A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

According to a 2020 study ( Glob. A 2021 study found that 7000 virtual delegates at three large scientific meetings, held online in 2020, had the same carbon footprint as a single in-person attendee to the same events in 2019 ( Nat. © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. Taken from Nat.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. The court held that climate change poses a direct threat to constitutional environmental rights. The Thabametsi judgment has received substantial international attention.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Andrea graduated from Columbia Law School in 2020.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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. To keep the objectives of the Paris Agreement within reach, CO2 emissions need to be drastically reduced. Gas as a transition fuel: carbon lock-in effects?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

With great fanfare, the company launched its Sky Scenario, a “technically possible, but challenging pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement.” Internal Shell “Net Zero Emissions” (NZE) messaging guidance from January 2020 includes the following points: Be explicit in defining NZE as a goal for society.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Success at COP28 is likely to be measured by the inclusion of strong fossil fuel phaseout language, free from loopholes, in the final agreement. By 2019, the largest growth in absolute emissions occurred in carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry. of gross domestic product in 2020 and are expected to increase.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. The clever microbes that do this, mostly Archaea (i.e., Climate impact.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. As a result, analysts now even predict a global peak coal by 2020.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

May 1, 2020). 3, 2020; request for publication granted May 4, 2020). The dissenting judge would have found that the 2018 rule was an interpretive rule because it “did no more than articulate the EPA’s view of what was required by Mexichem in the ‘near term’ and pending further rulemaking.” Natural Resources Defense Council v.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 29, 2021

133 ”), which was signed into law by former President Trump on December 27, 2020, contains notable bipartisan energy initiatives, ranging from new and extended tax incentives to government programs for research and development for CCS projects. The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (“ H.R.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? between FY 2009 and 2020. Forest Service.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 29, 2021

133 ”), which was signed into law by former President Trump on December 27, 2020, contains notable bipartisan energy initiatives, ranging from new and extended tax incentives to government programs for research and development for CCS projects. The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (“ H.R.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. Circuit’s January 2021 decision vacating the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule for carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Petitioners challenging the September 2020 EPA rule that repealed significant portions of the new source performance standards (NSPS) for the oil and natural gas sector moved for voluntary dismissal of their petitions for review in the D.C. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021. WildEarth Guardians v.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

On Inauguration Day, the United States also began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement. The 2020 SAFE Rule weakened motor vehicle emission standards that the Obama administration had issued in 2012, requiring only a 1.5% The 2020 rule was challenged by states and environmental groups last fall.

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