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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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2023

New federal regulations, the Clean Fuel Regulations, have come into force that require oil refiners to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These regulations are intended to encourage refiners to innovate and invest their own funds into cleaner fuels, technologies and processes.

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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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Arnold Porter

MARCH 15, 2023

She frequently represents clients in the fuels, energy, automobile, and manufacturing industries before the Environmental Protection Agency and California regulators. Grey also advises clients on climate risk analysis and disclosure and other environmental, social, and governance issues.

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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. tonnes of CO2 per tonne of crude steel (tCO2/tcs) – significantly higher than the global average of 1.85

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Enough research has shown that Collective Green Action requires the stakeholders to work together, to build technological synergies based on transparency and a public-private partnership that goes beyond borders and profit accumulation. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

Canada has an opportunity and a responsibility to take a leading role in the global clean energy transition and it starts with the upcoming Energy Futures report from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER). After the billions of dollars already spent by governments globally on CCUS, studies show that the technology has failed to reduce emissions.

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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. Implications for China. What are the implications of the California experience for China’s national carbon ETS?

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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. To keep within the 1.5°C At this point, they remain political.

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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. However, majors such as Exxon, Chevron and Shell are joining a broader push to make the requisite technology cheaper and more efficient.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It is evident that current policies regulating the oil and gas industry’s emissions are not up to the task, because the industry’s emissions have continued to rise. public tax dollars) to finance speculative, costly and hard to scale technologies like carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).

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

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

In its pledge to the Paris Agreement on climate change, known as a nationally determined contribution (NDC), Argentina committed to limiting its net emissions in 2030 to 349 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. China Electric Power Equipment and Technology (CET) also agreed last year to invest US$1.1

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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. However, majors such as Exxon, Chevron and Shell are joining a broader push to make the requisite technology cheaper and more efficient. 1] [link]. [2]

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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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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2021

Implementing the emissions reductions policies needed to achieve the target would allow the Canadian economy to grow by 19 per cent of GDP over the next decade thanks to innovation in low-carbon technology and transformation of existing industries, and Canadians would save on energy and enjoy healthier communities!

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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

Global shipping emissions need to reach net-zero by mid-century to achieve the Paris Agreement goals. These aim to accelerate the uptake of zero-emissions fuels on vessels travelling between major shipping hubs and establish the necessary regulation, infrastructure and technology. “In above pre-industrial levels.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

If we rely only on the current climate commitments of the Paris Agreement, temperatures can be expected to rise to 3.2°C Many economists believe technological change is the foundation of our high energy societies. How the “earth’s systems” regulate our ability to exist and thrive on planet earth has been less understood.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

subsidies, publicly-funded research, and regulation) is necessary for the de-carbonization of the energy sector. He suggested that governments should focus less on cooperation and more on coordination with respect to technological solutions, such as the development of carbon air capture technologies.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

This blog post discusses these plans by (i) looking at the underlying challenges, (ii) reviewing the scope of the strategy, (iii) analyzing the current regulations, and (iv) assessing the proposed measures to spur the development of carbon management infrastructure within the EU.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These decisions help implement and operationalize the text of the Paris Agreement, much like regulations clarify statutory law. Unabated fossil fuel projects mean those not mitigated with carbon capture technologies. Paris Agreement Negotiation Developments. Leaders Summit Developments. Loss and Damage.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s also difficult to predict the future of ecosystems, future energy prices, technological changes, and a host of other factors relevant to environmental law. Climate change is well understood in some ways, but it will set off a chain of reactions that we only partly understand.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), provide policymakers, industry participants, and the public with tools to chart a pathway to prepare the offshore oil and gas industry for a Paris Agreement–compatible phase-out of fossil fuel extraction.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The shift will only occur when government regulations hold carbon-emitting companies accountable for emission costs. In twelve concise chapters, and running just over 200 pages, Rathi’s effort is to show that “business as usual” no longer holds in a world that is looking at a looming set of climate catastrophes.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 21, 2022

We have the technology to replace coal with cheaper, healthier, and cleaner renewable energy. degree goal of the Paris Agreement. A 2023 deadline gives the federal government a year to develop and implement new regulations – an ambitious but doable timeline. There is no excuse to continue exporting coal until 2030.

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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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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

However, dates identified in regulators’ agendas often slip for a variety of reasons, including competing regulatory priorities and lengthy pre-proposal development (which seems likely here, particularly on a climate change disclosure proposal). This should include both (a) physical risks (i.e., and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Whether any such gaps exist in IEL is doubtful, since ordinarily the absence of a legal rule regulating an issue (say, plastics pollution or protection of a species) does not create a gap in the law; it simply means that, legally, states are free to act as they choose. The Global Pact could change this. That is why U.S. A return to the U.S.

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Acoel

MARCH 7, 2022

And now, with our resolution to make a resolution, it appears we may soon have such an agreement. 2 and 3 could possibly be approached with existing Clean Water Act authority and the Trash Free Waters Program , with possible assistance from litigation intended to achieve enforcement of existing legislation and regulation.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than four months from the release of the Paris agreement, Professor Mark Latham does not share the optimism expressed by others. Finally, treaties, laws, and regulations simply cannot provide the long-term solutions required to address the global dilemma known as climate change. COP 21: A Kyoto Protocol Redux?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

12, 2015, 195 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement creating a firm foundation for meaningful action on climate change through. The agreement, which entered into force on Nov. President Trump called the agreement unfair and harmful to the American economy. deep decarbonization. By contrast, former President.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

On January 21, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he will donate $100 million to the “best” carbon capture technology, chosen through a competition whose details and judging criteria are yet to be announced. In addition, recently passed federal regulations are expected to encourage more private investment in CCS projects.

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