Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

He was invited to speak at a high-level meeting convened by the COP Presidency—an unparalleled opportunity to personally cultivate political leaders from around the world and attempt to define the terms of the energy transition in ways that perpetuate reliance on fossil fuel products and grow corporate profits.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

The scientists voice concerns that we are alarmingly off track from the commitment signed by 140 world leaders in 2021 at the COP26 UN climate summit, which pledged to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030. The WRI calls for greater political will and a more dedicated focus on climate adaptation to initiate the reversal of forest losses.

2024

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

GW by 2030]. This means that when it comes to renewables replacing gas, there has always been resistance, whether its in terms of under-the-table politics or influencing decision makers. With the current plan, this seems impossible. For Thailand to go net-zero by 2050, it needs around 250 GW of solar power.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

This blog explores how Chile is navigating this complex terrain, examining the environmental impacts of lithium mining, the legal and political responses to social resistance, and the deeper tensions between economic ambition, Indigenous rights, and ecological stewardship. After this point, Codelco will assume full control.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What the science says is needed for international climate finance As a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) points out, the goal of tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 that countries agreed to last year in Dubai requires investments on the order of $1.5 trillion per year by 2030.”

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. Yet, laws are meant to address the short-termism of politics, i.e., by ensuring credible climate commitments that endure beyond election cycles. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

Climate Change

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).

Paris Agreement

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.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

.; Electricity Bills Are Projected To Surge 20% This Summer [ PDF of Article ] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Amazon Building 2 New Data Centers In Pennsylvania -- Reuters: EIA Forecasts Record Power Use In 2025, 2026 As Natural Gas Generation Slides, Renewables Increase -- Utility Dive: PJM Market Monitor Urges FERC To Set Conditions (..)

2026

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

Part of that is, I think, an overreading of the election results, thinking that affordability means all environmental policies are to be slowed or scrapped, or a willingness to lean toward Trumps side of the issue, Segall said, calling it a catastrophic political misperception. said Martinez.

Law

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% Initiatives like the Renovagro Plan aim to reduce over one billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024. However, historical policies contributed to significant forest loss, with 54.2

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. We need all levels of government and the private sector to turn the dial down on global warming by rapidly reducing heat trapping emissions. goal alive.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, the corporation pushes technological solutions that cant bend the emissions curve steeply downward in the critical period between now and 2030. Unlike Tillerson or Trump, current ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods professes to support the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2025

Political appointees across the Trump Administration were busy the past few weeks trying to meet that quota and dismissed members, canceled meetings , and disbanded some committees altogether. How confident can people be that their populations are proportionately and appropriately represented in the results of the 2030 Census?

Government

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

8] In 2021, a court in the Hague found that Royal Dutch Shell violated its fiduciary duties under Dutch law by failing to address its climate risk adequately and ordered the company to reduce CO 2 emissions by net 45% by the end of 2030 against a 2019 baseline. [9] Fiduciary duties must change, even if that will be difficult. Ripple, et al.,

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] -- The Derrick: Solar Energy Projects Take Shape In Venango County [ PDF of Article ] -- The Allegheny Front: Pittsburgh 2030 District Buildings Reduce Carbon Emissions By 50% -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Technology Requires Time That (..)

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lets look at Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who shares many political views with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (at least until the current spat over using oil as leverage with President Trumps threatened tariffs). That was then and this is now, and today Ontario faces a growing political challenge – affordability.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Curtis argued in a recent Deseret News op-ed , that the bill must not end all clean energy tax credits because “we simply cannot afford to treat good policy ideas as guilty by political association.” passenger vehicle sales in 2030, a severe cut from the 48% it estimated in last year’s report.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) launched a tougher net zero standard for banks, asset managers and insurance companies that would require these institutions to end financing for firms that are expanding coal projects immediately and for those expanding oil and gas projects by 2030, Joe Lo reports for Climate Home News.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. She said how she documented pollution from a number of wells and reported it to DEP, but they have yet to be addressed by the agency. “It It is my hope that one year from now I do not have to come back to Harrisburg to say that nothing has changed again.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2025

Projected Load Increase The letter notes that PJM’s 2025 Long-Term Load Forecast (PDF) predicts a peak load growth of 32 GW from 2024 to 2030, with about 30 GW of that coming from data centers. Visit PJM’s Critical Issue Fast Path - Large Load Additions webpage for more information.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 17, 2025

Any political leader who is threatening to do away with these rules is catering to corporate interests over the public good. Background Information: According to the Canadian Climate Institute , industrial carbon pricing will do more to cut climate pollution between now and 2030 than any other policy.

2030

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2025

And, forget that the US is well on its way to being energy independent , with a stated goal of being so by 2030. And still, Alberta’s political leaders continue to try and sell yesterday’s ideas as a solution to the problems that plague us today.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell has released energy outlooks this year projecting global gas demand to rise 60% by 2040 and corresponding plans to increase its gas business 20-30 percent by 2030. Together, these political forces effectively suppress the investor rights that are a pillar of our market-based economy and protect the financial system.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

The company also is preparing in 2030 to install four 300-megawatt small modular reactors at Palisades that it is designing and building at the companys plant in Camden, N.J. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

It has been hailed as the biggest and most significant policy framework ever approved in the US political system. A few months later, in a special Earth Day climate summit, Biden announced several new initiatives, including the pledge to halve US emissions by 2030 and increase its UN-focussed nationally determined contributions (NDS).

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

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Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- The Derrick: List Of Nearly 300 Military Veterans Who Have Died In Venango, Clarion And Forest Counties Since Last Memorial Day -- Gov. Shapiro -- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: DCED Analysis: PA Secured $5.2 Ohio- $3.05

Politics

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. And there are lessons from previous environmental protests relevant to the current political moment, as others have noted. Anyone else doing this? In April when Sen.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The law is going to reduce economic growth, and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia combined, it will wipe out about 45,000 jobs by 2030 and over 57,000 jobs by 2035, according to one analysis. It will also wipe out about 30 gigawatts of planned generation capacity in those three states, and risk a power supply shortfall.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 2020, Looney set out an eye-opening plan to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030 and ramp up renewable energy investments. Many influential insiders were uncomfortable with such a drastic departure from oil and gas, not least Murray Auchincloss, who took over as CEO following Looneys resignation.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

The US Nationally Determined Contribution is a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030}. As that goes to show, politics can outweigh constituent interests. Those things are still true now. There was some variation from our forecast, with less investment in wind and more in solar than expected.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Trump Signed One Damn Dirty Deal I have to admit I was wrong when I wrote in 2023 that repealing the Inflation Reduction Act was politically impossible because it was “a candy shop” for corporations and red states hungry for manufacturing jobs who would fight any repeal effort.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

However, the group has not yet made any concrete plans for funding new-energy-vehicle projects, and coal phase-out plans are also behind schedule: South Africa’s national electricity company, Eskom, has delayed the planned decommissioning of three coal power plants until March 2030, citing energy security concerns.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

Cap-and-trade California lawmakers are preparing to take a good, robust look at the states cap-and-trade program in the process of reauthorizing it past 2030, the head of the State Assemblys working group told Politico’s California Climate at a live event this week.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

TODAY 4:30: Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session. Contact: Randy Martin at ramartin@pa.gov or 717-772-5828. formal notice ) TODAY 11:00: Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. to 2:00 p.m. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JUNE 6, 2025

China has announced plans to put astronauts on the Moon by 2030, and on Mars after that. Whatever NASA, Congress and Trump decide, the current political uncertainty is a huge challenge, Harrison says. So some scientists are determined to make the best of it.

Radiation