Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 20, 2021

During the three major UN climate summits in the past 12 years, Copenhagen in 2009, Paris in 2015 and now Glasgow in 2021 climate coverage and interest in the issue has accelerated in the run-up to the event. After Paris, it dropped and then plateaued due to the signing of the Paris Agreement.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Many scientists, including the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, have endorsed additional research into these and other climate intervention techniques due to concerns that current pledges are not sufficient to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C 2009, February 19). C temperature target.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The dialogue will provide opportunities to share lessons learned and challenges faced, as well as include ocean solutions in country commitments under the Paris Agreement. degree reduction targeted in the Paris Agreement, let alone the follow-through it takes to meet existing commitments. © Robyn Stegman.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When countries signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement, they made initial voluntary commitments (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) to reduce their heat-trapping emissions, and agreed to revisit them every five years to reflect the “highest possible ambition.” (see of the Paris Agreement ).

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the Oversight Committee, ExxonMobil has spent $68 million to advertise its algae biofuel research, nearly a quarter of what the company reportedly spent since 2009 on the research itself (which is a tiny fraction of what ExxonMobil still spends on developing oil and gas). Shell is a pro with these tactics.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 16, 2017

Found on wikipedia, this is a 2009 figure so to-date numbers would be much much higher…). It is focusing on the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement. million people.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. But this number pales in comparison to what the latest research tells us is needed.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. For example, in 2019, the parties to the LP agreed to allow the provisional application of a 2009 amendment allowing the export of carbon dioxide for sub-seabed storage (more on that here ). There is growing consensus that a variety of CDR approaches will be required.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Back in April 2009, the EU adopted the CCS-Directive , a legal framework for the regulation of CCS by Member States that aims to achieve the environmentally safe storage of CO2 through siting, permitting, monitoring and liability requirements for storage sites.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Under the Paris Agreement , nations agreed to set a new climate finance target by 2025 – a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). billion of the USD 115.9

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. while GDP grew too.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It is only in the penultimate chapter, on Unilever’s transformation under the leadership of its CEO Paul Polman between 2009 and 2019, that the business case for climate change is really made.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

While the Biden Administration plans to reduce non-CO2 emissions as part of its nationally-determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, the greatest focus will be on energy-related CO2 emissions, which account for 80 percent of U.S. pledge under Paris. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

While the Biden Administration plans to reduce non-CO2 emissions as part of its nationally-determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, the greatest focus will be on energy-related CO2 emissions, which account for 80 percent of U.S. pledge under Paris. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

12, 2015, 195 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement creating a firm foundation for meaningful action on climate change through. The agreement, which entered into force on Nov. President Trump called the agreement unfair and harmful to the American economy. deep decarbonization. By contrast, former President.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries. signs (but never ratifies) Kyoto Agreement. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Lawsuit Sought to Compel Response to Petition for Reconsideration of 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. 15,2 2009). Plan B Earth Sued UK Government for Human Rights Harms Stemming from Failure to Meet Paris Agreement Commitments. They also opposed a motion by conservation groups to intervene in the case.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. Department of State to produce correspondence of two officials related to climate change, the December 2016 Paris Agreement, the “legal form” of the Paris Agreement’s provisions, the Kyoto Protocol, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The UN website describes the aim of the meeting, “The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.” between FY 2009 and 2020. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland. could cut emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. increase.

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