Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000. The order creates a new N.C.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

Climate litigation in the region goes back nearly two decades – the 2005 Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission (IACHR), which was dismissed, is widely considered the first rights-based climate case. The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.”

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. According to the Rhodium Group , “there was $213 billion in new clean investment across the economy—a 37% increase from the previous year and a 165% increase from five years ago.” decarbonization.

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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 ).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

A 2022 report on “decarbonisation employment” from the China-based Climate Action Youth Alliance (CAYA) found that while the emissions-related industry had come into being in 2005 with the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, its size remained small. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The City of Atlanta committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 after its leaders concluded the state of Georgia was not meeting their policy goals. In Wyoming, PacificCorp committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent of 2005 levels by 2030 and shutting down twenty of their twenty-four operating coal plants by 2038.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030? Ontario New Democratic Party: Our commitment is to reduce emissions from 2005 levels by at least 50% by 2030 , and to achieve net-zero by 2050 or earlier. . Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of Ontario: .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. The oil and gas industry is not yet sweating the competition from clean energy. Biden signed on Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Together with additional EPA pollution standards; additional agency and executive actions; state, local and regional policies; and private sector initiatives, this groundbreaking bill puts the US within striking distance of meeting our climate goal of cutting emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion. Biden has also been active in the international sphere.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. 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. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of State to produce correspondence of two officials related to climate change, the December 2016 Paris Agreement, the “legal form” of the Paris Agreement’s provisions, the Kyoto Protocol, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The UN website describes the aim of the meeting, “The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.” could cut emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Thomas Pyle is president of the Institute for Energy Research, which was formed by Charles Koch and has received donations from companies like Exxon to publish papers opposing climate science and any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. He served in the Trump administration leading the transition team at the Department of Energy.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here are a few of the notable developments: North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion. Internationally, there were lots of developments: The US rejoined the Paris Agreement and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030.

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