Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. It is not hard to see why.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) when he chaired the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. [At At one hearing, Wrightstone said, “Global warming will save lives.” Read more here.] We cannot overstate the importance of the gas.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 23, 2022

The issue is over Senate Bill 2344 , passed by the Legislature in 2019 and, no surprise here, supported by the oil and gas industry. North Dakota is a promising area for carbon dioxide injection. Disputes involving pore space are likely to continue in North Dakota given increased oil and gas activity.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This version originates from a 1995 German book and to this day is highly popular with the climate skeptics bubble on social media, and with the German right-wing AfD climate denial party (see my 2019 blog article ). Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. Norman Philips published what is recognised as the first GCM in 1955 – he died in 2019. 1620078, 2019. Manabe’s Climate Modeling.

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Physics World

MARCH 14, 2022

Carbon world. Developed in 2019 by Wang and colleagues including Charley Lineweaver of the Australian National University, the new model allows astronomers to predict the chemical composition and mineralogy – and consequently the geology and atmospheric gases – of a planet. Real-life planetary laboratories.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EIA also forecasts a slight increase in carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources in 2022, but still short of 2019 levels. Energy Information Administration released its November Short Term Energy Outlook which forecasts continued high energy costs going into 2022, but finds decreases into 2022. gallon in October to $3.16/gallon

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement.

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Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. kg of carbon dioxide, respectively. kg and 1.85 kg and 1.85

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The total forcing from the trace greenhouse gases mentioned in Step 3, is currently (to 2019) about 3.3 Shine, "Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative forcing", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. W/m 2 since the pre-industrial ( IPCC AR6 Chapter 7 ).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a 2019 scenario exercise examining governance responses to four scenarios of unauthorized SAI deployment, the scenario of a widely distributed grassroots effort using weather balloons was the only one the expert participants rejected as pure political symbolism, unable to achieve a meaningful climate impact.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 2019–20 wildfires generated 700 million tonnes of carbon dioxide—but a lot of that might have been mopped up by phytoplankton in the ocean. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A Massachusetts-based startup that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air has raised $80 million from investors, including Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Founded in 2019, Verdox Inc.’s Read the full story at Bloomberg Green. s technology is still only operable at lab scale.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

News sources in late 2019 began reporting the invisible threat of COVID-19 with limited ideas of how it was spreading. Carbon dioxide (CO2) monitors are a relatively inexpensive method to estimate the concentration of COVID-19 aerosol particles since individuals exhale CO2 at the same time as aerosol particles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 micrometers or less.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans. Wm 2 over the period 1750-2019 because we have added extra greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere. The current estimate is 3°C, with a likely range of 2.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Ethnopharmacological Responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Edited by Michael Heinrich; Javier Echeverria; Adolfo Andrade-Cetto; Jon Wardle; Jia-bo Wang; Hung-Rong Yen PDF Learning and Memory Edited by Michael A Yassa; Thomas Wolbers; Hiroyuki Okuno; Ashok Hegde; Peter K. Where Next?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect. Research has shown that the country’s remaining coal plants are responsible for 3,800 premature deaths per year, based on 2019 data.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

Instead of a wholesale prohibition on natural gas piping, Local Law 154 sets indoor air emissions limits for fossil fuel combustion in new building construction, prohibiting the burning of any substance that emits 25 kilograms or more of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of energy. California Restaurant Association v.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

percent in 2019. The Erie District avoided over 8,000 metric tons of CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalent] emissions in 2020, an amount equal to the emissions of over 740 homes. In 2020, the Erie 2030 District reduced energy usage to 13 percent below the baseline, a slight increase from 14.8

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. Last modified 12 Dec 2019. This leads us to our next question: How do we even define drought?

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. 14 095001 ) found that professors at the University of Montreal in Canada had twice the annual carbon footprint of the average Canadian, with most of the difference linked to professional travel. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Another scientist who focuses on greenhouse gas emissions accounting told the court Montana is responsible for tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year – the sixth-most in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2021, overall annual emissions from oil and gas globally were 40,800 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Before the pandemic started, 17 per cent of Canadian fossil fuel jobs already disappeared between 2014 and 2019. And how much did CCUS capture? megatonnes, around 0.1

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

As proposed, the oil and gas industry must reduce its emissions by 35-38 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030. Offsets are tradable credits that polluters can purchase to compensate for a ton of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in greenhouse gasses, by investing in emissions-reducing environmental projects elsewhere.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

We then determined carbon dioxide emissions per smartphone charged by multiplying the energy use per smartphone charged by the national weighted average carbon dioxide marginal emission rate for delivered electricity. of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (. of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

BLM projects that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In fact, a breakthrough experiment done in 2019 by behavioural scientists Philipp Schmid and Cornelia Betsch from the University of Erfurt , Germany, showed that several methods of rebuttal were more effective than no response at all. The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate.

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