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2020 Director’s Message

Vermont Law

The Top 10 Environmental Watch List is not about politics on its face, but as any 1L taking Constitutional Law can tell you, law and politics are fruit of the same tree. in the 2016 election and years since, or the feverish tracking of. on the Paris Agreement right out of the gate. judicial appointments.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

See for instance Benestad (2016). We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. In other words, we are approaching the limits defined in the Paris Agreement, even if it is only a monthly measure, as opposed to a permanent increase.

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The Governance of the European Energy Union: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Acceptance of the Winter Package 2016’, Energy Policy, 112, 209–20. West European Politics, doi: [link].

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. In PSB et al.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. the Paris Agreement. stay on implementation. social cost of carbon.

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Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

A Greener Life

The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32 Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower. No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas?

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. The most important recent change was a new measurement of methane’s infrared absorption in 2016. shorter time-horizon GWPs).