Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” The report points out that under all of the illustrative scenarios it considered, “there is at least a greater than 50% likelihood that global warming will reach or exceed 1.5° C in the near?term, That’s not a cure-all, however, even if we can do it. The pace of change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science. Unusually for a Republican, the former San Diego mayor endorses significant climate action. Sam Gallucci.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Since 2014, Greece has doubled its renewable energy output with a series of new solar and wind projects, and they have shut down most of their coal-fired plants. The plan has been submitted to the European Union (EU) for approval, as the 27-country member block aims to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 29, 2022

Study provides data on gains and losses attributable to individual countries, including the finding that a group from the world’s leading national emitters of GHGs have caused $6 trillion in global economic losses through warming caused by their emissions from 1990 to 2014.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

These simulations used historical GHG concentrations and aerosol emissions to 2014, and a mid-range scenario (SSP2-4.5) These projections are the basis of our updated comparisons of CMIP6 models to observations , and specifically this graph: CMIP6 simulations and the GISTEMP observations. The screening uses the likely range of 1.8

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The proliferation of electronic devices has contributed to the accelerated surge of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in e-waste, according to a new study in Circular Economy. E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle: Almost every IPCC report has a version of the radiative bar chart showing the contributions over the historical period of all the different forcings (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar, etc.). 1, SPM, AR5.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. The engineers behind the Pathways Alliance must recognize that CCS will never be a cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Construction began in 2014. While hydrological change and sediment loads were the most common environmental subjects studied, fewer researchers analyzed dam development effects on fish diversity, non-fish aquatic species, river connectivity, and greenhouse gases.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. warmer than pre-industrial times (here defined as 1850-1900). Obviously, this goes most of the way to 1.5? of warming and human influence is pretty much the sole contributor to this observed warming.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 14, 2022

The United States and China, the world’s two leading greenhouse gas emitters, are each responsible for more than $1.8 trillion of global income losses from 1990 to 2014, according to a new study that links the emissions in individual countries to the economic impacts of climate change … Continue reading U.S.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. billion.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

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. 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.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC has repeatedly shown major instabilities in recent Earth history , for example during the Last Ice Age, prompting concerns about its stability under future global warming, see e.g. Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature. Here a quote from Liu et al.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. Some of these suits have produced settlements requiring steps to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improved wildfire protection for residents – and some lawsuits are ongoing , in some cases having at least temporarily stopped projects from proceeding. Implications.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2014 they created their ‘astroturf’ group, Canada’s Energy Citizens, to challenge and mimic the growing success of grassroots climate activists. CAPP paid for Facebook ads posted by Canada’s Energy Citizens that have urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

In addition to wetlands impacts, the groups allege that the LNG terminal and an associated pipeline would have a “staggering” impact on the climate in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. 4, 2014), Docket No. 19, 2014), Docket No. million tonnes/year of LNG that would be available for export, and the creation of 7,000 jobs. .

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 4, Pittsburgh-based UPMC announced they intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% within the next eight years across its footprint. UPMC will lead by example to develop approaches to health care that rapidly reduce our contributions to greenhouse gas emissions,” said Boninger. “We

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. One way to do that is to tell the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home. But you can help turn the tide.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. w power station in central Poland. Image credit: Pawel Brzozowski / Shutterstock.com. chatów power plant in Poland.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Civil Case : Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Physics World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The challenge forms part of the UK’s National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) , which was set up in 2014 to fund and spur on the rapidly growing UK quantum industry. They can monitor leaks of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – from gas and oil wells. Award winners. Having raised £3.1m

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is time the United States, as historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, investigates ways it can support those displaced by environmental destruction caused by climate change. In 2014, a family from Tuvalu sought refugee status in New Zealand because rising sea levels threatened their home. Factual Background A.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?”

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Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

This variation on the iconic US advertising slogan from the beef industry may sound funny, but it’s no joke that the current agriculture system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution. It’s what’s for dinner.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. He spent 12 years as a carbon capture researcher at the NETL before leaving in 2014 for entrepreneurial ventures. Dr. Luebke holds a Ph.D.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Gillian Graber Gillian Graber, from Harrison City, Westmoreland County, is the executive director and co-founder of Protect Penn-Trafford (Protect PT) , a grassroots community-based nonprofit established in 2014 to protect residents of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland and Allegheny counties from the impacts of fossil fuel activity.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Advocate for climate change policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow sea level rise. 58, 2014. [2] 4] IPCC, “Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Krauss et al. , “How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level,” New Phytologist , 2014. [11] September, pp. 1–56, 2022. [3] 213–232, 2019. [4]

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Superior Court (2014) 59 Cal.4th My August 8, 2014 post on the case can be found here. 4th 204, taught that a project’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (and related climate change impacts) are cumulative impacts and constitute a rather “different animal” for CEQA analysis purposes. CEQA’s “subsequent review” rules are elucidated.

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