On the technology side, decarbonization is the key.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the first planning period, the principal controversy surrounding state plans was implementation of the “best available retrofit technology” (BART) requirement for coal-fired power plants. The post Regional Haze Regulation: Visibility or climate change? appeared first on ACOEL.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Nonetheless, here are some of what seemed to me to be important takeaways: Firstly, and most importantly, we’re not doing a very good job at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 23, 2023

As concerns about climate change move from mainstream society to businesses large and small, the significance of greenhouse gas emissions and specifically the move to decarbonize economies across the globe is receiving increased attention. businesses operate in leased space.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

The need to invest in our Nation’s future is especially true when it comes to the unprecedented risks we face from the climate crisis – and the opportunities we can create through action. Future damages could dwarf current damages if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. economy and the lives of everyday Americans. billion.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How might those risks compare to the altered rainfall patterns, flooding, and extreme heat that we’re already seeing due to climate change?

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. The oil and gas industry, led by Chevron U.S.A.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act would invest $20 billion to help the nation’s farmers respond to climate change. Here I’ll expand a bit on the provisions of the bill aimed at agriculture. $20 20 billion for farmers and resilient farmland. This is less than the $23 billion investment we advocated for in last year’s House-passed legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Shapiro released the consensus recommendations by the Climate and Energy Work Group of organized labor, energy industry, consumer and environmental stakeholders to discuss Pennsylvania’s energy future, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2023

His research focuses on the intersection of digitalization and climate change, environmental degradation, and the future of food production. Advocates of precision agriculture often frame technology as a seamless solution to the problems that ecological crisis and climate change pose to food systems.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The plan describes in great detail the pathways to achieving the Climate Act’s ambitious requirements, and frames for the clean energy market the technologies and strategies that will be more (or less, in some cases) promising in New York State for decades to come.

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