Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

To understand hydroclimate whiplash, it helps to imagine the atmosphere as a giant sponge that will absorb water until it reaches its limit, then wring it out, dropping water to Earth’s surface. These conditions were seen in Texas and contributed to the severity of the recent flash flooding. This results in more droughts.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. The planet has already warmed 1.1

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. Removing carbon from the atmosphere will take a global effort towards significant innovation and rapid implementation. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 By Anders Lorenzen.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. Steven Sherwood, atmospheric physicist, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. C by the end of the century.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. Today that number is 420ppm and rising. billion tonnes of CO2.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. The question is divided into two parts.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

That year, oceanographer Roger Revelle and chemist Hans Suess refuted this objection , demonstrating that the oceans’ absorptive capacity had limits and emissions would therefore lead to higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. 223-224), and that anthropogenic emissions of GHGs do indeed constitute marine pollution (para.

Climate Change

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial.

2023

Physics World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If I find that energy storage is not very profitable, then it’s important for government organizations to know that,” she explains. He is also helping to develop a benchmarking process to assess companies’ progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. Flora Biggins.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 The harm-causing actions to which liability attaches are past emissions, ascribed either to nations or enterprises in proportion to their contribution to the present excess atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2024

Conscious of the “subsidiary” role of the ECtHR and the need to respect democratic decision-making by states in line with the separation of powers, the Court emphasized the discretion or “margin of appreciation” enjoyed by state governments (paras. That is both a weakness of the Paris Agreement but also, some would say, its strength.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The government of Indonesia has taken several bold initiatives to protect and restore critical coastal ecosystems, particularly coral reefs and mangroves,” said Andre Aquino, senior natural resources management specialist at the World Bank’s environment and natural resources global practice, during an online press event.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

This indicates that not only democracy but also litigation to compel governments to reduce GHG emissions is fraught with obstacles. Each tonne of CO 2 emitted into the atmosphere anywhere on Earth at any given time thus had, has and will have an almost identical effect on the average global temperature.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., Scientists have proposed several different ocean CDR techniques that extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it. committed to “[h]olding the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2 o C” and ideally to 1.5

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

Government

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

Climate Change

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. We Need to Act Now! How are Current Governmental Policies Influencing GHG Emissions?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2025

On the other hand, it is perhaps harder to identify customary norms when the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement have near-universal membership, since this makes it difficult to identify State practice and opinio iuris as distinct from treaty compliance. El Salvador asked the Court whether this right is evolving into a peremptory norm.

Law

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

In fact, the impact assessment supporting the Commission’s proposed 2040 target suggests that the EU may need to remove up to 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually by 2040, and significantly more to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.

Fossil Fuels

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them. Geoengineering techniques are often divided into two broad categories.

Carbon Dioxide

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

From beach clean-ups to mass tree-planting to marches, individuals, communities and governments have come out to stand shoulder-to-shoulder for our planet. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap.

2020

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The UN NDC Synthesis Report , which finds that if countries implement their current emission reduction pledges, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, global emissions will increase approximately 8.8% above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. filed June 13, 2017).

2017

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These decisions help implement and operationalize the text of the Paris Agreement, much like regulations clarify statutory law. And though it lasts in the atmosphere for shorter period than CO 2 , cutting methane and other short-lived climate pollutants are critical for bending the curve of warming towards a more livable planet.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

will achieve a 29-42% reduction in GHGs in 2030—a meaningful departure from previous years’ expectations for the US emissions trajectory, but not enough for the US to meet its pledge under the Paris Agreement to reduce emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030.” Something’s not working.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. to 2 o C target set in the Paris Agreement. Another option is to store the carbon dioxide in a way that prevents its release (or re-release) into the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

In recent years, climate litigation has increasingly been used to push governments and others to reduce emissions and invest in adaptation measures (see the Sabin Center’s climate litigation databases here ). International agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, and domestic legislation in the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Coal power generation must be reduced to 80 per cent below 2010 levels by 2030 and be phased out before 2040 in order to meet targets set out by the Paris Agreement. . The federal government has committed to ban thermal coal exports by 2030. This leaves no room for countries like Canada to continue their supply of thermal coal.

Earth Day

Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

If we rely only on the current climate commitments of the Paris Agreement, temperatures can be expected to rise to 3.2°C Australia’s bushfires, for example, will undoubtedly cause a jump in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere this year, and this affects us all. C this century. Temperatures have already increased by 1.1°C,

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention. In the Paris agreement rich countries said they would contribute $100 billion annually.

Paris Agreement