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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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

With economic growth have come carbon emissions. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

In terms of the economy, Nigeria experienced a surge of growth at the beginning of this century, averaging over 8% from 1999 to 2010. This is yet one more reason why curbing global carbon emissions is of the utmost urgency. Sluggish economic growth is one reason why Nigeria may have trouble adapting. Download as PDF

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"As we pursue our goals, we're investing in the research and development of clean energy solutions that will enable us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, and we're committed to ensuring a balanced, responsible and just transition to economy-wide decarbonization."

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

PPL has set a clear goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with interim reduction targets of 80 percent from 2010 levels by 2040 and 70 percent by 2035. Celsius over pre-industrial levels and aligned with the United States' commitments to the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

The cost savings come in addition to economic benefits and reduced carbon emissions. The 534GW of renewable capacity added in emerging countries since 2010 at lower costs than the cheapest coal option is reducing electricity costs by around $32 billion every year. . Dramatic improvements of renewable energy technologies.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In Colorado, renewable energy generating capacity has more than quadrupled since 2010 [2]. The point here is that if we care about reducing carbon emissions and energy costs, efficiency upgrades can often be the easiest and most cost-effective way to make a meaningful difference.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“The use of SAF is expected to contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net-zero in 2050,” says Albert Tjoeng, head of corporate communications for the IATA, which defines a SAF as a non-fossil fuel that has the potential to generate lower carbon emissions than conventional kerosene in its life cycle.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The court found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. 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 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 ( CCA ).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Grist said, "These leaders have pushed back against harmful industries (and won), cut carbon emissions from hospitals, advanced wildfire solutions from Hawaii to California, and brought together unlikely coalitions to break ground on clean energy networks. Prospectors have been drilling in Pennsylvania since the late 1850s.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions. Establishing the true cost of carbon emissions.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Ecological Economics 69 , 2060–2068 (2010). Environmental Science & Policy 13 , 785–792 (2010). Scale Carbon Emissions. . & Social Affairs, P. Houghton, R. Reuters (2021).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Since 2010, WCU has cut energy costs by millions of dollars, lowered per capita carbon emissions by more than a third, and significantly reduced the environmental impacts of its campus operations.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Roughly half of production emissions come from carbon-intensive input materials and metals, and the other half is due to the coal-burning electricity mix of manufacturing countries like China, Korea and Japan where most batteries are made. Most of the carbon emissions from cars come from fuelling them up with gas and driving them.

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Today, 40 percent of our nation’s electricity comes from clean, carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, hydropower, wind, and solar energy. And, thanks largely to the leadership of EEI’s member companies, carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector are at their lowest level in more than 40 years.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. In 2007 and 2010 , for example, Costa Rica carried out its first debt-for-nature swaps with the United States.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It crashed the 10 GW barrier in 2010. This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. In 2016, the world added 138.5 GW of renewables to the grids. And now it’s set to reach 100 GW this year!”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbon emission reduction goals. EN: We have already seen a great deal of progress.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

Voters in Los Angeles County recognized the critical need to address climate change when they overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 23 — the 2010 ballot measure that would have suspended California’s landmark global warming law. In fact, many people, millions, are suffering already.”. But wind is one of the cheapest ways to do it cleanly.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. It is also worth noting that these nuclear plants are providing this reliable, around-the-clock power without releasing carbon emissions." Read more here.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While intended to offer a small amount of flexibility to building owners who might have trouble complying with Local Law 97’s emissions limits, with these rules they risk falling into the same traps that have ensnared other carbon pricing efforts. The second is that the price is too low. Additionality.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 117 (15), 8254-8262. OECD (2022).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But, the idea of a shared benefit—both to the world and Brazil—is a paradox developing and developed nations have struggled with concerning their global commitment to reduce overall carbon emissions because, as Bolsonaro implied during his remarks, overly restrictive environmental regulations could impair a nation’s economic growth and development.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 13, 2024

This structure has inspired new car tyres that aim to reduce the risk of aquaplaning, and materials for aircraft that streamline airflow and cut carbon emissions by 1.1%. And, in 2010, researchers estimate that cancer drugs derived from yet-to-be-discovered compounds in marine organisms could be worth between $0.5

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled. o C global warming scenario.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, conventional wheat growers are quick to point out that the requirement of not using herbicides for organic status leads to more tillage to control weeds and carbon emissions. Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift.” Geoforum 88:78–86. iii e.g. see Clark, Brett and Richard York.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Chicago: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, 2019); “Renewable Portfolio Standards Reduce Carbon Emissions—But, at a High Cost,” Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, April 22, 2019, [link] [20] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [link] [19] Michael Greenstone et al.,

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

When the campaign to cut carbon emissions began in the last decade of the 20 th Century, there seemed to be a clear path forward. International negotiations would begin with a framework convention, followed by a later global agreement capping carbon emissions. And to this day, those realities have not changed.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In its papers supporting the order to show cause, the attorney general said that PwC had served as Exxon’s independent auditor since before 2010 (the time period covered by the subpoena), a role in which PwC examined whether Exxon’s financial statement disclosures were supported by evidence. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

C above the 1981–2010 reference period, almost two degrees higher than the previous record. Shortly ahead of the summit, the UK government announced that it would set in law a target to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 25, 2021

higher education reforms,[[N:Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 115-97).]] It also gave the House Democratic Caucus a way to make changes to the Affordable Care Act without going to conference after Democrats lost their Senate super majority in 2010.[[N:Health 111- 152)]] and tax cuts.[[N:Economic

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