Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It’s a privilege to be here representing the Union of Concerned Scientists with my colleagues, peers from other NGOs and wider civil society and government and private sector leaders from around the globe. Our shared aim? To secure a livable future for people and the planet for generations to come. The legacy of Sharm el-Sheikh: up to u s.

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Capaccio

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. What Does COP28 Mean for the Private Sector? What’s Next?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

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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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. EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Article 8 of the Paris Agreement explicitly recognizes the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. The new arrangements ought to complement the sources, funds, processes and initiatives under and outside of the Convention and the Paris Agreement.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But we wanted to take a moment to lay out our expectations, both for what COP28 must deliver as well as the Government of Canada. (If At COP27, the Government of Canada failed to champion calls for a fossil fuel phaseout. Canadians expect more from their government this year.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

Imperial Oil is now the subject of a formal investigation by the federal government. RBC talks a big game about climate action and “net zero” but since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, RBC has poured nearly $350 billion dollars into climate-destroying fossil fuel companies. What strategies do these villains use?

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Despite green rhetoric from the government, the situation is not likely to improve soon. Indonesia’s government looks at coal as the cheapest energy source, but ignores the fact that continuing to build these coal plants – and in particular mine-mouth plants – clashes with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While every UN member state would need to agree to the new agreement (if reached in Glasgow) which would replace the Paris Agreement , the landmark deal agreed in Paris in 2015, it really depends on a handful of countries. degrees C target. Climate maths. Success in Glasgow is really a maths issue. Bleak prospects.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. “What is needed is a proper commitment to genuinely get to net zero and that has to be through government legislation.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. Five years down the line, countries were scheduled to return to the forum and finalise a rulebook on how to implement the Paris Agreement. By Lou Del Bello. On the agenda at COP26.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 19, 2021

And we also know that now, only months before the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow November, we are far behind what was promised by countries at the Paris Agreement conference in 2015. . We have known for a long time that action is not just meeting pledges and promises. Most comprehensive climate data.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

The Japanese government recognized the urgent need to secure power supply and implemented some measures to expedite the construction of new power plant. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and entered into force the following year in 2016, with Japan also submitting its NDC.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. Carbon Emissions Emissions goals were set in response to urgent developments in climate science indicating that for the world to meet the 1.5°C

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

Especially in the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement, policy monitoring and review has become the core way in which the international community seeks to reach climate targets. Towards Harder Soft Governance? References: Schoenefeld, J.J. & & Jordan, A. Monitoring Climate Policy in the EU. DOI: [link] [OPEN ACCESS].

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes. But “while daunting, we have great agency here. It is still technically possible to reduce emissions and stabilize the climate.”.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The government of Indonesia has taken several bold initiatives to protect and restore critical coastal ecosystems, particularly coral reefs and mangroves,” said Andre Aquino, senior natural resources management specialist at the World Bank’s environment and natural resources global practice, during an online press event.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. I had to wait 37 years of my life until the world finally agreed to a global climate deal with the Paris Agreement in 2015. This has since changed many times.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. But that has not deterred the South African government from planning to add 1500 MW of new coal-fired power between 2023 to 2027.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. In the run-up to COP26, the UK has been working behind the scenes with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades.

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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 C temperature target. Schäfer, S., Oschlies, A.,

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

In 2019, after the United States had withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates adopted a climate change resolution (No. It urges: Federal, state and local governments, and the private sector, to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to net zero or below.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Plans for a third runway at the Vienna-Schwechat airport (pictured at right) were first submitted for review by the government of Lower Austria (one of Austria’s 9 regions) in March 2007. by Justin Gundlach. Updated on June 29, 2017). The parties have six weeks to appeal the decision to Austria’s Constitutional Court.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, Indonesians at the frontline of climate change filed a claim before the National Human Rights Commission seeking recognition that climate change is a matter of human rights and calling on the Indonesian government to take stronger action. Indonesia , as well as recent developments of the case. The human rights complaint.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2015 to 13.3% In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. international climate change agreement. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. jointly committed.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The subpoenas requested that they turn over key documents they failed to produce in response to the committee’s initial request, which focused on the period beginning in late 2015, when nearly 200 countries signed the Paris climate agreement. Shell is a pro with these tactics. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. In Canada, the federal government passed the Act to implement its commitments. The federal government argued that it has the authority to address issues that are national in scope.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Producers and governments have shown interest in CCS as it allows for the continued use of fossil fuels while reducing net carbon dioxide emissions.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, courts worldwide further defined governments’ and companies’ duty of care in relation to climate change, as well as a governments’ extraterritorial responsibility for climate harm. National courts advance climate mitigation pushing governments towards increased action. See an analysis of the decision here.

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