2019 Carbon Emissions Politics 
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.
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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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.
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. 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.
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.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police. However, as of 2019, alternative energy comprised only around 1% of the country’s energy output.
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