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

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell, like competitors ExxonMobil and Chevron, uses an intensity metric for measuring the global warming emissions it produces, which allows them to project reductions in their relative carbon emissions via increases in renewable power and technologies like carbon capture and storage.

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

He cancelled, for good, the long-running saga of the climate and environmentally destructive Keystone XL pipeline and then integrated climate action into every element of government departmental work following another series of executive orders. First and foremost, the science to act urgently on climate was even more potent than previously.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

In terms of the IRAs strengths, I personally really like the expenditure on nascent technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), direct air capture, and CCS pipelines. These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies. Given that the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

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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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. It is presented as a state-media publication platform. Many might not know this, but Musk did not create Tesla.

Fossil Fuels

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

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The net effects will depend on how people and enterprise respond to these incentives, what technological improvements occur, how fast we learn to do better etc. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments? Modeling the impacts of all this is hard. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

Paris Agreement

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles.

Climate Change

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. The technology to keep the planet under 1.5

Fossil Fuels

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

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

Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

Government

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 Instead, ExxonMobil prefers a method called the Life Cycle Approach, which gives credit for “negative emissions” technologies like CCS and reforestation. 2023 will be a crucial juncture in a long, bumpy trip.

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

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

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 By Anders Lorenzen.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. The Kyoto and Paris agreements are each separate treaties adopted under the FCCC.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2023

But the Paris Agreement actually only specifies that global aggregate residual emissions be in balance with sinks. Nonetheless, the UK government recently announced its intention to integrate carbon removals into its established emissions trading scheme. The diversity of schemes already in place tells us that much.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. So we need to deliver on all of the wonderful words written down and deploy the technologies that we have. Courtesy: Arpad Horvath.

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Frontiers

JUNE 9, 2022

To recover economically, many governments worldwide have invested in recovery plans to stimulate the economy and support employment. At that time, governments had announced numerous recovery measures, but the focus was mostly on economic recovery in general.” A strong green recovery program.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2023

These regulations are intended to encourage refiners to innovate and invest their own funds into cleaner fuels, technologies and processes. These regulations play a crucial role in Canada’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fulfill commitments under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.

Paris Agreement

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. The world is moving away from fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

Renewable Energy

Physics World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

OVO also looks at kitting people’s homes out with electric vehicle chargers, using vehicle-to-grid technology that allows cars to export energy back into the grid when local demand increases. If I find that energy storage is not very profitable, then it’s important for government organizations to know that,” she explains.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 25, 2025

The specific shape this enhanced due diligence standard takes depends on particular risks, the degree of vulnerability of affected persons, and evolving scientific and technological knowledge (para. degree goal of the Paris Agreement. Such expansion directly contradicts scenarios aligned with the 1.5-degree

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report published today by the Sabin Center examines the laws governing international transport of carbon dioxide for sequestration. In such a complex setting, Chapter 3 focuses on international agreements that may affect the cross-border transportation of carbon dioxide for sequestration.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. In the run-up to COP26, the UK has been working behind the scenes with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. Green technology and growth: a vision we can believe in.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Due to this unchecked increase in emissions from the oil and gas sector, combined with public pressure from environmental activists, in 2021 the Government of Canada finally committed to limit oil and gas emissions at a pace and scale needed to keep global average temperatures to below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The stocktake of G20 climate action is outlined in the latest annual report from Climate Transparency, an international partnership of organisations including Climate Analytics, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and the Berlin Governance Platform. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes.

Fossil Fuels

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy is also important for industries that struggle with technological limitations in achieving a 1.5°C–aligned The relevant CFPP owner has a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As an organization committed to protecting the environment, caring for our ocean and fighting climate change, Ocean Conservancy remains committed to helping close the gap among governments, community organizations and the private sector. What are Ocean Conservancy’s priorities for this agreement?

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