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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015.

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Future Shock

Legal Planet

The Paris agreement calls for capping warming as near as possible to 1.5° According to the report, “soft limits to some human adaptation have been reached, but can be overcome by addressing a range of constraints, which primarily consist of financial, governance, institutional and policy constraints.”. C in the near?

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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now?

Law Columbia

Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule. degrees Celsius.

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Dave McKay: Mr. Money Bags

Enviromental Defense

When campaigns criticized McKay and RBC , he used his platform to complain in a national paper that RBC was being unfairly targeted on social media and deferred responsibility for RBC’s fossil fuel financing to the government and other Canadian CEOs. And many people, including those in the government, are falling for it.

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Report from COP22: High Level Talks Begin

Law Columbia

This has become a familiar sight in recent days, with many government ministers arriving to take part in high level discussions. In the Paris Agreement , reached last year at COP21, “parties recognize[d] the importance of support for and international cooperation on adaptation.” That seems unlikely, however.

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Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

Law Columbia

In Kobe city, the construction of two new coal-fired power plants was planned, and the operator started the environmental impact assessment despite the opposition by the Kobe residents in 2014. Nevertheless, the Japanese government chose to expand coal-fired power generation, which is a major source of emissions.