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Greening the `European Green Deal´ - Ambitious or Out of Touch?

Energy and Climate Law

This change shall facilitate two long-term obligations: achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and improving Europe`s contribution to the Paris Agreement. Moreover, via a shift towards growing woody biomass on cropland in a sustainable manner, including as a feedstock for advanced biogas and biofuels (p.12).

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Estimating the impact of ‘eco’ jet fuel: How much could it reduce CO2 emissions by 2050?

Frontiers

One such effort involves the use of so-called ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ (SAF), a mixture of biofuels and petroleum-derived jet fuel. The biofuel element of SAFs is commonly made from crops and are thought to have a lower life-cycle carbon footprint than conventional jet fuel because the crops absorb CO2 when they’re grown.

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U.S., Denmark, And Norway Join Forces In Effort To Achieve Zero-Emission Shipping

Brag

” Supported by the governments of India, Morocco, the United Kingdom, Singapore, France, Ghana, and South Korea, Mission Innovation aims to accelerate the Paris Agreement progress toward net zero emissions.

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Guest Commentary: A new frontier in (Dutch) climate litigation: Greenwashing advertisements on CO2 compensation

Law Columbia

The court case specifically addresses KLM’s so-called “fly responsibly” and “CO 2 ZERO” campaign, advertising that customers can fly “responsibly” by making payments to a GHG compensation scheme, and to a lesser extent, through the purchase of biofuels. C” target of the Paris Agreement.

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Congress Releases New Evidence of Big Oil Climate Disinformation

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil’s ads also showcase the company’s research into making biofuels from algae, another technology that cannot deliver steep cuts in global warming emissions in the crucial period between now and 2030. Shell is a pro with these tactics. Woods repeated this assertion in his formal testimony at the committee’s October hearing.

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Celebrating Climate Wins in the Inflation Reduction Act

Washington Nature

much closer to fulfilling our Paris Agreement commitment of halving emissions by 2030: the funding and programs laid out in the legislation put us on track to cut emissions by about 40% in the next eight years. As we shared here when the bill passed the House in August, the IRA puts the U.S. See what he had to say.