Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Pitting climate and energy against each other is an insidious lie.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The heavyweight global companies, such as Nestle, Unilever, the Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars, are just some of the leading signatures of a letter sent ahead of COP28 to world leaders, which calls on agreeing a timeline to phase out fossil fuels. COP28 begins on the 30th of November.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. It’s worth delving into because it has some important implications for our clean energy future.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time, Ocean Conservancy attended the annual International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly to help advance a just clean-energy transition.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the end of the beginning of the campaign against them. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Wider repercussions, including the inequitable impacts of rising food and energy prices and the potential for a food crisis hitting vulnerable populations around the world, must also be urgently addressed by global leaders. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. This shows that we are getting nearer to consigning the fossil fuel industry to history, even though there’s still a long way to go. Of those fossil fuels, coal will be the first to go.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. Transformative change to our energy system is needed if we are to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean. Now is a critical time for our ocean, which has long protected us from the worst impacts of climate change by absorbing much of the excess heat produced by the continued burning of fossil fuels.

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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. Five years down the line, countries were scheduled to return to the forum and finalise a rulebook on how to implement the Paris Agreement. By Lou Del Bello. On the agenda at COP26.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels. In 2022, fossil fuels accounted for about 95% of electricity generation, and about 48% of the fossil fuels used were imported, putting the country at high risk of price shocks and supply shortages.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The relevant CFPP owner has a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. These credits are generated by reducing emissions when a CFPP is retired early and replaced with clean energy. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023). These credits must meet global standards such as the Core Carbon Principles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When countries signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement, they made initial voluntary commitments (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) to reduce their heat-trapping emissions, and agreed to revisit them every five years to reflect the “highest possible ambition.” (see of the Paris Agreement ).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As one of the world’s top funders of fossil fuels, taking over HSBC’s Canadian operations, at a time when its parent company was already taking concrete action to lower its financed emissions, is a significant step backwards on climate.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

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. 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

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C mark, because of decades of inaction on the part of policymakers and decades of deception and obstruction on the part of fossil fuel companies. To secure the livable future that children around the world deserve, we must double down, ratchet up pressure on governments, and break the power of the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. To deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement—limiting warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and as close to 1.5 What are the major goals of the summit?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There was no progress on getting national governments to state stronger ambitions in their NDCs, in the additional specification of global targets, or even in non-binding language regarding intentions to cut fossil fuels. C ambition from Paris. There was even, briefly, alarm that the COP might fail to re-affirm the 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. While these targets were established voluntarily, they became mandatory once the Paris Agreement was promulgated as national law in Brazil through an executive decree.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The geopolitics of energy are also quite different today than they were in the 1970s. But there is one clear parallel that is worth emphasizing: the current crisis, like the crisis of the 1970s, is a crisis of the fossil fuel energy system. Fossil fuel supporters have been quick to say “I told you so.”

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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. C above preindustrial levels, the limit that island nations and allies fought for so hard in the Paris Agreement. (It It is important to note that the 1.5°

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 The IEA is the world’s foremost authority on energy, relied upon by governments and the private sector around the world. That includes: 1 Stop approving fossil fuel projects, and plan for their phase out.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.” Several countries in the OAS have committed to increased use of clean energy in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This transition has already led to climate litigation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Trump’s second victory is very likely to increase fossil fuel production, and he has also pledged to “rescind all unspent funds under the Inflation Reduction Act ’’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The term ‘ Loss and Damage ’ refers to the extreme edge of those impacts, those human-caused and fossil fuel-driven disasters that are occurring on a scale and with an intensity and frequency that far outpaces ordinary adaptation measures. Within the U.S., The blame lies squarely with richer nations like the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re in a race for lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals needed to move away from fossil fuels. Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To China Clean Energy Research Center, or CERC.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

C) of the Paris Agreement has significant implications for how the global financial system works and will be a centrepiece of the coming years. The first priority following the 2015 Paris Agreement was to clean up public financing, so Article 2.1(C) C) of the Paris Agreement. Article 2.1(C)

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossil fuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories. This shift is a major opportunity for Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.

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