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Legal Planet
JULY 5, 2023
According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 13, 2023
trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement. 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. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021.
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Law Columbia
APRIL 21, 2023
Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. International agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, and domestic legislation in the U.S.
Legal Planet
MAY 20, 2025
climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belm in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations. Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 2, 2022
That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy. At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P.
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?
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Peruvian Youth Filed Action Against Government Demanding Action on Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest.
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