Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. This shareholder revolt seems to have been unprecedented in the company’s history.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe. While it’s clear we need to rapidly reduce gas generation to help limit the worst impacts of climate change, it’s less clear how much fossil gas capacity we actually need to maintain reliability in a future decarbonized grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

C and that the two countries are committed to pursuing “enhanced climate actions that raise ambition in the 2020s in the context of the Paris Agreement.” Chinese leaders and advisors have insisted that the country’s climate program is simply misunderstood (see here and here ). Other statements (e.g., That can’t hurt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 23, 2021

With increasing pressure to fight climate change, scientists, and leaders agree that carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a cost-effective solution to meet emissions goals made under the Paris Agreement. .

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Resilience offers a forward-looking approach to corporate climate action and energy transition strategy. By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And to zoom out a bit, burning fossil fuels is the primary contributor to global climate change, which is driving and exacerbating the once-rare extreme weather events that are impacting people across every part of the country—and across the world. Coal is the most destructive fossil fuel in terms of its climate impact.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. By Lou Del Bello.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 It would be a mistake to assume that the full and final solution to the climate crisis should only be found at the UN climate talks. How far we have come since Paris. degrees C of warming.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

These annual meetings are huge media events — understandably, since they are the highest-level international event on climate change, even if this over-states their importance relative to other ongoing work — but there was a strange vagueness, and near-silence, in reporting on this COP. But this year was different.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Carbon Emissions Emissions goals were set in response to urgent developments in climate science indicating that for the world to meet the 1.5°C C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The second week of COP22 – the 22 nd Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – got underway yesterday in Marrakech. A key focus of the discussions will likely be on financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On November 2, Pittsburgh-based CEOs For Sustainability will hold their annual C-Suite Summit where leaders will highlight their businesses’ actions to transition to a clean energy economy and highlight new insights on a framework for multi-sector regional decarbonization. to noon with networking and registration beginning at 8:00 a.m.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Feeling the cost The letter, coordinated by the non-profit organisation We mean business Coalition, explained that the businesses signed up to their network are feeling the impacts and cost of the increasing wave of extreme weather events as a result of fossil fuel-induced climate change. COP28 begins on the 30th of November.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The full report is available here.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As I arrived in Glasgow in October for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference COP26, along with leaders, advocates and activists from around the globe, it was clear the eyes of world were on us. The recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscored the urgency of action.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Amid this backdrop, Ocean Conservancy delegation is heading to the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai to partake in negotiations working to address these critical issues. And as it currently stands, ocean and ocean-based climate solutions are largely absent from the Global Stocktake.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

The resolution’s purpose is to systematize the human rights obligations of States in the context of the climate crisis to ensure that public policy decisions are made according to a rights-based approach. The resolution builds on this report and the Advisory Opinion No. The resolution builds on this report and the Advisory Opinion No.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While the bipartisan infrastructure bill’s passage late last week was a major step forward, the US must do more to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement and demonstrate leadership in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises. “ For too long, our nation has dragged its feet on a response to the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

On November 30, PPL Corporation released its updated climate assessment report , which highlights risks and opportunities associated with climate change, evaluates potential future emissions and generation mix using scenario analysis, and outlines the company's strategy and goals to enable a responsible transition to a cleaner energy future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly. to 2.8 °C

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Campaign calling on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to block the biggest bank merger in Canadian history that raises significant concerns on housing, affordability, competition, Indigenous rights and climate change, if it’s allowed to proceed. They all have asked the Federal Government to kill the deal.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.” And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the Paris Agreement now seems an uphill task.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

The decarbonisation target prompted a shift towards climate change. A 2022 report on “decarbonisation employment” from the China-based Climate Action Youth Alliance (CAYA) found that while the emissions-related industry had come into being in 2005 with the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, its size remained small.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to release its synthesis of the Sixth Assessment Report early next week. Among the thousands of questions the report addresses by summarizing the latest climate research, one of the most hotly debated is this: Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. With El Niño beginning, natural climate variability will push the already extreme temperatures occurring due to climate change even higher in the coming months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Wherever you live, and if you’ve been following news headlines, you know that climate change is dangerously supercharging extreme weather, with deadly and costly consequences for millions of people around the world. alone is responsible for almost a quarter of the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change, on a cumulative basis.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. Investment in clean energy production and industrial decarbonization rose 15% year-on-year to $61 billion.”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

And if we did nothing to address climate change and just left the flower there alone, would not the flower go extinct anyhow?” Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This year’s annual global climate negotiations, COP29, concluded with an inadequate commitment on climate finance which countered the Paris Agreement’s foundational principles of global climate justice. Mitigating climate change by ending pollution from oil and gas is the only way to reduce these damages.

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