Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change. For example, the company supported politicians who opposed President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement and defended big oil companies’ roles in spreading disinformation.

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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. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

This is because more than 80 percent of the new gas-fired capacity coming online will use so-called combined-cycle technology that, because of its comparatively greater efficiency, typically results in plants running more frequently compared with older steam turbines, which make up about 78 percent of the gas-fired capacity set to retire this year.

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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. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

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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.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

C limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement, this needs to happen as soon as possible. It reminds us that the obstacles to climate action are neither physical nor technological. At this point, they remain political. To keep within the 1.5°C

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. These are the world’s biggest economies, many of them home to the finance and technologies needed to tackle the climate crisis. Despite this, energy-related CO2 emissions rebounded 5.9% across G20 countries in 2021, to above pre-pandemic levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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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]. The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. Schoenefeld, J.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. This is a huge deal. Our research shows that this transition is entirely manageable.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. The group also said that any assumptions made when preparing financial statements must be compatible with the Paris agreement. Green technology and growth: a vision we can believe in. Global goals. I think we’re pushing on an open door.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

In adopting the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement the German legislature exercised its mandate and prerogative. These rights are not violated, in view of the legislature’s wide margin of discretion; the same goes for adopting the targets of the Paris Agreement. threshold must not be passed. However, adopting a 1.5C

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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.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Specialists in law, economics, geography, philosophy, art, and other subjects provided complementary perspectives on topics such as energy governance, urban regeneration, green growth, adaptation and vulnerability, climate justice, and the political economy of climate change.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. As the market for emission-reducing technologies grows, there’s an increased incentive to invest in R&D.

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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.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Key points to the rule include changing the process from a “first-come, first-serve” to a “first-ready, first-served cluster study process”; speeding up the interconnection queue processing by loosening procedural costs and deadlines; and incorporating technological advancements in the interconnection process.

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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.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Notwithstanding all of the ways that digital technologies are transforming our lives, the deep materiality of the global economy is once again making itself known in profound and painful ways. C target embraced by the Paris Agreement. This will take a massive step up in commitments and new policies by major emitting countries.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To and China signed 9 key climate agreements to accelerate clean energy in those two countries—agreements that ultimately paved the way for the Paris agreement.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2021

The G7 said the B3W initiative will mobilise private-sector capital in areas such as climate, health and health security, digital technology, and gender equity and equality. However, the initiative lacked substance. It was not immediately clear how exactly the plan would work or how much capital it would ultimately be allocated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many announcements and side initiatives The opening days of COP28 were filled with political announcements from the high-level segment and a myriad of side initiatives, including several from the United States. And that will take political will and pressure from the voting public.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). Framework Convention on Climate Change : This is the convention behind the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015) and behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will. the Paris Agreement’s nationally determined contributions or “opt outs” under CITES or the IWC). What matters most in implementing sound climate policies is domestic politics.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

the uncertain timing and magnitude of government policies, technological innovation and consumer demand that will accelerate the transition to lower-carbon economy). Her key takeaways were (1) “[t]here is no general requirement under the securities laws to reveal all material information. and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. Even the Paris Rulebook specifies 100-year GWPs, although it also authorizes the use of other metrics (i.e., shorter time-horizon GWPs).

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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. The outliers are PVV and FvD (and recent split-off JA21).

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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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. .

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2021

From the politicisation of science to disaster preparedness and technology transfer, many of the problems highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic are the same ones hobbling the global response to the climate crisis. The politics of science. While there have been calls to delink science from politics, this misrepresents the problem.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2021

Leading climate scientists, policy-makers, industry professionals and activists have lined up to criticise the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry after he appeared on the UK’s BBC Andrew Marr Show saying that 50% of all emissions cuts will need to come from technologies we don’t yet have. Hope this is misquote.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

While the Biden Administration plans to reduce non-CO2 emissions as part of its nationally-determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, the greatest focus will be on energy-related CO2 emissions, which account for 80 percent of U.S. pledge under Paris. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

While the Biden Administration plans to reduce non-CO2 emissions as part of its nationally-determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, the greatest focus will be on energy-related CO2 emissions, which account for 80 percent of U.S. pledge under Paris. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S.

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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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