Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago just released its Draft 2022 Climate Action Plan (CAP), an update of the city’s 2008 CAP to reduce citywide emissions 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. Chicago’s new CAP aims to remedy those problems and chart an equitable path to cut the city’s carbon emissions by at least 60 percent by 2040.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

One way of getting a handle on the amount of harm, though, is to assume that if Bush had kept his promise, emissions during his presidency would have declined as much as they did under his successor Obama. True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. billion tons per year.

2010

Environmental News Bits

MAY 13, 2022

Norfolk Southern has launched a new online carbon calculator to help customers measure and mitigate carbon emissions resulting from their supply chain decisions.

2008

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The court found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 ( CCA ). It requires the UK Government to set, and meet, legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions. The NZS was adopted in October 2021 under s.13

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

Germany has enshrined a 55 per cent greenhouse gas reduction target by 2030 in relation to 1990 levels in binding federal legislation (the “Klimaschutzgesetz”), and the UK has included the target to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 (100% relative to 1990 levels) in the 2008 Climate Act.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Committed to fostering sustainable practices, PWSA has been an active participant in WPEC's clean energy initiatives since 2008. Additionally, this agreement further safeguards the region’s energy needs by providing a long-term hedge against rising energy prices. Visit the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority website for more information.

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The property is also within one of the state’s largest blocks of unfragmented forest; large connected forests store large amounts of carbon and help combat the effects of climate change. The Conservancy has been protecting and restoring land in the Bennett Branch corridor since 2008, with more than 8,300 acres protected in Bennetts Valley.

Conservation

Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

It was expected to set the stage for a five percent reduction in carbon emissions that would occur beginning in 2008 through 2012, based on 1990 emission levels. The only problem, however, is that the Kyoto Protocol didn’t work to reduce overall global carbon emissions.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Nuclear Power

Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2012

Second, the plaintiffs asserted that New York’s participation in RGGI amounts to an unconstitutional tax not authorized by the legislature, because requiring power companies to pay for their carbon emissions imposes costs that consumers then absorb. Third, the plaintiffs contended that the RGGI program is “arbitrary” and “capricious.”

2005

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

Since 2008, the Higher Education Climate Consortium of Pittsburgh has played a critical role in bringing the Pittsburgh region’s higher education institutions together around climate action, while also putting intentionality behind advancing campus goals individually and collectively, to take advantage of city-wide scale and opportunity.

2008

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt Doing more with less is the best solution to many of our problems.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Anastario, et. OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, 1437. Rainey & G.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Furthermore, the specific effects of carbon emissions on global climate change are also. would suggest increasing the price of carbon. jointly committed. Clean Power Plan.

Paris Agreement

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Notable examples include: The World Bank (through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) issued its first green bond in 2008 with $440 M; The African Development Bank (ADB) issued a half a billion USD green bond in October 2013.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2008 an English jury acquitted six Greenpeace activists claiming the defense after the activists attempted to shut down a prominent nearby coal-fired powerplant. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. 10, 2008), [link]. in some way. alleviate or reduce the risk. reasonable.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. EN: Energy prices have gone up dramatically in the last year. And these higher energy prices drive inflation.

Electricity

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. About 22 percent of global CO2 emissions are associated with exported goods. As a result, voluntary approaches have dominated, such as the United Nations Global Compact. The Global Pact could change this.

Law

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon.

2016

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] could reduce carbon emissions 42 percent and generate 70 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. trillion. [25] 18] Michael Greenstone et al.,

Electricity

Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

Sustainable energy – without the hot air (2008). The authors dig into critical nature restoration practices and explain the roles of mangroves and peat bogs, which can be major carbon sinks. It shows not only the possibility of cutting significantly our carbon emissions but also how we could harness the power of finance to do so.

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The good news is that recent and historical events show that economic growth can actually lower carbon emissions. Carbon emissions have been declining in the US for nearly a decade and a half thanks to the cheap natural gas, which made electricity cheaper than it otherwise would have been.

2020

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral thing to do, the best economic choice, and the fastest and easiest way to halve our emissions.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Black carbon’s lifetime is on the order of days to a couple weeks, which is about 0.004% of the lifetime of other pollutants like CO 2 (which has a lifetime of 300 – 1000 years). This means that if we focus on limiting black carbon emissions, we will see very fast improvements in our atmosphere and health. link] Evans, M.,

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Conservation Leadership - 2008 to 2020: -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Conservation

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

crops declined 18% between 1980 and 2008 and is today 80 percent lower than their 1972 peak. [17] 39] If everyone followed a vegan diet, which excludes not only meat but also eggs and dairy products, land-based emissions could be cut by 70 percent by 2050, said IPCC. [40] 5 (2008): 985–997, [link]. [73] 74] “This occurs because.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Since 2008, RGGI states successfully cut power sector emissions in half, reduced electricity prices, and outpaced the nation in economic growth, all while creating $4 billion in net economic gains, and nearly 50,000 job years of employment. RGGI has more than a long history of economic success.

Natural Gas

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2008, there were 400,000 with over 90% of them in captive herds with a gradual increase in wild herds of both plains and woodland bison. It is also believed that the spread of tree canopy has accelerated the warming already being triggered by carbon emissions (35). Their status today is “Near Threatened”. Bat Conservation.

Conservation