New Scientist

MAY 18, 2021

Devastating wildfires that swept the central Amazon in 2015 caused a loss of around 27 per cent of vegetation in the region over the next three years

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2015 81

Environmental Leader

JULY 21, 2022

In 2021, Kimberly-Clark achieved nearly a 41% reduction in operational emissions (Scope 1 and 2) versus its 2015 base year, according to its annual report on sustainability. . The post Kimberly-Clark Achieves 41% Reduction in Emissions Versus 2015 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment Next

AUGUST 31, 2021

The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act. The court left open for further briefing and argument whether the 2019 regulatory action repealing the 2015 rule is valid. In 2015, the U.S. Stay tuned!

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New Scientist

AUGUST 12, 2022

More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population

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2015 98

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By Bob Berwyn A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years.

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Vorys Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

EPA’s website indicating the that Agencies have halted implementation of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule and are reverting back to the pre-2015 regulatory regime for interpreting the meaning of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) subject to federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. EPA-Army Corps joint statement here.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Higher temperatures in European cities have been linked to one-third of premature deaths during the summer of 2015. The study, published in The Lancet, shows that increasing tree cover in urban areas could decrease this number by as much as 30%.

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2015 246

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Since 2015, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources green energy and sustainability projects have resulted in the installation of 19 solar arrays; the addition of 33 plug in EV and hybrid vehicles; public EV charging stations at 33 state park and forest locations; and energy efficiency measures that will save more than $30 million over (..)

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2015 Greenhouse Cooling Natural Resources 52

The Applied Ecologist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology has welcomed a small group of mentees with minimum editorial experience each year. Are you less than five years post-PhD and live in/are from the Global South? Why not consider applying for Journal of Applied Ecology’s 2025 mentoring scheme! What is the mentoring scheme?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third.

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Yale E360

JULY 13, 2021

Just 25 cities globally are responsible for 52 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that highlights the role that cities must play in reaching the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Read more on E360 ?.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

authors noticed this in 2015 (Soon et al., 2015) but rather than fix it they now chose to report just the (wrong) calculations that supported their conclusions. 409-452, 2015. If your conclusions depend on the order in which you enter numbers into a computer, maybe you should check your methods. Some Connolly et al.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change. Some start with modest ambition and achieve major success. Read more on E360 ?.

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Paris Agreement 2015 Climate Change 248

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2015.” Prior to the closing months of 2015, no notable OSW survey, construction, or maintenance vessel traffic existed in the Atlantic Ocean.1 The change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalizing lease agreements with OSW developers.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 21, 2023

L&G and NTR have worked together since 2015 when L&G became a cornerstone investor in NTR's first two funds. The post LGIM & NTR Secure Major Financial Commitments from Investors for Clean Power Fund appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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2015 Renewable Energy 130

Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

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Deforestation Government 2015 190

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Countries need to double their energy-efficiency gains to achieve the emissions reductions required to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a new report finds

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2015 Climate Change 138

Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical: The Environmental Reader’s Digest Version. Summary: In his May encyclical, Pope Francis called for swift global action on climate change. He linked science, morality and church doctrine to do so. Now, citizens around the globe are taking action. By Ashton Roberts.

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NRDC

APRIL 22, 2024

Back in 2015, governments in the UNFCCC agreed to negotiate a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. What are the key elements that countries need to agree on?

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2015 2025 Government 90

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial level that the 2015 Paris climate agreement is striving to avoid. By Bob Berwyn September’s stunning rise of the average global temperature is all but certain to make 2023 the warmest year on record, and 2024 is likely to be even hotter, edging close to the “red line” of 1.5

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Nucro's greenhouse gas emissions from steel mills are 25%-%33 of the global average, and it has committed to an additional 35% combined reduction in steel mill scopes 1 scope 2 greenhouse gas intensity by 2030 using the 2015 baseline. That is 77% less than the global average.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some 1,175 gigawatts of new coal projects have been cancelled since 2015, an amount greater than the current coal capacity of China, according to a new report from climate think tank E3G. Read more on E360 ?.

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2015 143

Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) also a year in which El Niño developed over the year) was comparable (both 2023 and 2015 broke the previous record by more than 0.15ºC). Indeed, even as late as October, with only two months to go, the estimates for the annual mean still did not encompass the eventual annual number.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Despite Americans’ increased dependence on cell phones and other technology, the amount of electronic waste generated in the United States has shrunk 10 percent since 2015. The decline is due to the phasing out of bulky products, such as large cathode-ray tube televisions and computer monitors, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

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Waste 2015 Technology Technology 178

Yale E360

JANUARY 15, 2021

The clean energy sector in the United States lost 429,000 jobs last year due to the economic impacts of Covid-19, with the industry hitting its lowest number of workers since 2015, according to a new analysis of federal unemployment filings.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

2015) , and this is also applies to Kininmonth’s calculations. 699-703, 2015. In contrast to Kininmonth simple estimates, both feedback effects and clouds are captured much better with global climate models that also use the same physics as in MODTRAN (Huang et al., Nuccitelli, S. Lewandowsky, K. Hayhoe, H.O. van Dorland, and J.

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New Scientist

JUNE 29, 2023

The most significant US climate funding law ever passed, the Inflation Reduction Act, is already having a impact, but it won't be enough for the nation to meet its targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement

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Paris Agreement 2015 Law 80

The Applied Ecologist

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Since 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology has welcomed a small group of mentees with minimum editorial experience each year. Are you less than five years post-PhD, live in or are from the Global South, and looking to gain hands-on experience with an editorial board? Why not apply for the 2024 mentoring scheme with Journal of Applied Ecology!

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2024 2015 98

Energy & the Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

They did nothing to prosecute the suit until 2015, at which time they alleged that Meng continued to interfere over the preceding 15 years. Each had an unplugged well that had not been operated since 2015. On the lease were three separate 40-acre units, Nos. 2, 4 and 7. Repudiation.

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2015 2001 Waste 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While the total number of events that cause customer outages changed modestly year-over-year, it was still well above the amount in 2015. Since 2015, vegetation has consistently been the leading cause of outages and lost customer minutes in Pennsylvania.

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Electricity 2015 2023 2019 106

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Beginning in 2015, journalists began to uncover mounting evidence of Defendants’ campaign of deception,” the complaint says. “In And the answer was a lot, a long time ago. The timeline is laid out in California’s complaint , filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2015 Sea Level 284

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. 2015 was the first year in which measurements going back to 1942 didn’t register any snow on April 1. The light blue shading indicates average.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2015 2023 345

PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection reports a study by Penn State Extension from 2013 to 2015 at various roadside springs across Pennsylvania, over 90% of the roadside springs that were sampled were found to be contaminated with total coliform bacteria.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The American Physical Society’s new policy is a shift from its 2015 statement, which called the magnitude of future climate impacts “uncertain” and referred to “significant” natural sources of warming.

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Climate Change 2015 134

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The annual number of climate-related lawsuits filed against the world’s largest fossil fuel producing companies has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, according to a recent report from Oil Change International and Zero Carbon Analytics. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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