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. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. This insistence on power-sharing reflects the divided political opinions in government today, and may actually be the path forward. In some states, when the legislature created new clean energy goals they also started transmission planning to help meet those goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

oil and gas sector by 87 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, the agency said. The proposed rules, announced Friday at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, would strengthen and expand pending regulations that were first proposed in November 2021. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons.

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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. A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005).

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people. Not so in the modern day, however. Soils are becoming a true kitchen table issue.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. The first NDC was based on the second inventory, which estimated 2005 emissions in 2.1 Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC. In PSB et al.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Notably, the Philippines Supreme Court has explicitly held the CHR’s jurisdiction is only limited to investigating civil and political rights (see Simon v. The Commission’s report is unprecedented. However, this did not deter the Commission from moving forward.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. In my own microeconomic research on the climate change challenge, I have not emphasized policy priorities today because I believe that the political economy is such that global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005). Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. Opposition also decreases for another reason: Fossil fuel companies then have smaller market shares, fewer workers, and less political clout.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“The impact of groundwater pumping on basin aquifers during ongoing drought conditions is largely unknown and continued reliance may not be sustainable,” cautioned a report on the water bank published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2005.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. also indicates that enforcement of an expanded obligation depends on the political branches. 3d 745,755 (Alaska 2005). [23]. 3d 745, 755 (Alaska 2005)). [25]. He wanted the Court to order specific climate policies, [7].

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

Its prior 2005 LRDP planned only 2,600 new beds through 2021, 10,000 short of projected enrollment increases over that period, and UC constructed less than half of those, while at the same time increasing enrollment beyond the plan’s projection.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. We have been doing this GHG work since 2005.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Intriguingly, these scientific studies took on a wider political importance during the Second World War. Viewed in this way, the problem was “solved” by the Scandinavian physicists Boris Gudiksen and Åke Nordlund in 2005, who used just 3.375 million cells. But is their invocation of Kolmogorov’s argument correct? The jury is still out.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Kyle completed four tours in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2005. The beauty of nature is something that everyone can enjoy and find value in, regardless of political views. Kyle graduated from Gonzaga University as an Army Lieutenant on May 11, 2001, just four months before the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), established under a Directive of European Parliament and Council in 2005, has been the world’s largest market-based emission trading system designed to meet GHG emission reduction targets set by the Kyoto Protocol.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” only recently relinquished its infamous distinction as the leading greenhouse gas producer to China in 2005. We in the U.S. What can you do?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. percent (£1.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

British American Tobacco is drawn into Israeli damages claim Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | BMJ | November 12, 2005 British American Tobacco (BAT) has been added by the Jerusalem district court as a defendant in a multibillion dollar lawsuit over compensation for damage to members of Israel's largest health maintenance organisation.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. A fall trip to South Africa, followed closely by the holidays, made October-December something of a blur. African Penguin: The Cape.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. complaints from 1995-present day.

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