Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The last coal plant in Scotland closed in 2016. Northern Irish Assembly has passed a bill to set a net-zero for energy-related carbon emissions by 2050. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. However, Scotland has not quite met these aggressive targets. Northern Ireland.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Public transit can provide another way of getting around that is more accessible to all and reduces transportation emissions. Transportation has been the biggest contributor to climate change in the US since 2016, and its emissions are only projected to increase in the future without significant changes. Are we there yet?

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Between 2016 and 2021, the carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have increased from 0.9 tonnes to 113 tonnes per coin

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a versatile, colourless molecular energy carrier with great potential to decarbonize multiple sectors and help reach net-zero emissions, there has been a renewed interest in improving and expanding hydrogen production with minimal or zero impact to the environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Last year, my UCS colleagues working on climate science and corporate accountability found, in a peer-reviewed study , that 37% of the area burned in western North America since 1986 is attributable to the carbon emissions of just 88 fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers. That 37% equates to 19.8

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

Judge Larisa Alwin ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. “The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group, and the suppliers and customers of the group.”

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. The C3S director Carlo Buontempo said, “These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions”.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

By providing public transit operating funding, encouraging housing density near public transit, setting zero-emission bus procurement requirements and providing incentives for cities to speed up public transit service with dedicated bus lanes, Canada can cut polluting carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes from 2024 to 2035.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Efficiency programs are the best and cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions because they both lower energy costs and carbon emissions. This is completely doable. And it would cost a lot less too. .

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A Greener Life

JULY 21, 2022

C, in July 2016. C, also set in July 2016. We must cut carbon emissions – or future summers will be long, hot and sleepless. Since 1814, and at the time of writing, only ten nights have remained above 20°C at Oxford (so-called tropical nights). Even this might well be surpassed soon. C since record-keeping began.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“The use of SAF is expected to contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net-zero in 2050,” says Albert Tjoeng, head of corporate communications for the IATA, which defines a SAF as a non-fossil fuel that has the potential to generate lower carbon emissions than conventional kerosene in its life cycle.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Even if finer resolution land-use types are used, it will always be difficult to generalize the potential of carbon storage and ROI between areas and scenarios, so locally-based estimates should always be made. Land Cover is from the 2016 National Land Cover Database26. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Non-native reforestation also sparks fears of hybridization in the Andes , making invasion even more complex as novel, physically indistinguishable hybrids can genetically pollute native populations and propagate without control in sight (Gaskin, 2016). References Brancalion, P. link] Cao, S., Yu, X., & Wang, G. AMBIO , 39 (4), 279–283.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The upcoming Olympics will leave a hydrogen society as its legacy,” Yoichi Masuzoe, then governor of Tokyo, declared in 2016. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. “The 1964 Tokyo Olympics left the Shinkansen high-speed train system as its legacy.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. According to a 2016 report from Jiemian.com , Datang Coal-Chemicals lost 11.6 Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. This amounts to over 115,000 new electric buses just in 2016 , an increase by a factor 70 in just three years! Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Just weeks ago, Saudi Arabia pledged to reach ‘net zero carbon emissions within its borders’ by 2060, but that calculation will not include oil exports (. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). But it is another thing for a business to make ESG claims about net zero or otherwise that mislead customers.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions.

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Acoel

MAY 11, 2022

As in most countries, there appear to be no statutes or regulations in the United States that directly address carbon emissions from peatlands, and the requirements that do apply focus on protection of wetland habitat and water quality. And that in turn could mean that peat will earn the moniker of climate “champ” instead of “chump”.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. watt in 2016 (Source: Energy Sage ). Doing more with less is the best solution to many of our problems. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

The Paris Olympics has made an ambitious climate pledge this year, to halve its carbon footprint relative to previous Summer Games. For comparison, the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics emitted 3.3 million tonnes of carbon. million, avoiding 512,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. million tonnes and 3.6

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a result, the country lost half of its mature forest between 1940 and 1980, according to a 2016 report from the REDD+ initiative. The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Summary: In 2016, the Chinese government plans to launch a national market for carbon permit trading. Overall, there have been no reductions in carbon emissions. In preparation for this national system, the government rolled out seven test markets, which saw varying degrees of compliance. But, the system is not doomed.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

And some months ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia pledged to reach ‘net zero carbon emissions within its borders’ by 2060, but that calculation will not include oil exports (. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). and such may be more philosophy than physics).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

We feel that natural gas and derivative products provide a path for the transportation industry both to reduce carbon emissions in the short-term while working toward a goal of net-zero in the long-term as hydrogen and other potential solutions mature," said Christina Cassotis, CEO, Pittsburgh International Airport.

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A Greener Life

JULY 12, 2023

We want to generate renewable power in the desert for other mining operations as well as the railway line that is in the pipeline; our solar project will offset carbon emissions from the coal that is being mined and used to fire the two power plants [in Block 2],” Cheng added. How can a solar project neutralise carbon emissions?”

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. To conclude, finance is a key component of slashing carbon emissions and reaching global carbon neutrality by 2050 at the latest and being carbon negative afterwards.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

On October 11, 2016, in an effort known as #ShutItDown, a group dubbed the “Valve Turners” traveled to five remote locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Washington, cut through locked enclosures, and turned the shut-off valves on five pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada into the United States. in some way.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

He was president of the Central Bank of Chile from 2016 until this year and has had a long career in international organisations and working on financial policies, including under several previous Chilean governments. The whole world values the reduction of carbon emissions and the protection of the environment.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 11, 2016, the EPA published a proposed rule designed to update its Renewable Fuel Standards Program and support the growth of renewable fuel use. 3) Approval of New Feedstock for Cellulosic Biofuels – The EPA aims to increase the use of cellulosic biofuels, the fuels with the lowest carbon emissions.

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