Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It has not even been a month ago that the President of the European Commission Urula von der Leyen in her state of the Union speech announced plans of the Commission to sharpen the 2030 climate goals for the reduction of European Greenhouse Gas Emmissions (GHGs) to 55% compared to 1990 levels. It argues: `However, (.)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. This week the European Commission decided in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis to propose an amendment of its GHG-reduction goals for 2030. But given considerable issues with details of the plan, question marks are looming.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

warming limit in the early 2030s. threshold between 2030 and 2052, if current warming trends continue. On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. In 2018, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C might be reached. What did the previous SR1.5

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Zero coal by 2035, 24 GW solar/wind by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050, including upstream and downstream emissions. Net zero by 2030, 50% cut from 2007 by 2030. Net zero emissions from operations, 50% cut from 2000 by 2030. 80% by 2050, 60% by 2030 (2000 baseline). 87% cut 2030, zero coal by 2034.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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Legal Planet

JULY 3, 2024

Executive Order N-82- 20 prompted California’s 30X30 commitment to conserve 30% of the state’s land and coastal waters by 2030 and spurred the development of state strategies around nature-based solutions that also support vital habitat and climate resilience. The recently passed state budget delays SERP ’s sunset date until January 1, 2030.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Rather than simply preventing companies from increasing their emissions, the new law requires annual 5% emission cuts in emissions through 2030.

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Clean Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Governor’s office states that the regulations will achieve more than a 35% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and an 80% improvement in NOx emissions from cars statewide. In other words, CARB has been directed to strengthen and extend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program beyond 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Click Here for a copy of the 2020 Corporate Responsibility Repor t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2021

On May 20th, CARB will vote on the Clean Miles Standard, a first-of its kind regulation that would require ridehailing companies like Uber and Lyft to electrify their fleets by 2030.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The post New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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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. Download the document.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. There are some aggressive milestone requirements: 35% of new vehicles must be electric by 2026 and 68% in 2030. Other states can then piggyback on California’s efforts.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

by 2030 and globally by 2035. In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S.

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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. billion of solar energy investments by 2030, which could provide 3.1

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

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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

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Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill has set science-based targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. . The post How Chipotle Will Reduce its Carbon Emissions 50% By 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2022

Rolls-Royce is committed to designing products that be compatible with net-zero operation by 2030. It says that all of its products will be compatible with carbon neutrality by 2050 -- an expensive goal but one that will create value.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

As others have noted ( here and here ), the IPCC’s “final warning” before 2030 was billed as a major news event but saw mixed reception from news editors. “In the near term, global warming is more likely than not to reach 1.5 C even under the very low GHG emission scenario,” the IPCC report says. You know what doesn’t make news?

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Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill has set science-based targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. . The post How Chipotle Will Reduce its Carbon Emissions 50% By 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since the Pavley Act passed in 2002, California has been a leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. The goal was to eliminate conventional pollutants, not greenhouse gases. Brown updates the state’s ZEV goal to 5 million by 2030. CARB’s target is for 68% of 2030 model cars be EVs.

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JULY 1, 2022

Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Unfortunately, those ominous signs were right on the mark.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 1, 2022

It expects to be halfway there by 2030 and 80% of the way there by 2040. The post 3M Has Cut its Greenhouse Gases by 71% Over Two Decades. 3M is committing to becoming carbon neutral across its global operations by 2050. It will invest $1 billion over 20 years to meet those goals and improve its water efficiency and reduce waste.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On September 21, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced DCNR will produce or purchase 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. gigawatt hours of electricity by 2030 with a plan to have the department produce 15.5 DCNR expects to use 28.7

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Chevron’s board of directors said that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.” For many companies and sectors, a greenhouse gas inventory that omits Scope 3 would be materially misleading to investors,” the letter states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035. This grows to almost $1.3

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

The latter policy requires a 40% reduction of methane emissions across all sectors by 2030. These include the Landfill Methane Regulation , SLCP Reduction Strategy , 2022 Scoping Plan , and SB 1383. The rest of the world is starting to catch up. The EU and US sponsored the Global Methane Pledge , which now has 150 signatories worldwide.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

plastics industry is the source of 232 million tons of greenhouse gases per year, 15 million tons of which comes from burning plastics in municipal waste. “We A report published Thursday from Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit working to end single-use plastic pollution, finds that the U.S. We are in a climate crisis,”… Read more →

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JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. It’s the only forward course.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here too, the picture is bleak: with the current NDCs, by 2030 we will have nearly run out of the budget to have a 50 percent chance of keeping the temperature increase below 1.5?C. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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