Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This assessment wasn’t ExxonMobil’s idea, but was compelled by a successful shareholder resolution that was part of a 2021 investor revolt against the industry’s climate inaction that ultimately displaced several members of ExxonMobil’s Board of Directors. ExxonMobil’s withdrawal from IPAA is certainly a positive development.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. While the Tokyo High Court recognized the danger of climate change, it did not address the citizens claim that approval of the project was inconsistent with the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Their efforts have paid off: The 27 resolutions demanding increased disclosure that went to a vote in 2021 averaged approximately 40 percent support, according to investment management firm Boston Trust Walden. The second largest beneficiary of ExxonMobil’s largesse in 2020 was the US Chamber of Commerce.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This is where the analysis behind AEO2022 dates itself to November 2021. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

1/ — doreen stabinsky (@doreenstabinsky) November 11, 2021. This is a very important result, and one that underlies the recent pledges to achieve net-zero by 2030/2040/2050 etc. coming as part of the upgrade to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the COP26 meeting. But is net-zero the same as climate denial? My answer is no.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. A truly scary prospect.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — November 8, 2021. That is more ambitious than earlier pledges, but it still exceeds the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 The world doesn’t spend nearly enough adapting to the risks of climate change, a U.N. report found. According to the U.N degrees above pre-industrial levels. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Sharp r eductions needed in gas generation to meet US climate goals Under the Paris Agreement, the United States has committed to reducing heat-trapping emissions to 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reaching net zero emissions no later than 2050.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The Republic of Vanuatu spearheaded this initiative in a 2021 announcement supported by grassroots youth groups. Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

Attention to the link between climate change and the law of the sea increased significantly with the formation of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law ( COSIS ) by Antigua and Barbuda and Tuvalu in 2021. The Convention and the Paris Agreement are separate agreements, with separate sets of obligations.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. presidential envoy on climate change, summarized all of this in a speech to the ABA’s 2021 annual meeting. “You LSEW adopted a similar resolution in 2021.

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25. That depends on our emissions and is shown in the following figure. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. In recent years, the costs of wildfires have skyrocketed. And this is only a small portion of total costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

The suit seeks to hold them personally liable for failing to adopt and implement a climate strategy that aligns with the Paris agreement. In March, a first-of-its-kind case was announced against Shell’s board of directors. Failure to lead an effective transition, the suit argues, is a breach of board duties under the UK Companies Act.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” trillion or 6.8 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2021

Sustainable building and refrigeration solutions company Carrier announced today the release of its 2021 ESG Report, which includes a commitment by the company to set science-based emission reduction targets, aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming this century. Read more →

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. .

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Sysco will work to lower scope 3 emissions throughout its supply chain by partnering with its highest-emitting suppliers to establish sustainability targets in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2026, according to the company’s 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

Despite being “energy independent” on a net basis, the US imported about 40% of the crude and petroleum products it consumed in 2021 and exported a similar amount. A recent UCS analysis examined pathways for meeting carbon reduction requirements in line with the Paris Agreement through 2050.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2024

In its interpretation of the content of UNCLOS provisions, the Tribunal referred to the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) , the Kyoto Protocol , the Paris Agreement , MARPOL , the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Montreal Protocol , including the Kigali Amendment. Consider the above example of Yemen.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. As noted in a 2021 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report , these approaches have the potential for substantial carbon sequestration, but key questions remain about their efficacy, benefits, and risks.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The 2021 Global Coal Exit List reveals the sluggish pace of the coal phase-out among major coal firms. above pre-industrial levels, the high ambition goal set by the Paris Agreement. “As Photo credit: Evgenii Parilov / Alamy. By Nora Sausmikat & Karin Ganswindt. Gas power should not be an option.

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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. Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Worldwide, nature’s power to breathe, filter and store carbon dioxide can provide more than 1/3 of emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris Agreement target, according to a pioneering study by The Nature Conservancy and partners. Forest Ecology and Management 482 (2021): 118886. PeerJ 9 (2021): e11802. Kristina V.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

To avoid a “climate break down” the international community has to close the gap between countries’ collective emission reduction targets and the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to between 1.5 and “well below” 2°C. For further elaboration on this idea, see LRI’s legal assistance paper, Unilateral Declarations.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

of the Paris Agreement establishes a “Global Goal on Adaptation” (GGA), committing Parties to the tasks of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate response in the context of the temperature goal.”

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

While countries generally do not explicitly reference CDR in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the Paris Agreement, many include the CDR approaches of increasing soil and forest carbon. In the US, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) authorized the Department of Energy to spend $3.5

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

On 1 July the rotating presidency of the European Council is moving for one and a half years to Germany (1/July/2020), Portugal (1/January/2021) and Slovenia (1/July/2021). We take a look at their agenda and critically assess whether or not it can bring about a boost for the energy transition in times of COVID-19.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The targets agreed to during the landmark COP21 summit in Paris in 2015 of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and which subsequently lead to the Paris Agreement, is in danger of not being met. It now looks like a distant pipedream. Emissions bouncing back.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. Green Shipping.

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