Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2022

State, local and federal emissions policies already in place will reduce carbon emissions from U.S. transportation sources in 2030 by 19% from 2019 levels, according to an analysis released Thursday by America Is All In, a climate advocacy coalition supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It ordered Shell Oil, which is based in the Netherlands, to move rapidly to decarbonize its own operations and avoid selling products that would lead to carbon emissions — natural gas and gasoline, more specifically. Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

With economic growth have come carbon emissions. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Northern Irish Assembly has passed a bill to set a net-zero for energy-related carbon emissions by 2050. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. The plan serets interim emissions targets: 55% below 2005 levels by 2030; 65% below by 2035; and 75% below by 2040, toward the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill has set science-based targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. . The post How Chipotle Will Reduce its Carbon Emissions 50% By 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill has set science-based targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. . The post How Chipotle Will Reduce its Carbon Emissions 50% By 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A multistate cap-and-invest program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector is dead after several participating states pulled out. See TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast and TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.)

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

They gave only around $80 billion in 2019, and world leaders recently announced that this figure is not expected to reach $100 billion until 2023, three years behind schedule. Still, the cost of adaptation will only increase every year that carbon emissions continue unchecked. . “As

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

After an unsuccessful COP in Madrid (2019), as a Bangladeshi citizen (a country often referred to as “ground zero” for its climate vulnerability) I had to wait another two years to renegotiate issues that were blocked and left unresolved at COP25.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

UCS modeled the impacts of reduced emissions on public health As part of our research in the new Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition report , UCS undertook analyses to study the impacts of reducing carbon emissions on public health. Combined with our total health benefits, we see huge savings when we reduce emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

That’s why Newsom’s expected to visit a Tesla factory that has pumped out 2 million cars since opening in 2019. Newsom also stops in Hong Kong, the first city in Asia to require businesses to disclose their carbon emissions — similar to SB 253 that he signed this month covering businesses in California.

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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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Blueprint aims to reduce domestic aviation emissions [i] from airport operations by 20% from 2019 levels (404ktCO2) in 2030 and achieve net zero domestic and international aviation emissions by 2050.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. Membership fell to twelve when New Hampshire dropped out in 2019. To date, only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019 and again in 2020 , Shell found that CAPP was out of step with Shell’s principles because of lack of support for the Paris Agreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. and Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. You know what isn’t a pathway to zero emissions? Increasing them a lot.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. Local voices forge Maine solutions Science tells us that because of decades of delay we must now simultaneously reduce emissions and adapt to the changing climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2017 (before the Ford government) emissions were 156 Megatonnes (MT). In 2018 emissions rose 5 MT to 163 MT and in 2019, the most recent year of data, the emissions held steady at 163 MT. During this time, emissions rose overall in Canada – from 716 MT in 2017 to 730 MT in 2019. MT in 2019.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA codified several robust climate mandates for the State which must be achieved in an accelerated time frame. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

In the first in-person Frontiers Forum event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, Frontiers has announced an exceptional line up of speakers, renowned researchers, and influencers. Frontiers is offsetting event-related carbon emissions. Any organic leftovers will go to a biogas station initiative of the venue.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

This switch to solar at schools significantly reduces carbon emissions and creates community anchors for climate education, awareness, and action. K-12 schools more than doubled between 2014-2019, yet less than six percent of all schools were using solar power, according to Generation180 research. Solar on U.S.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. A 2019 study ( Environ. This was almost three tonnes per scientist, or the average weekly emissions of the city of Edinburgh ( Nature 583 356 ). 10.1038/s41893-021-00823-2 ).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 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”. By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 date is almost as early as the 2019 one (the 2020 date was pushed back due to COVID-19 induced lockdowns), showcasing the increasing impact of humanity on Earth’s biocapacity. In 2021 the carbon footprint of transportation will remain lower than pre-pandemic levels. Image credit: Earth Overshoot Day. Who is responsible.

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Climate Change Blawg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The carbon emissions from heating domestic homes account for around 13% of the UK’s annual carbon emissions. The carbon emissions from heating homes is comparable to the contribution of all petrol and diesel cars in the UK.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pennsylvania Solar Center’s carefully considered process for simplifying access to solar is a primary reason the nonprofit created Pennsylvania’s Galvanizing Energy Transition (GET) Solar program in 2019.

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Earthava

JULY 27, 2021

In fact, the International Energy Agency reported that around 3 million new electric cars were registered in 2020, which is a 41% increase from 2019. That’s not surprising as more people are looking for eco-friendly transport solutions, such as electric scooters, bicycles, and electric bicycles, to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Every five years, they are to issue so-called ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs), describing their actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. This success is an important achievement, as the OCO missions were designed to measure carbon emissions at much larger spatial scales.

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Earthava

MAY 17, 2021

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. In the US alone, the transportation sector contributed 29% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. Promotes sustainable transport.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Workers at the Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan have brawled and gone on strike numerous times, most recently in the summer of 2019. China is the fourth largest foreign investor overall in Kazakhstan (behind the Netherlands, the US and Switzerland ), and as of 2019, Chinese companies in Kazakhstan owned a 17.7%

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