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. Meanwhile President Trump has begun the process of the U.S.

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. More than 80% of us favor building more solar power stations in California.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And he’ll pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. The transformation to an economy fueled by clean energy – across sectors – has begun, and he can’t stop it. More than 40 percent of all global power in 2023 came from renewable sources. These are reasons alone to vote for Kamala Harris.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back. Exiting the Paris Agreement. Political action is key here. Those communities already have higher pollution levels and higher death rates than average, something Trump seems happy to allow. This was another expected action.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

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. But young people are entering the ranks of those who vote in elections, and were seeing the beginnings of a real change in the political systems approach to this crisis also.

Fossil Fuels

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. And in a series of executive orders targeting Bidens clean energy strategy , the Trump administration will end new leases to offshore wind farms.

Clean Energy

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. It reiterated full support for South Africa’s energy transition and pointed out that South Africa’s JETP now has USD 12.8 billion in funding pledges from non-US donors, higher than the USD 8.5

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

residents) EO 14313: Establishing the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission (conserving wildlife while expanding hunting, fishing, and other uses).

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Climate change is overwhelmingly caused by burning fossil fuels, and the most immediate path to avert climate disaster is to stop investing in those fuels and start powering our economy with an equitable transition to renewable energy.

Fossil Fuels

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

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

Sea Level

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. Energy Mix Which sources should be part of the energy mix and which ones should be excluded?

Renewable Energy

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.

Ocean

Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

This is a very different business model than renewable energy, where it costs money upfront to build the initial infrastructure, but the sources of power, like sun and wind, flow freely and require only small amounts in ongoing costs for routine maintenance.) In contrast, its lending to renewable energy was just $5 billion in 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Recently, the CBC , working with pollster Janet Brown, released the results of its annual spring report card on Alberta’s political and economic well-being. As we move away from polluting fossil fuels, investing in renewable energy is key to a cleaner and more affordable future. A stitch in time saves $32 trillion.

Climate Change

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. Energy consumers shall be empowered, but the Council does not take an own initiative here.

Paris Agreement

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

The recommendations include possible changes to Cuban domestic policies to, among other things, encourage greater public and private investment in the country’s energy transition. But over the past 10 years, Cuba’s policymakers have identified some potential pathways towards a clean and resilient energy system.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Therefore, it is crucial to rapidly transition from the production and use of fossil fuels to sustainable renewable energy sources to reach our global climate goals so we can leave a habitable planet for future generations. Offshore wind energy is a crucial piece of the renewable energy mix.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. In Greenpeace v.

2022

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the.

Paris Agreement

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.” What can you do?

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower. No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas?

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Since the adoption of the Paris agreement, JP Morgan Chase is at the top of the list of fossil fuel bankers, financing a staggering $434 billion from 2016 through 2022. The scientists’ letter is addressed to JPMorgan Chase because of its role as the largest financer of fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris agreement.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. For years, companies outside of directly green sectors like renewable energy saw ESG roles as non-profit-generating, and those employees were put in compliance or marketing departments. The rise of ESG is changing that.

2015

Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. Private and public sector leaders will discuss the importance of making scientific results openly available in order to boost innovation, increase public consensus, and bolster political will to act. Watch the session here.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. Renewable energy policies create stronger renewable industries, which then push for even stronger policies.

2005

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When countries signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement, they made initial voluntary commitments (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) to reduce their heat-trapping emissions, and agreed to revisit them every five years to reflect the “highest possible ambition.” (see of the Paris Agreement ).

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. State Air Resources Board , No. S241948 (Cal. June 28, 2017). PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. The parallels are obvious: dramatic and sustained energy price shocks, a global food crisis, rising inflation, and the possibility of economic stagnation.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This historic funding will bolster more than 60 Energy Department programs focused on increasing system reliability and resilience and expanding access to renewable energy resources. EN: Recent reports have found that the world is on track to surpass the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 It’s a big deal.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

As William Boyd, Mary Nichols, and Julia Stein told me , clean energy manufacturing, renewable energy projects, EV sales and EV charging infrastructure are early success stories. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start. A few sectors are seeing the most progress.

Fossil Fuels