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

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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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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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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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. But even with that target, reform of Kazakhstan’s energy sector needs to happen if carbon neutrality by 2060 is to be a realistic goal. Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Ecological Indicators 98 , 29–38 (2019).

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Wolf directed DEP to prepare the regulation in October 2019. IRRC Commissioner John Soroko first made a motion to disapprove the regulation.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this episode of Greenberg Traurig’s E2 Law Podcast, attorneys Steven Russo , Zackary Knaub , and Jane McLaughlin discuss New York State’s cap-and-invest program to limit greenhouse gas emissions and share revenue with New Yorkers from disadvantaged communities to help cover utility bills, transportation costs, and decarbonization.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. The country’s pledges and carbon-reduction policies have recently been deemed ‘ highly insufficient ’ by the thinktank Climate Action Tracker, which analyses countries’ climate pledges against the global 1.5C Photo credit: Pacific Press Media Production Corp.

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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

And at the same time, the facts of our failure as a society to deal with the problem have been demonstrated by the ever-growing carbon emissions. And even with ever-increasing and sophisticated green technology, we are not making a big enough dent in bringing emissions down. The future generation. That is just a fact.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. link] content/uploads/2019/09/ Climate-Emergency- Urban-Opportunity-report.pdf. Foster, 2020.Urban

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

When the Act was passed in 2021 , it recognized that existing climate investments were not enough and that revenue raised through the CCA should be dedicated to reducing carbon emissions, transitioning our state to a carbon-free economy, and enhancing climate resilience. © Breanna Oakley/TNC Photo Contest 2019.

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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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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Hausfather admits my claim, “Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s” — is true, but then adds that it "overstate[s] the long-term success that rich countries have had"? And, again, he imagines me to be saying something I am not saying.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog post is adapted from testimony delivered at the New York City Department of Buildings hearing on proposed rule §103-14 , Procedures for Reporting on and Complying with Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Certain Buildings in connection with the City’s building performance standard, Local Law 97.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

The legislation empowers farmers to be part of the climate solution on a voluntary basis and creates options for people and companies to offset carbon emissions without mandates. In September 2018, CRES was the first to introduce the voluntary framework to address climate change problems.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

The legislation empowers farmers to be part of the climate solution on a voluntary basis and creates options for people and companies to offset carbon emissions without mandates. In September 2018, CRES was the first to introduce the voluntary framework to address climate change problems.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. The World Resources Institute’s Forest Pulse report found that in 2022, emissions from tropical deforestation were equivalent to the annual emissions of India (currently the world’s third largest emitting country).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 27 Released 1.1

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

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. The built environment accounts for approximately 28% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of all U.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Similarly, economy-wide emissions hit 6,263 Metric tons of CO2 in 2021, up 5.8 percent below 2019 levels. However, transport emissions in 2021 did not return to 2019 levels.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell plc to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, relative to 2019, across all activities, including its subsidiaries and both its own emissions and end-use emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3). Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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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

JULY 12, 2023

Excessive food waste and dying soils are having a profoundly negative global impact, notably in creating extreme atmospheric carbon levels. of Pitt’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

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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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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On its face, this might seem strange since our scientific models have long identified population growth as one of the two primary drivers of humanity’s increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and disruptive climate change has come on more quickly than expected.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

Take, for example, the claim that greenhouse gases (e.g. iii They have also studied networks that fund climate change denialism as well as barriers and opportunities to socio-economic policies or cultural practices which may drive CO2 emissions. CO2) cause climate change. non-normative). Theory, Culture & Society 27(2–3):100–133.

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. 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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