Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timespan. Just as essential to expanding data collection are efforts to broaden data access.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

There is tremendous uncertainty about what policies the federal government will change that will affect electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and sales in the US. Replacing gasoline with electricity greatly reduces the carbon emissions from driving, even when emissions from mining, manufacturing, and generating electricity are included.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal © 2023 by Ocean Visions Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is attracting increased attention as a possible climate change response strategy. ocean alkalinity enhancement ) theoretically able to remove 1 gigaton or more of carbon dioxide annually. degrees Celsius.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Modeling shows that carbon dioxide emissions must reach net zero by 2050 or 2070 to reach these temperature goals. reach its climate goals. o C above pre-industrial levels.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is growing globally. 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.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2022

The culmination of a series of five, virtual, multi-hour discussion group sessions and one presentation from a variety of practitioners in the ocean-based CDR space, the report details potential guidelines for exploring what governance structures, scientific research, and community engagement should look like as practitioners explore the possibility (..)

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report published today by the Sabin Center examines the laws governing international transport of carbon dioxide for sequestration. We focus, specifically, on the shipping of carbon dioxide that was captured in Europe to the United States for sequestration there.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Geologic carbon sequestration—i.e., the storage of carbon dioxide in underground rock formations—has been the subject of much debate in recent years. It is also needed for some carbon dioxide removal (“CDR”) approaches, such as direct air capture, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

He’s just as focused on these shortcuts as he is on promoting false solutions like carbon capture. CNRL is a member of the Pathways Alliance – a tar sands lobby group that is trying to rebrand this polluting industry as a clean one while pushing back against government climate action behind closed doors. Will you join the call?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

We have cost-effective, proven, and reliable solutions that are ready today—including solar, wind, and battery storage—which continue to be underfunded by all levels of government. Background information The Government of Canada is already subsidizing hydrogen. billion by 2028 and $17.7 billion by 2035.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Read the full post from the Government Accountability Office. Coal-fired power plants release carbon dioxide, mercury, and other emissions that can harm human health. Today’s WatchBlog post looks at two of … Continue reading Federal government efforts to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 9, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The Ontario government solicited expert testimony from a known climate change denier to defend its poor record on climate action, in a court challenge brought from seven Ontario youth.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the urgent need the advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a complement to (but not a substitute for) emissions reductions. Carbon dioxide naturally moves between the atmosphere and the oceans surface in an attempt to achieve equilibrium.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Governments, including COP28 host the United Arab Emirates, acknowledge this fact. billion tons of the 40.5 This misleading narrative tries to decouple fossil fuels from climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, but now they can identify the specific sources. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. The book also analyses the domestic laws governing ocean CDR in Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the U.K.,

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On September 27, ADM notified EPA they would be temporarily pausing carbon dioxide inspections after discovering a potential brine fluid leak in their second monitoring well. The story of the first ADM leak was a last-minute addition to the brief that calls on our state government to consider all of the facts on CCS.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

SMR involves using steam to separate the hydrogen from the carbon in methane (CH 4 ). In addition to producing hydrogen, this process results in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other heat-trapping gases.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The project was first proposed in 2021, and has already received government subsidies. This decision is just the latest failure in carbon capture’s terrible track record. It should serve as a lesson for governments on how reckless it is to be using taxpayer dollars to subsidize these projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

In the year since, there have been even more important advances in climate litigation seeking to hold companies and governments accountable for climate harms. Instead of warning the world and transitioning away from fossil fuels, the industry spent the last 50-plus years spreading disinformation and obstructing government action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Geopolitical considerations aside, our current agricultural model is not climate friendly, and the production and use of fertilizers contribute significantly to both carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and non-CO 2 heat-trapping emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane. VY: They do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The consequences of heirs’ property In situations where natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes occur and impact the properties, these families have difficulty accessing FEMA funds or government assistance. As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The United States government is on track to reduce its scope 3 emissions by 30% by 2030,a delegation representing the country said at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan last week. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It’s a bit more difficult to determine the efficiency of an electric bike, as they don’t go through government-mandated testing like gasoline and electric cars do. Shifting 12% of those miles to an e-bike in California would result in the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of avoided carbon dioxide emissions. per 1,000 miles.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec. Power , 564 U.

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