Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Global Energy Monitor’s tracking of corporate methane emissions found that 30 fossil fuel companies were responsible for 43% of the sectors’ emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. A bit more on those reasons later.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 19, 2023

Annually, countries spend six times more on subsidizing fossil fuel consumption than their commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Those talks have had ups and downs through the years and have resulted in (among other things) the adoption of the Paris Agreement. What is realistic to achieve this year, given that context? How will countries respond to this critical moment? How will the COP28 parties respond to these urgent needs?

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Inhabitant

JULY 22, 2021

Despite promises, G20 nations continue to invest in fossil fuels amid the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Last year’s UN climate talks, while criticized for certain shortcomings , brought into sharp focus the need for robust legal frameworks to transition from fossil fuels. The UAE Consensus , while a leap forward , left many wondering: How do nations bridge the lofty ambitions of international agreements with real-world action?

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Today at COP28 Canada joined eight other countries in signing a Joint Ministerial Statement on Fossil Fuel Subsidies , to address inaction on a 14 year old commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 14, 2021

Canada’s big five banks are deservedly feeling more heat lately about their funding of fossil fuels. They are among the worst in the world, pumping $727 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed, while scoring among the lowest on having policies to rectify this.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The heavyweight global companies, such as Nestle, Unilever, the Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars, are just some of the leading signatures of a letter sent ahead of COP28 to world leaders, which calls on agreeing a timeline to phase out fossil fuels. COP28 begins on the 30th of November.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. In fact, Indonesia is moving its capital 600 miles away for this reason. Several official plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.” And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the Paris Agreement now seems an uphill task. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Unfortunately these energy scenarios become a self-fulfilling prophecy: the CER misdirects investment into fossil fuels, which in turn locks in the dangerously high levels of fossil fuel demand and supply that its scenarios project.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Barclays and HSBC are two of the major banks which continue to fund fossil fuel investments. A report by ShareAction has delivered a damning verdict on European banks connection to fossil fuel investments. Major European banks at the heart of continued fossil fuel support. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Fossil fuel subsidies. Finally, subsection (h) devotes attention to “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,” which are supposed to be eliminated as soon as possible. There was considerable disappointment that some of this language was not strong enough, especially the failure to require “phasing out” fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

C) of the Paris Agreement has significant implications for how the global financial system works and will be a centrepiece of the coming years. The first priority following the 2015 Paris Agreement was to clean up public financing, so Article 2.1(C) C) of the Paris Agreement. Article 2.1(C)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

For years, fossil fuel companies have socialized the costs of their pollution while privatizing the benefits. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Source: YouTube.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. We need to phase out fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the Paris Agreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C At COP26, China submitted a long-term development strategy , pursuant to Article 4(19) of the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

First: Areas of progress so far include critically important issues, but only ones that are untethered to, and don’t directly implicate, the need to reduce fossil fuel use. That is the required periodic review of whether parties are doing enough to reduce emissions in light of the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit warming. (As

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. This is a huge deal. So what do we need governments to do?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. C above preindustrial levels, the limit that island nations and allies fought for so hard in the Paris Agreement. (It It is important to note that the 1.5°

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Research from the Institute for New Economic Thinking has found that more than 60% of top oil, gas, and coal companies are not on track to reach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Read the full story at Environment + Energy Leader. degrees Celsius.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

COP is far from just a showy conference – it is an important forum that has created agreements and momentum which over the past three decades have measurably reduced the severity of climate change. Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. That draft called on “Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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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. COP28 is the first time that a final COP agreement has called upon countries to reduce their fossil fuel usage in some way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

The joint statement from the recent G7 environment and energy ministers’ conference in Japan suggests there is ambition for action in some areas – on climate-related finance and investments and on eliminating toxic chemicals, for example – but less on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and very little on eliminating plastic pollution.

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