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. Since the International Energy Agency shows that methane from oil and gas must fall by 77 percent by 2030, these companies will have to cut back their oil and gas production sharply. We can’t just tweak the current system.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate Action Act is adopted, with a 2050 net-zero target and 55% cuts by 2030 compared with 1990. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Renewables are 42% of electricity. Carbon emissions are 707 billion tons, a 30% cut below 1990 emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water. He said that game changers will be those supported by money or political power, or those that can be applied at scale, across multiple areas. But the failures are just as glaring.

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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. 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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 21, 2024

But in 2014, following years of severe and protracted California drought, and both agricultural and urban water users compensating for depleted surface water flows by pumping groundwater in unprecedented amounts, a fragile political consensus emerged among California legislators, water districts and environmentalists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Furthermore, climate responses, both practical and political, are viewed and acted upon through a cultural lense. The same is true at the decision-making and political levels, where Indigenous and local communities have not had the platform to speak for themselves, rather than mediated through the voices of others.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

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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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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

JULY 25, 2023

The latter policy requires a 40% reduction of methane emissions across all sectors by 2030. Right now, oil companies have political power sufficient to preclude a change in liability that would result in oil industry obligation. These include the Landfill Methane Regulation , SLCP Reduction Strategy , 2022 Scoping Plan , and SB 1383.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The current rules require a 20 percent reduction in the CI of transportation fuels by 2030, which the proposed amendments would change to 30 percent in 2030 and 90 percent in 2045. CARB has also proposed an auto-acceleration mechanism, which could see the 2030 stringency rise to 34.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

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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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Another major win was reviving the process to identify Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), which are essential for achieving the 30×30 target—protecting 30% of land and marine areas by 2030. As we look toward 2030, COP16’s outcomes provide a foundation, but the true test lies in action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations. The Legislature should enact policies that cap individual utility bills if household income is below a certain level and increase the amount of compensation available to low-income customers who suffer outages.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

million tons of CO 2 -equivalent between 2019 and 2030, including 2.2-3.1 Such claims were considered political and not part of the courts role in administering justice (rttskipning). The omission could also be a reflection of the politically sensitive nature of climate change litigation based on the ECHR.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit. degrees Fahrenheit.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By the end of next year, the commission must to develop a plan for reaching these goals involving the “least cost path.”. There are also specific provisions for specific sources of generation.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As part of Environmental Defences mission to inform voters about crucial environmental issues, weve put together a list of seven things that we believe all political parties should put in their election platforms to strengthen clean transportation options in Ontario. Ontarios provincial election is on February 27.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

Czech Republic ), finding that the European Union (EU)s commitment to reduce emissions by 55 percent by 2030 is a collective obligation, not an individual one for Czechia. percent reduction by 2030. In the EU Member States, cases referring to the 55% target have appeared also in Spain and Belgium. 267 TFEU was not commenced).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The presentation was timely because the latest framework for the global goal on adaptation (GGA) which was agreed upon at COP28 included specific commitments on protecting cultural heritage to be undertaken by countries in 2030, so the information the IPCC can provide before then will be important.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

The most dramatic feature of the bill is that it will mostly ban new gas cars in Washington as of 2030. In a national political system that remains riven by polarization, that could turn out to be a saving grace of our system of government. On the weekend weekend, Governor Jay Inslee signed a major transportation bill. Download as PDF.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen A coalition of Danish political parties and the three parties making up the coalition government have had their Green Tripartite adopted by the Danish Parliament (Folketinget).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2024

Mandy Steele (D-Allegheny) [Conventional Well Industry Paid $4,400 Into Well Plugging Fund So Far In 2024] -- Courier Times Guest Essay: Natural Gas Fuels Pennsylvania’s Economy, And Our Climate Progress - By PA Chamber Of Business & Industry -- WBOY: 3 West Virginia Families Say They Abandoned Their Homes After Experiencing Medical Issues From (..)

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

That initiative would have authorized CalRecycle to adopt and enforce regulations requiring that 80 percent of single-use plastic packaging and food service ware, as compared to 2020 levels, be recyclable, compostable, or source reduced by 2030, with an additional requirement that 25 percent of the waste be source reduced.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That deadline is eight years earlier than the original goal of 2030. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and consits of heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission. The three countries that will take over the presidency from 1 July 2020 drew up a unified action programme for the coming years.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 15, 2023

Passionate about outcomes, not just hosting another talk shop, organizers emphasize mobilizing the political and financial action so desperately needed to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. But we also don’t have time to fail.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

California is behind on meeting its 2030 climate goals, and much of the culprit is due to rising transportation emissions from more driving. The evidence is clear. We also face a brutal housing shortage, leading to a mass exodus of residents to high-polluting states, pervasive homelessness, and stark income inequalities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Senate Bill (SB) 271 requires utilities to achieve, at a minimum, renewable energy-generated electricity sales of 50 percent in 2030 and 60 percent in 2035. Going forward, Michigan policymakers must incorporate these policies, which will mean standing up to utilities and other corporate interests. What’s In the Bills?

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. Between 2020 and 2030 the European Commission (EC) has said that electricity grid investments would need to reach €584 billion to meet the renewable energy goals. Made in Europe The crisis is particularly biting in Europe’s offshore wind sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. That means intensifying climate action and dramatically curbing the production of heat-trapping emissions by 45 percent before 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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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. The use of coal as a source of energy should be phased out by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Required reforms are under way, and the first PJM plan under those new rules will be ready in…wait for it… 2030 ! We just need to bring the political will. For starters, the energy, climate and water issues exacerbated by data center demand need to be priced into the data business. We have the ways and means to do that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It says that just outcomes require full political participation, recognition of the underlying social drivers of privilege and oppression, and an understanding of the uneven distribution of impacts across space and time. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory. I restructured my Ph.D.

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