Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2022

Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a twenty year cycle, and accounts for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. The importance of methane … Continue reading Methane Reduction Potential in the EU Between 2020 and 2030.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. Right now, Canada is on track to miss its 2030 climate targets, mainly due to the increases in oil and gas emissions. The framework is by no means perfect.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health. When burnt, that amount of coal would produce 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of 8.7

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world. The earthquake and tsunami had a great impact on Japanese energy policy, leading to the shutdown of nuclear power plants for safety reasons. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, responsible for fully 25 percent of warming. First, as a greenhouse gas, it is 20 to 85 times as potent as CO2. California, once again, as a sub-national government, leads the way with a 40% emission reduction target for 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

The energy used by commercial buildings is responsible for 16% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and costs more than $190 billion per year. ENERGY STAR certified buildings use an average of 35% less energy and are responsible for 35% less carbon dioxide emissions than typical buildings.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. from Scope 1 sources only?)

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. During this period of greenhouse gas reductions, the energy needs of the wastewater sector are projected to climb, due to population growth and tightening water-quality standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. g /MJ and a carbon intensity of 36.4 Pavlenko, Y.H.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The latest science coming from a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Washington (UW) highlights ways nature can help Washington achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by midcentury. million metric tons of CO2 annually by midcentury, accounting for over 9 percent of the state’s net-zero goal.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Fortunately, the federal government is developing new regulations to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 75 per cent by 2030. Why is that such a big deal?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

These measures led to a reduction of 78,650 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equal to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 15,878 gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or 182,909,597 miles. From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The court found that complainants’ fundamental rights were not violated preemptively because the federal legislator, not the state legislatures, are subject to a carbon dioxide emissions budget. In Australia and New Zealand, plaintiffs failed to establish that there is a government’s duty of care to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. A later post will cover the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) Carbon Reduction Plan. January 4, 2023. The draft N.C.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2021

New technologies that capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as steel and cement making will be vital if the EU is to meet its goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and down to zero by 2050. Read the full story in Horizons.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

The rationale for this focus on the Ambition Gap is clear – despite the proliferation of net-zero pledges over recent years, governments’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remain “ woefully insufficient to meet the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement ”. The gap between countries’ 2030 targets and 1.5°C

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Steel is intensifying efforts to become an industry leader in lower-carbon production methods,” Masciantonio said. “We We have been progressing on our 2030 goal to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20%, and in April 2021, we announced an ambitious goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.”

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions? That includes both carbon dioxide and methane, since methane is a very potent greenhouse gas that all oil and gas facilities emit.

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

o C change by 2100 also implies net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 leading to somewhat nearer-term implications. These long-lived assets also emit greenhouse gasses or produce goods that do. A firm’s target for 2030 should, in principle, imply something about how it will achieve that target in the interim.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

While the impact of academic travel on climate change is indisputable, over the last few years a number of physicists have found that their computer usage can make up a huge part of their carbon footprint – sometimes even more than air travel. Just ask Adam Stevens , an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. The rule will substantially increase vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. The rule will also increase upstream greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. billion for competitive implementation grants.

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A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

“This is bound to affect crops like maize, too, which is sensitive to temperature and moisture,” he says, cautioning that global maize yields are expected to decline by as much as 24% by 2030. While rice yields are expected to decline due to rising temperatures, rice paddies are also among the biggest emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

Such a sensor could replace the manual sniffer tests currently used in oil and gas exploration to spot leaks of this greenhouse gas, and QLM chief executive Murray Reed says the company is set to produce handheld units costing less than £1000 within the next few months.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. By mid-century onwards, as much as 1 billion tonnes of carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere each year.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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