Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. The corporate insurgents were seeking a sharp shift in corporate strategy, embracing clean energy rather than defining itself in terms of fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first “global stocktake” authorized by the Paris agreement, a comprehensive assessment of progress toward the agreement’s goals, is to be conducted next year. The limited degree of interest and engagement from senior political leaders, without which no meaningful progress will be made.

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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. In PSB et al.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

For example, Cuba committed to generating 24% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 as part of the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Cuba’s relationships with other countries will be key to realizing the energy transition.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C C of warming?

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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

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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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To and China signed 9 key climate agreements to accelerate clean energy in those two countries—agreements that ultimately paved the way for the Paris agreement.

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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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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). The act aims to create green jobs, reduce fossil fuel consumption and switch to clean energy. Reporting them under the Paris Agreement is voluntary.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. During the latest Two Sessions – the annual meeting of China’s top legislature – a proposal on training “carbon talent” was submitted by a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. The parallels are obvious: dramatic and sustained energy price shocks, a global food crisis, rising inflation, and the possibility of economic stagnation.

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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 Oil and gas boosters both from the political and corporate world will offer solutions that involve a significant role for oil and gas using unproven techno-fixes. 2) Drive a “massive clean energy expansion” over next decade.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Recently, the CBC , working with pollster Janet Brown, released the results of its annual spring report card on Alberta’s political and economic well-being. At the same time, blanket upzoning would reduce price speculation and political interference by City Council. A stitch in time saves $32 trillion.

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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. degrees Celsius (2.7 Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. The Philippines Commission on Human Rights published report on Carbon Majors’ responsibility for climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many announcements and side initiatives The opening days of COP28 were filled with political announcements from the high-level segment and a myriad of side initiatives, including several from the United States. The first iteration of the Global Stocktake text on the “energy package” was so weak that it was universally panned.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. . 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. .

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The City of Atlanta committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 after its leaders concluded the state of Georgia was not meeting their policy goals. In reflecting on the past administration’s impact on energy policy, a state-by-state analysis reveals a more positive picture than many feared in 2016.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Nations remain far apart in reaching agreement on a new climate finance commitment from richer countries and will need to double down on efforts over the next few days to secure an ambitious outcome. trillion annually. The United States is the largest historical emitter of heat-trapping emissions and a major player at these negotiations.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. withdrawal from Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Facts do not bow to politics. The next hurricane doesn’t care if you are conservative or liberal or what political party you belong to. Trump has promised to again exit the Paris Agreement —the international agreement to try to limit the worst impacts of climate change, thus undermining global climate progress.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

In addition, the three companies contended that the City does not state viable state law claims and that the claims are not justiciable because they do not present a justiciable case or controversy; because they present political questions; and because the City lacks standing. In re PennEast Pipeline Co. , CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

The group is behind expensive media campaigns to defeat legislation that would protect communities from harmful emissions resulting from oil and gas extraction, and incorrectly blames high gas prices in California on state politics. BP keeps climate-conscious shareholders out BP faced no climate-related shareholder proposals this year.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. All five have signed the Paris Agreement but, according to petitioners, none have made or kept commitments that align with keeping temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2024

Biden has also supported some big legislative initiatives, with massive spending for clean transportation in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and for clean energy in the Inflation Reduction Act. Nor would Biden’s reentry into the Paris Agreement. Another step would be to withdraw from the U.N.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Provisions of the bill would also create good-paying jobs in the US clean energy manufacturing sector, invest billions of dollars toward environmental justice, reduce air and water pollution in communities across the country, and make farmlands and our food supply more resilient.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Wolf: Forms Redistricting Advisory Council To Help Evaluate Fairness In Upcoming Congressional Redistricting Map -- WHYY: Wolf Creates New Redistricting Oversight Panel Ahead Of Fraught Map-Drawing Process -- WESA: What Does 2020 Census Mean For Allegheny County Congressional Representation?

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Canadian banks remain among the biggest backers of fossil fuels in the world and are lagging behind in clean energy financing. The time for asking politely is over. Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, Canada’s 5 big banks have invested over $1.1

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