Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The recent announcement from GFANZ that strips a requirement for financial institutions to commit to UN-backed criteria clearly illustrates that the current system of self-regulation is failing. New regulations are required to protect our climate and our financial system. Empower regulators to tackle greenwashing.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This group of nearly all the world’s nations says that it: [R]ecognizes the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5 °C Non-CO2 greenhouse gases. In a fourth significant subsection, section 28 highlights the role of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide.

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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. Why financial regulation? The government sets regulations to keep Canadians safe.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I’m attending along with a delegation of UCLA Law students and colleagues here to follow a range of issues, from methane regulation to China’s global role to regenerative agricultural practices. Second, and by contrast an area of significant continued disagreement, concerns the Global Stocktake.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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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. In practice, the law in question is overridden by the treaty. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change?

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2024

A key and underrated aspect of the recent triad of climate rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is that the ECtHR has brought to the fore the role of trade-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in states’ carbon footprints. Embedded Emissions and International Trade Production is a crucial source of anthropogenic GHGs.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. .

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

According to the Court, Switzerland failed to comply with this obligation and exceeded its margin of appreciation by not meeting its past greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and allowing for “critical lacunae” in its regulatory framework. The Court also found a violation of Article 6 ECHR, the right of access to court.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The trio wants to submit an Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) update to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2020, in line with EU obligations under the Paris agreement. However, this shall only be done `after a thorough impact assessment´( p.18

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. But these vehicles are killing our planet. Unfortunately, transportation lobbying is preventing meaningful change.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.)

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. Most recently, on September 3, 2016 the United States and China honored their earlier agreement by depositing their instruments of ratification with the United Nations to.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. We have only turned down the tap slightly.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Some companies may also carry substantial reputational, regulatory and legal risks after years of significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, blocking climate policy and misleading the public about the harm caused by their products. Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) – $204.5 billion AUM.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

However, existing legal frameworks were not designed to regulate ocean CDR and, in some cases, unnecessarily or inappropriately restrict needed research. Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent by 2030.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The claim is grounded on the Paris Agreement and the German Climate Protection Act (KSG). Germany is constitutionally obliged to contribute – commensurate with its share of global greenhouse gas emissions – to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and, ultimately, achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The plaintiffs in DUH v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. There’s a new informal international agreement to limit methane emissions, and a still-unresolved effort to put a charge on methane emissions into the forthcoming reconciliation bill.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. By Romany M. While the U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 7, 2022

commitments to the Paris Agreement calls for an 80% reduction of electric power greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. State utility regulators may frown at the rate consequences of such large cost recovery increases. Georgetown Law Center, 1977) is an advisor to several international energy unions. The author (B.A.,

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

To borrow a page from his playbook, let’s consider a bold, “all-in” strategy to combat climate change – one that includes aggressive and timely actions by the states to abate greenhouse gas emissions. These plans typically include greenhouse gas reduction goals and myriad policy options for achieving those goals.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last several years, many investors, regulators and other stakeholders have increasingly sought environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures from public companies. These stakeholders seek to require companies to measure, manage and then disclose ESG-related factors in their public filings.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

The SEC also required registrants to address the material effects of compliance with environmental laws and describe their human capital resources to the extent material to an understanding of the business. Her key takeaways were (1) “[t]here is no general requirement under the securities laws to reveal all material information.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

Trump recently told Big Oil executives over dinner that they should give him $1 billion in campaign donations because he planned to immediately reverse climate regulations, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported. It includes only completed actions, not proposed regulations. International January 20, 2021. April 4, 2024.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2024

States must also have adequate intermediate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and pathways (e.g., Carbon budgets are used in two senses in the climate law and policy world. That is both a weakness of the Paris Agreement but also, some would say, its strength. 550, 569-573).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2024

Switzerland is a striking example of the Paris effect: the influence of the non-binding collective goals of the Paris Agreement (PA) on the interpretation of domestic constitutional law or international human rights law in climate litigation. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). According to Art.

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