Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Climate Finance is the Litmus Test for COP29 COP29 has been dubbed the “climate finance COP”.

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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. In fact at the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño event, global anomalies for individual months already exceeded 1.5?. 4) of the Paris Agreement, even though it includes the “well below 2°C” part.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. This change shall facilitate two long-term obligations: achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and improving Europe`s contribution to the Paris Agreement. The European Commission partly admits these points (p.13)

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 27, 2023

In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them. This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015, when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented. It is increasingly likely that COP28 will be remembered as the summit that effectively kills the target that world leaders celebrated in 2015 in Paris. gigatonnes CO2 equivalent.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Back in 2015, when 174 countries and the European Union came together to finalize the Paris Agreement, each agreed to do its part to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story at Grist.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. and other major greenhouse gas emitters? and other developed nations.

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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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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America.

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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). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The ITLOS advisory opinion crafts a series of interlocking and mutually reinforcing obligations across international climate law and international law of the sea that may ultimately serve to strengthen states’ duties to reduce greenhouse gas (‘GHG’) emissions and minimize the serious environmental harms resulting from climate change.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UN body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the economic downturn brought on by nationwide lockdowns only caused a temporary downturn in emissions and was not enough to reverse the rising levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere. Not going in the right direction. It now looks like a distant pipedream.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change? In Paris from Nov. Ready for COP: COP21 Begins in 24 Hours: Will a Paris Agreement [Decrease] [Solve] [Do Nothing On] Climate Change? till its finish!

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A Greener Life

JUNE 1, 2023

Earlier this month, the UN warned that it is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, as greenhouse gasses and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. Degrees C.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The analysis showed that the promised action would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 9% this decade, far short of the global goal to cut emissions by nearly half by 2030. During the UN climate talks in Paris in 2015 and the adoption of the Paris Agreement, it was agreed that emissions should not exceed 1.5

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. 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.

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Acoel

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. The Pact committed to maintain the 1.5°C

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Climate scientists say the world needs to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels. Only then is the world going to have any chance of meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of keeping temperature increases well below 2 degrees C.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

That means countries will be undertaking the first official assessment of their progress on meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement since it was signed in 2015. For example, we are still not doing as much as our peers in terms of reducing greenhouse gas pollution.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Its predecessor, the Peatland Restoration Agency (PRA), was formed in 2015 after Indonesia experienced historical forest fires connected to peatland degradation. In charge of rehabilitation and restoration is the newly named Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency. The PRA has restored more than 1 million hectares of peatland so far.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

The work was initiated by Alexander Hristov , distinguished professor of dairy nutrition, in 2015 when he was the chair of the Feed and Nutrition Network of the 35-country Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. degrees Fahrenheit. Ruminants provide about half the animal protein produced by livestock.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

Greenhouse gas monitoring – and increasingly climate policy monitoring, meaning the continuous tracking of policies with indicators – has existed since the early 1990s – and is thus a long-standing practice.

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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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. Air pollution and emissions from coal are problems across Indonesia.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The success of the Paris Agreement depends on the effective monitoring of climate policy measures. The signatories of the 2015 Paris Agreement not only agreed to limit global warming to well below two degrees, but each country also put forward concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gases and secure financial support.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. 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.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Scientists used satellite data of ship tracks and climate models to estimate that, globally, changes in low-level clouds due to human-caused (anthropogenic) pollution has a cooling effect that is equivalent to about 25-33% of the anthropogenic warming caused by greenhouse gases , or approximately 1 Watt of energy per square meter. Schäfer, S.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 This allows the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter China and third largest India to continue chain-smoking coal to power their industrial machines. And we remain sandwiched between China and India as the second leading greenhouse gas producer.

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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. 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.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, its authors leave a glimmer of hope in what could be a nod to governments ahead of COP26, that strong and sustained CO2 emissions reductions, as well as cuts to other planet-warming greenhouse gasses (GHG), would limit climate change. In the report, researchers set out new estimates for the chances of crossing the 1.5

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2024

A key and underrated aspect of the recent triad of climate rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is that the ECtHR has brought to the fore the role of trade-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in states’ carbon footprints. Embedded Emissions and International Trade Production is a crucial source of anthropogenic GHGs.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That increase will breach the targets agreed by the 2015 Paris climate agreement set at COP21 and bring widespread devastation and more instances of extreme weather. The group also said that any assumptions made when preparing financial statements must be compatible with the Paris agreement.

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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. Any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will undoubtedly rely heavily on reducing the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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