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Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossilfuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossilfuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.
Earlier this year, The Guardian ran a powerful article exposing the ties of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic publishing companies, to the fossilfuel industry. The article caught my attention because I’d never considered the ways in which an academic publisher might be perpetuating and enabling a fossilfuel economy.
Fossilfuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
And fossilfuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its ParisAgreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5
According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossilfuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossilfuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.
As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 ParisAgreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.
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. The industry’s actions, the CHR report said, were driven “not by ignorance, but greed.”
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. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossilfuels for its power generation.
Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the ParisAgreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.
This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.
Barclays and HSBC are two of the major banks which continue to fund fossilfuel investments. A report by ShareAction has delivered a damning verdict on European banks connection to fossilfuel investments. Major European banks at the heart of continued fossilfuel support. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.
But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossilfuels. We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the ParisAgreement.” And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the ParisAgreement now seems an uphill task. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.
Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the ParisAgreement. The ABA House of Delegates, the ABA’s policy making body, adopted resolutions urging action on climate change in 2008 and 2019. In the U.S.,
above pre-industrial levels, the high ambition goal set by the ParisAgreement. “As Only 44 of the 1,030 companies on the list have announced a coal exit date, and only around 30 of them have declared dates that could be considered aligned with the ParisAgreement. Gas power should not be an option.
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossilfuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. When I was born in 1979 it had stood at 4.36
March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the ParisAgreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. Climate groups in South Asia and across the world are demanding urgent climate action at COP26. By Lou Del Bello.
The Covid-19 pandemic not only caused a global health and economic crisis but also significantly reduced global CO2 emissions in 2020 by 6 to 7%, compared to 2019. To recover economically, many governments worldwide have invested in recovery plans to stimulate the economy and support employment.
Japan’s dependency on fossilfuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossilfuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.
We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming.
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).
Fossilfuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The transition away from fossilfuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.
below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2021 reduction of 37.1% (accountable due to workers returning to the office), but still greater than the pre-pandemic 2019 reduction of 19.8%. million and reduced water consumption by 32.8% The Pittsburgh 2030 District comprises property partners representing more than 550 buildings occupying 87.1
As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the ParisAgreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.
At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the ParisAgreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. Fossilfuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says.
The court ordered Royal Dutch Shell (“RDS”) to reduce its emission by net 45% by 2030 in comparison to levels in 2019 – although without assertion of any unlawful conduct by the defendant (link to the judgement in English here ). Background. In the elaboration of the assessment (§4.), In the elaboration of the assessment (§4.),
For example, in 2019 Norway and SeaBOS joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI). At a side event— The Clean, Resilient Maritime Sector of the Future: Turning Commitments into Action sponsored by the UN Foundation—Ocean Conservancy’s shipping emissions campaign manager, Dan Hubbell launched our new report on alternative shipping fuels.
C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 ParisAgreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2020 reduction of 42.1%, but still far greater than the 2019 reduction of 19.8%.
In September 2019, the IACHR held a hearing for civil society organizations who called on the IASHR to recognize the climate crisis, imploring nations in the region to take further and substantive steps to address climate change. This blog post highlights takeaways from the resolution and its significance for climate litigation. Background.
CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. For example, methane stayed roughly flat for about a decade from the late 1990s, but has increased rapidly since then – by nearly 16 ppb in 2020 over 2019. Atmospheric concentrations.
Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossilfuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossilfuels, including gas, oil and coal. “Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said.
The Court’s jurisdiction was invoked pursuant to Article 32 of the Constitution through a Writ Petition urging the Court to seek from the Government (the Respondents herein) “an emergency response plan for the protection and recovery” of the GIB in 2019.
C mark, because of decades of inaction on the part of policymakers and decades of deception and obstruction on the part of fossilfuel companies. To secure the livable future that children around the world deserve, we must double down, ratchet up pressure on governments, and break the power of the fossilfuel industry.
Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the ParisAgreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C At COP26, China submitted a long-term development strategy , pursuant to Article 4(19) of the ParisAgreement.
In May 2019, a group of eight Torres Strait Islanders and six of their children submitted a complaint against the Australian government to the UNHRC. The complaint argues these violations stem from insufficient climate mitigation targets, as well as a general failure to cease to promote fossilfuel extraction and use.
Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossilfuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossilfuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.
A 2019 study ( Environ. When the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union took place in California in 2019 the 28,000 delegates emitted around 80,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2 e) travelling there and back home afterward. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7
Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossilfuels. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their ParisAgreement goals.
Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossilfuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories. Fossilfuel workers are also far from the only ones impacted.
The applicants sought an injunction declaring that Shell is legally bound to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% below 2019 levels by 2030. This leads to an important distinction between fossilfuels specifically produced or merely traded by Shell, as discussed in more detail below. Royal Dutch Shell.
For IPCC 6, the results confirm, in greater detail than ever before, the impact that fossilfuels have on our climate. In the Kenai Peninsula we stopped in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, site of the 2019 Swan Lake Fire. Celsius, the aspirational target of the landmark ParisAgreement.
On September 20, 2021, the German environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) filed two actions against the automakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz for refusing to tighten their carbon emissions target and stop producing fossilfuelfuel-emitting cars by 2030 ( DUH v. BMW and DUH v. Mercedes-Benz ). Mercedes-Benz emitted 118.5
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 ParisAgreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. Shell “supports” the ParisAgreement on climate change , limiting warming to 1.5 and Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the ParisAgreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.
The key findings are: The investments of the Pathways Alliance members remain overwhelmingly concentrated on oil and gas and are not aligned with ParisAgreement goals. Over the last four years (2019-2022), they collectively invested at least CAD $47.3 billion (USD $34 billion) in their fossilfuel operations.
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