Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Instead of investing in clean energy, the fossil fuel industry perpetuates the problem and erodes public trust. They fund organizations that dispute scientific consensus to maintain a status quo that benefits them. Greenwashing is incredibly problematic because it works to slow and prevent climate action.

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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. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

C above preindustrial levels, the limit that island nations and allies fought for so hard in the Paris Agreement. (It C limit in the Paris Agreement refers to the long-term average temperature, rather than the temperature in any one year.) It is important to note that the 1.5°

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. The Eligibility List for a given host country will be established under the corresponding implementation agreement.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021. The relevant CFPP owner has a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. These credits are generated by reducing emissions when a CFPP is retired early and replaced with clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas. Coal is the most destructive fossil fuel in terms of its climate impact.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

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%. In 2021, commercial real estate entities JLL and CBRE announced they would pursue achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. million square feet.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Since PPL's last climate assessment report in 2017, the company has taken a number of steps to advance its emissions reductions and overall clean energy transition strategy. The transition to a clean energy future offers us an opportunity to rethink how energy is produced, stored, delivered and used.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. In short, past Energy Futures have modelled climate failure. C pathway.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

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 Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” (2021).

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Brag

JUNE 10, 2021

On June 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) announced that the United States, Denmark, and Norway joined forces with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The appellate court notes that a quarter of Shells production by 2030 is anticipated to derive from fields that were not yet in production in 2021. To keep the objectives of the Paris Agreement within reach, CO2 emissions need to be drastically reduced. Over 50% of its investments until 2023 are expected to go to new fields.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In Germany, after the successful decision from 2021 in Neubauer et al. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. To align itself with the Paris Agreement, Brazil should actually increase its ambition.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

Two notable climate litigation cases, the 2013 Athabaskan petition and the 2021 Cité Soleil petition , are still pending. The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.” This transition has already led to climate litigation.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. The communication cites a 2021 report from the Forest Survey of India which claims the country’s forest cover has expanded.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Despite drastically reducing the use of thermal coal domestically, in 2021 Canada exported over 16 million tonnes of American and Canadian thermal coal through the West Coast. According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021. degrees Celsius (2.7

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. According to figures from the LinkedIn report, in 2021 there was a big jump in the number of job listings requiring green skills, with those ads accounting for half of the total, far more than the global average. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The UN NDC Synthesis Report , which finds that if countries implement their current emission reduction pledges, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, global emissions will increase approximately 8.8% Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2021 followed the distressing trend of excessive heat, as the sixth hottest year on record (a tie with 2018). degrees Celsius, in line with the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). The act aims to create green jobs, reduce fossil fuel consumption and switch to clean energy. Reporting them under the Paris Agreement is voluntary.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

She went to Washington to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury in 2021-2022, and from there went on to join the MIT faculty. Farber: How would you assess the energy policies of the incoming administration? fossil fuel production or on clean energy development?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recognizes 2021 Pennsylvania Great Places [PaEN] -- GASP: Allegheny County Health: Issues Penalty To U.S. 23 Virtual Hearing On Proposed Acquisition Of Lower Makefield Twp. Wastewater System By Aqua PA In Bucks County -- WBTimes: Three Wyoming Valley Levee Gaps Closed In Luzerne County -- PA Chapter American Planning Assn.:

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. withdrawal from Paris Agreement.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Guest Post By Sarah Whipple , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. On November 1, 2021, the United States (U.S.) Biden 2021). Former President Trump left the Paris Agreement on behalf of the U.S. God bless you all, and may God save the planet ” (Biden 2021). November 1, 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. In 2021, EIA reported that coal generated 21.8

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. May 19, 2021). June 3, 2021).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Instead, the bank continued to fund nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects into 2021 according to a report last month endorsed by a global consortium of environmental groups. Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. These six banks alone were responsible for a third of the $1.3

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

In the EOs, President Trump orders federal agencies and personnel to take certain actions or to report back on actions that could be taken in the future that would stifle federal clean energy programs, steer funding away from disadvantaged populations and communities, or both. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

June 15, 2021). Western Energy Alliance v. June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). June 14, 2021).

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite that scrap, the takeaway remains constant — there is no hope of stopping global warming at the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said. Halting at 1.5

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Remaining Spending Bills for FY 2021. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology holds second meeting of the administration, focused on climate, energy and the environment. by Jean Chemnick, E&E News, 10/21/2021. Bill includes $9.49 Executive Branch.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 4, 2022

As we are in the early days of 2022, I could again write that 2021 was the year climate change went mainstream. But nevertheless, it is evident that something did change in 2021…. Hardly any place on Earth was safe from climate-fuelled extreme weather in 2021. By Anders Lorenzen. Another year of extremes.

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