Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Two topics not as squarely on the agenda—but that probably should be— include the essential and seemingly perennial questions of how to increase mitigation ambition, and what to say about fossil fuels (and fossil-fuel phaseout, in particular).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Emissions cuts alone will (almost certainly) not keep the global average temperature rise below 1.5°C. via Wikimedia Commons) Carbon dioxide removal and Net Zero Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a hugely uncertain and limited resource. But some optimism remains. Gt of CO2 by 2030. What might constitute over-reliance?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Framework ’ or ‘ systemic ’ mitigation cases are those that challenge a government’s overall efforts to mitigate climate change – encompassing both challenges to the ambition of emissions reduction targets and/or their implementation. Governments have been ordered to increase or update their emissions reduction efforts (e.g.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

California has made significant strides towards reducing pollution from vehicles by adopting trailblazing policies to accelerate the adoption of both passenger and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles. Now, the proposed ACF goes a step further, and would require fleets to purchase zero-emission vehicles.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Modeling Pathways to Net Zero: A Case Study on Energy Security as the U.S. continues to decarbonize and work towards net zero, many questions must be answered: At what pace and scale will the U.S. need to deploy clean energy technologies to achieve net zero emissions? imports peaked in 2007.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. The Safeguard Mechanism covers facilities emitting over 100,000 tons of CO2 per year, which altogether accounted for around half of the countries emissions. Given Australia’s history, a critical question will be the longevity of this new scheme.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

In a new policy brief released today, my colleagues Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I argue that air districts have authority to go even further under state and federal law by adopting zero-NOx appliance standards—and that air districts should design such standards with the goals of equity and affordability in mind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in the US and the passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs produce the majority of transportation emissions. Limiting climate change will require the rapid reduction in these emissions from the vehicles we drive. global warming) emissions.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2024

The recent rulings on climate change by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are—as others have pointed out in this blog symposium —both “historic and unprecedented” for various reasons, not least regarding the question of reparation for climate change-related harm. 46 ECHR) to be taken by the Respondent” (Observations, para.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the growing urgency to address climate change, governments and companies are developing “net-zero” strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. C, which according to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), means that global emissions need to be cut in half this decade.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Phase II will include provisions governing the standard emissions factors; alternative compliance mechanisms; how to establish either hardship emission limits or compliance timelines; and exemptions. It’s not exactly profound to note that there’s a lot to do to get to net zero. I do want to pose one question, though.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 30, 2024

The stated goal of the 2022 Act is to reduce net direct greenhouse gas emissions from Maryland’s building sector for buildings that are 35,000 square feet or larger to net zero before 2040. The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 remains the law, and building owners should continue to track their GHG emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On appeal of a strike out decision, the Court gives the plaintiff “his day in court” to argue that corporates owe a common law duty of care in tort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By Sophie J. In Smith v. Fonterra will confront the difficult predicament of constructing an order that is effective in achieving that result.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines. Such a holistic perspective is important.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Now it’s on to the state Senate, where the question is: Will this be the year Minnesota sets a path toward 100-percent carbon-free electricity? From a countrywide perspective, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a study in August 2022 identifying multiple pathways to a net-zero power grid by 2035.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The aviation sector is seen as a very visible contributor of CO2 emissions globally, but will efforts to clean up the industry pay off? However, while the use of SAF can help contribute to international targets, SAF alone will not be enough to meet 2050 net-zero CO2 goals for aviation. Image: Thiago B Trevisan/Shutterstock.com.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. In addition, Kazakhstan and the U.S. In addition, Kazakhstan and the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. degrees and achieve net-zero by 2050. It also includes the carbon emissions created when consumers burn that oil. But let’s dive deeper.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

Questions should be directed to Lindsay Byron, DEP Energy Programs Office, 717-772-8951 or send email to: lbyron@pa.gov. Read more here. DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan is the world’s 5 th largest CO 2 emitter, with 85 % of emissions deriving from the energy sector, which heavily relies on the use of coal-fired power plants. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

This means that there is an upward surface flux of IR around (~398 W/m 2 ), while the outward flux at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) is roughly equivalent to the net solar radiation absorbed (~240 W/m 2 ). A sample Earth spectra taken from the NIMBUS-4 satellite in 1970 along with the theoretical blackbody emissions at 280 and 220 Kelvin.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

Uninterested This comes as the UK’s now former Minister of State for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate, and Environment, Zack Goldsmith , recently resigned in a serious attack on Sunak, arguing he was simply uninterested in reaching net-zero.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Students are encouraged to submit questions ahead of the program-- Click Here. 28-29 On Embodied Carbon - Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Building Materials [Posted: October 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest The discussion will feature Pennsylvania students and guest panelist DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We are currently undertaking a survey to assess and gauge the market uptake of greenhouse gas emission measurement, public claims, and reduction. While the world has seen a ballooning of Net Zero GHG emission commitments by government and non-state actors alike, in particular by businesses in the United States, this is all still a new idea.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. Additionally, the agencies found that the amendments could result in long-term cost savings. What’s the CES? What amendments were made to the CES?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The net-zero strategy unveiled under the leadership of Looney was largely applauded by energy transition experts and advocates and those in the clean energy investment space as one of the most ambitious in the world among any of the fossil fuel giants. In addition, it raises a significant governance question, he added.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Research finds that even if we halt heat-trapping emissions, we’ll be locked into a summer season that consumes half of the year by 2100. This is the question Justin Udo with Philadelphia’s KYW News Radio asked me after the Vice President’s announcement. What more needs to be done? Here’s my expanded, four-point answer.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

NDP MP Charlie Angus put forward the motion to bring Rich Kruger to Parliament because of comments he made this summer that, under his new leadership, Suncor’s operations would be less focused on reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and more focused on maximizing profits. That’s big Climate Villain energy.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Webinar “Are You Ready to Measure and Report Your Building GHG Emissions?” An example of what businesses are reacting to is Maryland’s new statutory mandate that buildings, commercial, multifamily, and others with a gross floor area of 35,000 square feet or more, must achieve a 20% reduction in net direct GHG emissions (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To meet net-zero emissions by 2050, it is estimated that the U.S. There's this large question of where that land is and how the environment and adjacent communities will be impacted.” The latest episode of "Growing Impact" explores the connection between the expansion of solar energy and land use.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Among many, here are some that stood out to us: Corporate Climate Accountability California moved climate accountability efforts forward in a big way with the passage of two first-in-the-nation climate disclosure bills , SB 253 (Wiener) and SB 261 (Stern) , that will force critical transparency about corporate climate emissions.

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Capaccio

MARCH 30, 2021

On 3/26/21 , Governor Baker signed comprehensive new legislation to support its commitment to Net Zero emissions by 2050, and builds on previously issued 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap and Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2030. Stay tuned for more information.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” We saw the largest number of attendees at our monthly webinar series and while we answered questions live, we had requests to share the questions. That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

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