Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. is pulling out of the agreement altogether. Many bilateral and multilateral agreements have sprung up like mushrooms from these side conversations. When the annual U.N.

Rainforest

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Among the slew of executive orders President Trump passed on his first day in office was an order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement, another authorizing unlimited oil drilling, and another gutting green initiatives across the country. obligations to the Paris Agreement without Trump. Climate Alliance.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

from the Paris Agreement again. Governments and philanthropies mobilized over $2 billion in grant funding for methane reduction, and new policies and regulations have been implemented to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas and waste sectors. There was some promising news regarding methane emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Liberty Energy, the fracking corporation he heads, describes its Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) focus as delivering secure, reliable, affordable access to energy. In 2017, Tillerson said he disagreed with President Trumps decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. degrees Celsius) as something magical.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

This blog post highlights aspects of the EOs of particular interest to cities, other local governments, and community based organizations (CBOs). Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration violated the Act during his first term. Still, broader uncertainty around tax credits remains. In addition to EO No.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Hell withdraw from the Paris Agreement again, expunge the social cost of carbon, reinstitute changes in regulatory review that block new rules, and tell agencies to wipe out a lot of Biden rules. He and his appointees also conducted open warfare against career staff and tried to gag government scientists. Expanding fossil fuels.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Only 13 of the 195 signatory countries to the Paris Agreement submitted new national plans for tackling climate change by the recent deadline. withdrawing from that agreement again. State and local governments (called subnational by UN member countries) have to bear the brunt of the damage.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Sure enough on Thursday, China and the European Union joined forces to pledge to work together to slow down global heating and they called the Paris Agreement “the cornerstone of international climate cooperation,” without mentioning the US.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

government no lomger cares whether its actions impose disproportionate health burdens on poor or minority communities. This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back. This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back. Exiting the Paris Agreement.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

While it slowed down action globally and in the US, it was not as much of a travesty as predicted, mainly because it took the US three years to exit the Paris Agreement. However, throughout his time as president, one after the other, the sensible voices in his government left, mainly due to Trump firing them.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Yet Shell still touts its cornerstone climate target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 as in line with the Paris Agreement. While companies like Shell plan for increased oil and gas production, and blame customers and governments for the slow pace of the energy transition, civil society groups are increasingly growing restless.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

By Robin Pomeroy and Natalie Marchant A lot of the decisions that affect global warming pollution emissions , are not down to what the federal government in the US does. That is Al Gores assessment of the potential impact of President Donald Trumps notice to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

It has been hailed as the biggest and most significant policy framework ever approved in the US political system. Clean energy and clean tech solutions had come such a long way that it was much easier politically and economically for the Biden Administration to scale in the adoption of solar, wind, electric vehicles (EVs) and so on.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

But wartime emissions remain largely unaccounted for; they were exempt from reporting under the Kyoto Protocol, and then left to States’ discretion under the Paris Agreement. It leaves unresolved an accountability gap in climate governance at a time when military spending and operations are intensifying environmental harm.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2025

In a series of executive orders, the US will again exit from the Paris Agreement with its notice to the United Nations (UN) being crafted immediately. The government will also remove the funding to UN climate efforts. Once the notice to the UN has been filled, it will take a year to exit the Paris Agreement.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies. As that goes to show, politics can outweigh constituent interests. I also like the fact that the IRA, as I see it, lays the groundwork for future climate policy, including a carbon price at some point.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

” Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker reflects on Whitehouse’s decade of wake-up calls regarding government inaction to address the climate crisis. We’ve now entered the era of consequences of our climate negligence,” Whitehouse told her. “We’ve now entered the era of consequences of our climate negligence,” Whitehouse told her.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The impacts of the US withdrawal In March, South Africa’s government announced the cancellation of US-funded projects that were in the planning or implementation stages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of Donald Trump’s handing an ever-increasing role to Elon Musk in his government, people are right to be angry about the responsibilities and freedoms the worlds richest man can wield. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

This week in Danger Season we’re thinking about the current whiplash the nation is experiencing from both our climate and our politics, we’re looking at the gathering eastern US heat wave, and we’re thinking about who all of this hurts most. Erika Spanger and Marc Alessi contributed to this post.

Politics

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (eliminating all environmental justice programs and offices) EO 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (repealing Biden executive orders, including those relating to climate change and environmental justice).

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Last year, climate negotiators in Glasgow finalized the Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets, clearing the way for the expansion of emissions trading and carbon pricing worldwide. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 The study focused on the member states of the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement. degrees goal is threatened by political inaction.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

Climate Change

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. But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. degrees C by 2100.

Fossil Fuels

Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Spearheaded by the Republic of Vanuatu, they want the court to clarify how existing International Law can strengthen governmental action on climate change, protect public health and the environment, and save the save the Paris Agreement.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The new centre-right government in Sweden is making a big break from previous governments’ energy policies – announcing that for the first time in decades Sweden will build new nuclear reactors. The new government is a coalition of three parties; Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals.

Government

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. The company spent $6 million to lobby federal and state governments in 2020.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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 It’s also worth noting that climate goals have historically been established when political and fossil fuel industry power was central to how negotiations operate.

Fossil Fuels

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 will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. Two of the events involved striking decisions in lawsuits in other countries involving fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible. But a lot has changed since then.

Climate Change

Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

What is needed to make the Paris Agreement a success? But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs. In the paper we argue that there are, in principle, two different axes to think about governing or organizing monitoring and evaluation activities.

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