Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

The Government of Canada has until the end of this year to set a new greenhouse gas reduction target for 2035. We need climate targets to measure progress on reducing greenhouse gas pollution. Globally countries must collectively reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. And they want to hear from you.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Ontario is failing to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is pitiful, especially because p rovinces hold sizable levers that can reduce (or increase) greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. Ontario does have a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now the Prime Minister needs to chart the pathway to reduce the industry’s emissions – which account for 26% of Canada’s domestic emissions and increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 to 2019 – all of this while most other sectors have reduced theirs. The 2030 goal for the emissions cap needs to be a 60% reduction from 2005 levels.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. It is a scientific fact that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change. The framework is by no means perfect.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The oil and gas industry, Canada’s largest and fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, has repeatedly shown its unwillingness to voluntarily reduce its own emissions. For example, the Government of Alberta has demonstrated time and time again that it puts polluter profits ahead of any effort to reduce fossil fuel pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Climate catastrophes are happening throughout our planet, and are only projected to get more intense and more frequent, unless we get a handle on addressing the leading cause of this crisis: Fossil Fuels. Emissions from the sector are rising; they have increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 levels. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. That draft called on “Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.” It is significant, however, that “fossil fuels” and “coal” finally survived in a COP text.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 million tons in 2005 to 73.09

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. Given that fossil gas will be used more and more, how long will we even have clean energy credits to sell? Meanwhile, it is leaving the public with increasing fossil gas emissions and electricity prices.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Background Information Premier Smith’s decision to place a moratorium on Alberta’s renewable energy sector, while allowing industry players in the oil and gas business to continue to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) producing projects, demonstrates a government bias against wind, solar and geothermal energy production in Alberta.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

On August 24, a coalition of fifteen organizations based in Western Pennsylvania has sent a letter to the Shapiro administration denouncing the formation of a secret committee, whose members and meeting minutes are not known to the public, in an apparent attempt to scuttle Pennsylvania’s entrance into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels. The oil and gas industry is the largest and fastest growing source of Canada’s greenhouse gas pollution. We are in the critical decade for averting further catastrophic climate disasters.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2023

Plastics are fossil fuels—they’re made using oil, gas and coal, yet we don’t often think about them as part of the climate crisis. I go back to this memory because I think it’s important to hold on to our lived experiences of a world with less plastic. Plastic is so ubiquitous; it’s sometimes hard to imagine that this crisis is new.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CO 2 emissions by up to 10 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 10, 2023

Emissions from the oil and gas industry in Canada now account for nearly 30 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. From 2005-2021, oil and gas emissions in Canada increased by 12 per cent , while other industries, such as electricity and heavy industry, reduced their own pollution during that same period.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

And since the amount of power generated by wind and solar fluctuates more than typical fossil-fuel generation, the grid needs to be ready to shift power from one area to another. To connect all that new supply to new demand, we need to upgrade our transmission system. per year—double last decade’s growth rate.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Further, it’s important to understand that this change in land use may not occur in the same area, which can benefit the greenhouse gas budgets of individual countries, while harming carbon reduction efforts globally, often at the cost of sensitive ecosystems.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. Given that fossil gas will be used more and more, how long will we even have clean energy credits to sell? Meanwhile, it is leaving the public with increasing fossil gas emissions and electricity prices.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

To adjust the focus of this picture a little closer, just our passenger cars and light trucks contribute to a whopping 58 percent of total transportation emissions, placing our car-centric society in the fossil fuel spotlight. Petroleum has accounted for more than 90 percent of transportation energy in the last 50 years.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country. At the same time, we are making progress in reducing our carbon footprint.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 The first NDC was based on the second inventory, which estimated 2005 emissions in 2.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

committed to cutting its emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. A range of state and federal policies—including the Inflation Reduction Act—currently puts it on track to cut emissions about 32-43% below 2005 levels by 2030. In its last NDC, back in 2021, the U.S. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S. Article 2.1(c)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee, on DEP’s final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Acting Secretary Negrin said Gov. The high point around staffing, I'll give you a number, was 3,124, 3,000 people back in 2005.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Session Law 2021-165 set a goal of reducing CO 2 emissions from EGUs 70% (from a 2005 baseline of 75,865,188 short tons) by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. So the law requires a balancing of consumer costs/system reliability and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Management Commission.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Those who work on soil issues have long hoped for a new study, with well-known soil scientists calling for one as early as 2005, at the government’s annual Two Sessions meetings. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“While the Build Back Better Act puts us on a solid trajectory to combat dangerous climate disruption, more is needed to achieve our national goals to reduce carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels and the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050. “As farmers do their part to save the Bay and reduce greenhouse gases?with

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. These wildfires are the result of producing and burning fossil fuels. This is a big deal.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. Meeting this target will require rapidly converting as many fossil fuel-powered activities to electricity as possible, and then generating that electricity from low-carbon and carbon-free sources… Read more →

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. John is optimistic about our future; "The share of the world population in extreme poverty is plummeting. People who used to hoe by hand now use tractors."

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. It will also need to electrify various end-use sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels (e.g.,

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