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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward?

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Guest Contributor Veronika Bagi: Loss and Damage Finance Now! Or Not?

Legal Planet

That early proposal was not adopted, and the term “loss and damage” was first mentioned in 2007, in the outcome of COP13 in the Bali Action Plan as part of enhanced action on adaptation. . The new arrangements ought to complement the sources, funds, processes and initiatives under and outside of the Convention and the Paris Agreement.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Loss and Damage

Legal Planet

The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 Germany continued to promote the Global Shield proposal at COP27, to mixed reviews.

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No 3rd Runway at Vienna Airport Because Adverse Climate Impacts Outweigh Short-term Economic Benefits: Austrian Court (Updated)

Law Columbia

Plans for a third runway at the Vienna-Schwechat airport (pictured at right) were first submitted for review by the government of Lower Austria (one of Austria’s 9 regions) in March 2007. (Updated on June 29, 2017). The parties have six weeks to appeal the decision to Austria’s Constitutional Court.

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The Future of Carbon Capture and Sequestration

The Energy Law Blog

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Producers and governments have shown interest in CCS as it allows for the continued use of fossil fuels while reducing net carbon dioxide emissions. 585, 589 (2007). [3]