Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. At COP27, 636 registered attendees are lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A target of 45 to 50 per cent reductions from 2005 levels by 2035 represents no meaningful increase in ambition from Canadas current 2030 target. These will only keep increasing unless Canada seriously commits to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. Targets matter. Canadians are calling for governments to do just that.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s possible for fossil-fuel demand to peak before the end of the decade, but emissions would still remain high enough to increase the global average temperature by more than two degrees Celsius, according to the World Energy Outlook

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Transformative action every year until 2030 is our only chance to keep 1.5°C Renewable energy technologies are rapidly advancing, becoming increasingly competitive and, in many cases, becoming cheaper in cost and more efficient than fossil fuels. C within reach.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While companies post record profits, Canadians are paying more for essentials like groceries, insurance, and health care as a result of both the climate crisis as well as the affordability crisis driven in part by fossil fuel profits. However, for the cap to be truly effective, the draft regulations must be strengthened.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2021

We need to quickly transition to a clean energy future in Illinois to prevent additional negative public health impacts from fossil fuel plants. The Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) HB 0804/ SB1718 is the only bill that puts Illinois on a path to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable energy by 2050.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. This table shows how much power is generated from fossil fuels by the top ten utilities (ranked by market value). There was more fuel oil in use in some places than I expected. Carbon Goal.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In September 2020, Xi Jinping announced goals to peak emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. In December 2020, he added further detail on commitments for 2030 (carbon intensity, non-fossil energy share, forest stock, and wind and solar installed capacity). Another study by Duan, et al.

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Yale E360

APRIL 20, 2022

In an effort to reduce imports of Russian coal and gas, the European Union is weighing a more ambitious renewable energy target, aiming to generate 45 percent of the bloc's power from renewables by 2030, instead of 40 percent, the current goal. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 28, 2022

Consumers’ approach is also in line with the MI Healthy Climate Plan’s goal to phase out Michigan’s remaining coal-fired power plants by 2030. It also examined a scenario in which all of Michigan’s coal plants—including DTE Energy’s Monroe plant—retire by 2030. Consumers’ plan wisely avoids that risky path. Let’s get to work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Tricky math on heat-trapping emissions The report reiterates ExxonMobil’s 2030 emissions reduction targets, the headliner being a 20-30% reduction in corporate-wide intensity. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 billion per year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some estimates suggest they could disappear by 2030 due to the climate change triggered by human fossil fuel use, which began less than 200 years ago. The prediction that all of the park’s glaciers could be gone by 2030 felt painfully real as we looked out over the landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. What the Supreme Court decided in West Virginia v. That’s for two reasons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

3) ExxonMobil predicted the possibility of linking rising temperatures to fossil fuels ExxonMobil researchers accurately predicted when it would become possible to attribute changes in climate to human activity. Such a constraint would clearly place a limit on the amount of fossil fuels ExxonMobil could extract, produce and market.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota Power’s vision is to provide 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2050, achieve 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030, and eliminate coal burning by 2035.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Joining an ever growing list of countries from around the world, Canada pledged to end public financing for overseas fossil-fuel projects in 2022 and instead prioritize the clean energy transition. This sends an important signal to investors and people around the world that the sun is setting on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

Diablo Canyon is now Californias last operational nuclear power plant, but its currently slated to shut down by 2030. The analysis included new nuclear power plants as an option, with an LCOE starting at $89 per MWh (with federal subsidies, or $119 per MWh without) in 2030 and declining slightly over time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Some of those, such as the public health and climate benefits, depend on the clean energy displacing the dirty stuff—avoiding increases in fossil fuel generation or, even better, displacing existing generation. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons. But it is a solid foundation to build on.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. That’s generally — but not always — going to be firms “utilizing” fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2022

A key member of the European Union (EU) has voiced concerns about the EU’’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels and the consequences thereof. . Virginijus Sinkevicius, the EU’s environment commissioner, said that EU member states’ reliance on Russian fossil fuels in financing Russia’s “war chest”.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact? The Court overturned a landmark ruling that had required Shell, whose energy sales in 2023 were 91% derived from major GHG sources, to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. Nonetheless, the Court ruled that Milieudefensie et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

But given the growth of the economy, carbon emissions were projected to continuing growing steadily through 2030. In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems. My last post argued that EPA should immediately repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

It means committing to incentives and standards that clearly align with the trajectory we need to be on across all sectors of the economy—both valuing the beneficial aspects of clean energy resources, and accounting for the negative effects of polluting fossil fuels. to 80 percent of electricity from zero-carbon resources by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Allowing for more cheap renewable energy to meet demand, and addressing areas where the grid is vulnerable will provide fuel savings, avoided risk of controlled blackouts, and reductions in fossil fuel pollution. This development will create almost 32,000 jobs while providing enough energy to power more than 1.8 million homes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Nearly 200 countries at UN climate summit in Glasgow also commit to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions reductions plans next year, keeping the door open to crucial 1.5°C C temperature goal

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

billion of hydropower investments by 2030. Fossil fuels 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 Agua del Toro dam in Mendoza, Argentina. The plan targets US$2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists commissioned power flow modeling to study the effects of retiring Illinois fossil fuel plants connected to PJM , the regional grid operator serving the northern part of the state. PowerGEM , an independent consulting firm, conducted the analysis for us, using the same data and process PJM uses.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 28, 2024

New studies suggest global warming boosts natural methane releases, which could undermine efforts to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas from fossil fuels and agriculture.

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