Energy and Climate Law

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. How is that going to happen? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Here’s what’s on the agenda at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and why it matters.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In sharp contrast with their American counterparts, British conservatives remain firmly behind the Paris Agreement and supportive of cap-and-trade. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. At least 70% of electricity must come from renewables in 2030. Committed to net-zero by 2030.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. As always, the poor will be the most vulnerable to climate change. Unfortunately, there are doubts about how much progress Mexico will make in cutting emissions.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The supreme administrative court declared the three municipalities’ petition admissible, given their proven inescapable exposure to the effects of climate change in the future (a very strong risk already for the 2030 decade), especially to floods and droughts. The government has three months to provide these elements.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

China did not sign onto the global methane pledge to reduce methane emissions 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels, but in the joint declaration announced an intention to “develop a comprehensive and ambitious National Action Plan on methane, aiming to achieve a significant effect on methane emissions control and reductions in the 2020s.”

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 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. Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. 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.

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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. Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Paris Agreement followed at COP21 in 2015 and introduced a goal of holding global temperature increases to below 2°C, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature to 1.5°C. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand.

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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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New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Standing a chance of staying under the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5°C C of warming would require annual emissions in 2030 to be 28 billion tonnes lower than what countries' plans and pledges ahead of COP26 deliver

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments. Fossil fuel production and products harm public health.

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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. Coal generation also remains 10 percent of the US mix through 2050 even as EIA is showing substantial coal plant retirements by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Standing a chance of staying under the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5°C C of warming would require annual emissions in 2030 to be 28 billion tonnes lower than what countries' plans and pledges ahead of COP26 deliver

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Losses and damages caused by climate change to intangible cultural heritage such as Indigenous and local knowledge, and traditional agricultural practices have been vastly underestimated in discussions of Paris Agreement implementation. This needs to change. Even this is a drop in the bucket.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Here, we define the Ambition Gap as the difference between the emissions reductions expected from a government’s planned policies and pledges, and those required to meet the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, in light of best available science. The gap between countries’ 2030 targets and 1.5°C

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Countries will submit new commitments, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), required under the Paris Agreement over the coming months. Transformative action every year until 2030 is our only chance to keep 1.5°C The levels of ambition of these plans will determine the pace of global climate action for years to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

It is also a critical part of their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. And, of course, the US must secure policies to deliver on its commitment to cut its heat-trapping emissions 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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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. In late 2023, LSEW committed “to being net zero by 2030” in its operations. These include UN Race to Zero and the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

According to the IPCC, global emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and IEA research shows it can be done. The US has pledged to cut its emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030—though we have yet to secure the policies to deliver on that goal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule. degrees Celsius.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

A recent UCS analysis examined pathways for meeting carbon reduction requirements in line with the Paris Agreement through 2050. Steadily phasing out our use of oil will not only free us from price volatility and pollution but cut off the flow of funds to these bad actors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2024

Additional policies could help put the US’s target under the Paris Agreement within reach, to cut emissions … Continue reading Pathways to net-zero: US emissions beyond 2030

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The analysis showed that the promised action would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 9% this decade, far short of the global goal to cut emissions by nearly half by 2030. During the UN climate talks in Paris in 2015 and the adoption of the Paris Agreement, it was agreed that emissions should not exceed 1.5

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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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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The trio wants to submit an Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) update to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2020, in line with EU obligations under the Paris agreement. However, this shall only be done `after a thorough impact assessment´( p.18

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 21, 2022

During the last federal election, for the first time, the government promised to ban thermal coal exports from and through Canada no later than 2030. Though a good start, waiting until 2030 is just too late. . There is no excuse to continue exporting coal until 2030. degree goal of the Paris Agreement.

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