Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Otherwise national pledges to address climate change in the spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement will not build sufficient global trust. The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a shift towards countries making emission reduction pledges known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and a new Transparency Framework (Article 13).

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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 Coal clearly does not have the same clout as oil and gas, either in domestic politics or international negotiations. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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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.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We see here that the political economy in both countries is shifting in directions ever more favorable to this move to rapid renewable energy deployment. Some analysts are predicting that as China’s rate of renewable energy deployment exceeds the rate of energy demand growth it will lead to reduced USE of coal-fired power plants.

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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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

118 & 542), and the often inadequate action taken to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions on the other. Despite these crucial nuances in the “ terms of the treaty ”, the Court refers to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement as “international commitments undertaken by the member States” (para. 541–549).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C C of warming?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). All this can be explained by physical processes and an enhanced greenhouse effect.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

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? In this way, local politics are actively engaged on the international problem of climate change. By Professor Tracy Bach. Follow the journey. till its finish!

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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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. Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all. Rejoining the Paris Agreement and Making Waves at COP26. voters supporting participating in the agreement.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. The IPCC could have declared that limiting average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 In fact, it sort of did. “In

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement? Why is 1.5C so important?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. Green Shipping.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The success of the Paris Agreement depends on the effective monitoring of climate policy measures. Political scientists at TU Darmstadt explain in a new study what it takes to achieve this. Schönefeld explains: “Monitoring systems require resources, reliable institutional frameworks and committed political stakeholders.”.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

In Wyoming, PacificCorp committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent of 2005 levels by 2030 and shutting down twenty of their twenty-four operating coal plants by 2038. Support for renewable energy crossed the partisan aisle, a rarity in today’s highly polarized politics. Luckily, this was more an exception than a rule.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement. As Henk Ovink, the Netherlands’ special envoy for international water, put it, “The moment you want to bring water to a political table, there is no political table.”.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They include, but are not limited to, altering rainfall and monsoon patterns, damaging the ozone layer, increasing global conflicts, and – most unacceptable of all – giving political cover for fossil fuel industries to continue polluting rather than cut greenhouse gas emissions. If we overshoot the 1.5

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

For example, Cuba committed to generating 24% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 as part of the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Policymakers have subsequently announced their intention to increase renewable electricity generation to 37% by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Thomas Pyle is president of the Institute for Energy Research, which was formed by Charles Koch and has received donations from companies like Exxon to publish papers opposing climate science and any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. She served as Chief of Staff to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in the Trump administration.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

Greenhouse gas monitoring – and increasingly climate policy monitoring, meaning the continuous tracking of policies with indicators – has existed since the early 1990s – and is thus a long-standing practice.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. This blog consists of three parts.

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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 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” On a per capita basis, we in the U.S. What can you do?

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and consits of heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission. The three countries that will take over the presidency from 1 July 2020 drew up a unified action programme for the coming years.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

According to the applicants, the unlawful interference consisted of executive inaction in the area of climate protection, respectively by not taking mitigation and adaptation measures according to the obligations under the Paris Agreement. 2022 Prague Municipal Court Decision.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Political controversies and fear of litigation may have played a role. Politics aside, the Biden Administration may have felt forced to approve this project. But this approval goes directly against the pledge Biden made under the Paris Agreement to cut U.S. emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I should note that we only discussed domestic policy, not foreign affairs moves such as exiting the Paris Agreement. In the final days of the Trump Administration, Congress actually passed a constructive law requiring EPA to cut emissions of HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas. I’ll follow the same organization today. Legislation.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That increase will breach the targets agreed by the 2015 Paris climate agreement set at COP21 and bring widespread devastation and more instances of extreme weather. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. There has never been stronger evidence that we need to act now and together,” Hardaker added.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. greenhouse gases. pledge under Paris. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions stood at roughly 6.0 gigatons (Gt).

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. greenhouse gases. pledge under Paris. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions stood at roughly 6.0 gigatons (Gt).

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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. West European Politics, doi: [link]. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 173–91. Schoenefeld, J. J., & Knodt, M.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

The work was initiated by Alexander Hristov , distinguished professor of dairy nutrition, in 2015 when he was the chair of the Feed and Nutrition Network of the 35-country Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. degrees Fahrenheit. Ruminants provide about half the animal protein produced by livestock.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 9, 2021

Only pulling the emergency brake right now on greenhouse gas emissions can stop the planet from heating to a dangerous level by the end of the century, the scientists’ report concluded. .

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