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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. The biggest obstacle on the global stage is urgency, or lack thereof.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 5, 2024
There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Law Columbia
MAY 8, 2024
Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. The ABA House of Delegates, the ABA’s policy making body, adopted resolutions urging action on climate change in 2008 and 2019. In the U.S.,
A Greener Life
JUNE 24, 2022
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.
Clean Energy Law
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023).
Vermont Law
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. Most recently, on September 3, 2016 the United States and China honored their earlier agreement by depositing their instruments of ratification with the United Nations to.
Vermont Law
MARCH 22, 2016
Less than four months from the release of the Paris agreement, Professor Mark Latham does not share the optimism expressed by others. 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.
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