Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Outline of a Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Since 2006, the IPCC has provided methodologies that governments around the world use to estimate their greenhouse gas emissions. The IPCC will issue a call for authors in the upcoming weeks with expected publication of the report in the second half of 2027.

Climate Change

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. Warming to date – SR1.5 used a 0.97°C Online].

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government. The Federal Highway Administration’s greenhouse gas performance measure, finalized in late 2023, is one example of this data-driven approach.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. Mann, and K.A.

2020

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). 2020) or Sadai et al. Marshall, M. Russell, L.S. Nazarenko, Y. Kostov, G.A. Schmidt, and J. 47, 2020.

Sea Level

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rind, "How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Thomson, "Dependence of global temperatures on atmospheric CO 2 and solar irradiance", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. 8370-8377, 1997. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

2005

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC has repeatedly shown major instabilities in recent Earth history , for example during the Last Ice Age, prompting concerns about its stability under future global warming, see e.g. Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. 2006), indicating a model bias toward a monostable AMOC.

Ocean

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

Greenhouse

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now).

Greenhouse

HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. Alexander, P.,

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

destroys many of the existing “green” building standards that municipalities use to make new homes that are cheaper for tenants or purchasers to heat and cool – and which are vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. . SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . million homes would be created there, province-wide . The amendment to s.

Conservation

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? Greenhouse gas emissions are not actually measured or counted on a building by building basis, such is not commercially practicable; rather GHG emissions are calculated.

Law

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure. the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act).

Law

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . It is also because reducing car trips is vital to meeting Ontario’s obligations to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions before it is too late. Below is a detailed analysis of Bill 23. BACKGROUNDER: A SCHEDULE BY SCHEDULE ANALYSIS OF THE BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BILL 23. The amendment to s.

Conservation

Earthava

JUNE 1, 2021

Discovered in 2006, Hyperion reaches 115.85 However, more greenhouse gases escaping into the atmosphere could enable Redwoods to grow quicker. When settlers arrived in the late 1700’s the exploitation of the area began. Only five percent of the original old-growth forests are left. Hyperion – The Tallest Tree in the World.

Atmosphere

Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

By imposing a daily fee on cars built before 2006, the LEZ changes behaviors encouraging the use of newer cleaner vehicles, and reducing tailpipe global warning gases which in turn reduces broader air pollution and its associated health risks. The webinar is complimentary, but you must register here.

Greenhouse

HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Science 2006 , 313 (5789), 940–943. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. Forest Ecology and Management 2013 , 294 , 54–61. Hidalgo, H.

Carbon Dioxide

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”.

Regulations

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So Flix do Xingu, in the Amazon state of Par, is a place of superlatives: it is the municipality with the second largest annual greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, the second highest rate of deforestation over the last 15 years, and the largest cattle herd in the country. This municipality is also a symbol of Pars broader condition.

Deforestation

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. 109, quoting R v Rimmington [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 1 AC 459. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

Law

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. This is when the highly reflective properties of dark-coloured solar panels lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Article III, Section 32 of the Pennsylvania Constitution has been likened to the Equal Protection clause of the United States Constitution as it " has been recognized as implicating the principle ' that like persons in like circumstances should be treated similarly by the sovereign ” ”. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. Commonwealth , 899 A.2d

Regulations

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. They alleged that the standards could reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 26 million metric tons and save $24 billion over 30 years.

2017

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And dormant Commerce Clause challenges have similarly failed in federal court challenges to a host of California measures designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions: CARB’s low carbon fuel standard; greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions from cars and light trucks sold in California; CARB’s cap-and-trade emissions program; etc.

Law

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 28, 2022

The 179D commercial buildings energy efficiency tax deduction has since 2006 enabled building owners to claim a $1.80 Significantly, since 2006 there has been a lifetime cap for this deduction of $1.80 per square foot tax deduction (i.e., Again, on a sliding scale this increase is $2.50 a square foot). a square foot (again, now $1.88

2006

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2020

Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. al, “Preliminary Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2020, Rhodium Group, January 12, 2021. [49] 50] Patel, S.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

He joined regional leadership in 1999, became executive VP Production in 2006, and President of Exxon Production and VP of Exxon Corp in 2008. He then rose through the ranks at Exxon during the time when the company was successfully suppressing and denying climate science and spending big on climate denial and political obstruction.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

California’s lead climate and air quality agency published a comprehensive draft plan yesterday for how the state could reach its carbon neutrality goals by no later than 2045. The plan also offers a model for policy planning and analysis that other jurisdictions may want to consider. [ The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan?

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. In 2022, the Maryland legislature enacted the Climate Solutions Now Act (SB 528) which mandates a 60% reduction in the state’s GHG emissions by 2031 relative to 2006 levels and net zero GHG emissions by 2045.

Electricity

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. With an estimated 2.5 According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

Air Pollution

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Relying on the Climate Accountability Institute’s Carbon Majors research, the municipalities allege that the defendants were responsible for 40.01% of all global industrial greenhouse gas emissions from 1965 to 2017, and that these collective emissions were a “substantial factor in the increase in intensity of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season.”

Fossil Fuels

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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