Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

For mitigation, States must: regulate, monitor and control, and require and approve environmental impact studies. Regulation includes defining a mitigation target, developing and implementing a rights-based mitigation strategy, and regulating the behavior of businesses. United States and Canada) and businesses (e.g.

Climate Change

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. Having been on the ground in Dubai last year and now in Baku for side talks on advancing methane regulations as part of the UCLA Emmett Institute’s delegation, I can confirm the atmosphere at COP29 was strange.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Trump reignites overt climate denial During his campaign, Trump sought $1 billion from oil and gas CEOs in exchange for a pledge to reverse environmental regulations and prevent new policies from being enacted. In 2017, Tillerson said he disagreed with President Trumps decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Progress Dims Almost immediately, all the hope, the delight of accomplishment, the sincere fervor of change drained from the Paris Agreement. India followed. billion metric tons.

Clean Energy

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. Regulatory rollbacks.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

So here: a look at the Trump administrations first moves in its whole-of-government approach to selling out the nation. A whole-of-government approach to selling the nation out The fossil fuel industrys wish-list is sprawling. That makes understanding the what and the why critical, to be prepared for all the attacks to come.

Fossil Fuels

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. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Trump set in motion agency efforts to rollback all Biden-era environmental regulations relating to climate change. Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. Exiting the Paris Agreement. This was expected but nonetheless significant.

Paris Agreement

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

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

Now in its 13th year of operation, the Pittsburgh 2030 District has proved that through data analysis of large buildings and city districts known in the industry as benchmarking local leaders in business, government, and nonprofits can create momentum across a community, says GBA Senior Director Ashley DiGregorio. primary energy use.

Carbon Emissions

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations? The Supreme Court upheld EPA’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases. An executive order by President Obama gave EPA authority to regulate. Section 32 of the Paris Agreement. An EPA regulation that banned strip mining. What is AB 32?

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 14, 2025

One more reason were not ready for COP30 is that only 21 countries 11% of the parties have put forward new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, as required by the Paris Agreement. Brazil is calling on local and state governments to do more, reports Matteo Civillini at Climate Home News. Will Illinois Gov.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

You may recall on inauguration day how President Trump signed 26 executive orders , 7 of which were attacks on major climate change policies, such as withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

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. The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Stay tuned.

Government

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. Corporate high emitters When a methane super-emitter is identified, the company or government who owns that site needs to take action. Science shows that keeping the 1.5

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

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

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

The Institute for Legal Reform, focused on tort reform, and the Chamber Litigation Center, which represents the Chamber in its many filings against environmental regulators and advocacy groups and has attacked climate accountability litigation , are both headed by the Chamber’s general counsel. The organization received between $2.5

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019 and again in 2020 , Shell found that CAPP was out of step with Shell’s principles because of lack of support for the Paris Agreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. Shell “supports” the Paris Agreement on climate change , limiting warming to 1.5 and Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Paris Agreement

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) Article 2.1(C) C) was less of a focus. Aligning finance with 1.5C

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recent polling demonstrates that the public wants action on sustainable finance — financial activities that take into account social, environmental, and governance factors. The desire for mandatory regulations is driven by skepticism that financial institutions would respect voluntary regulations.

Regulations

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. The Eligibility List for a given host country will be established under the corresponding implementation agreement.

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The agency is the Canada Energy Regulator, and its mandate is “advising and reporting on energy matters.” This report is used by federal and provincial governments developing public policy, energy companies making decisions about future directions, and investors trying to figure out where to put their money.

Regulations

Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

In the most significant development in international climate law since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the ICJ outlined numerous obligations that could significantly shape the contours of international environmental law and global climate governance. 74) – states must act urgently. 168-170).

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Other nongovernmental organizations have put forth even more ambitious proposals for aligning legal advice with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5º

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. Brazilian Supreme Court recognizes the Paris Agreement as a human rights treaty. By Maria Antonia Tigre. In PSB et al. In practice, the law in question is overridden by the treaty.

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