Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Contrary to climate science and the Paris Agreement, all eight assessed companies plan to increase fossil fuel production. It finds they are all on track to increase their oil and gas production in Canada, rather than planning a fair transition away from fossil fuels that are fuelling the climate crisis.

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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. 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. degrees Celsius​​.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

From the outset, the notion that financial institutions are “boycotting” the fossil fuel industry – despite the fact that many targeted banks are leading financiers of fossil fuels – has animated Republican politicians advocating for anti-ESG legislation.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal. Previous Alberta governments provided a range of incentives.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

My colleague Courtney Carmichael and I will represent Ocean Conservancy during these negotiating proceedings informing and advising negotiators and interested parties on policy for adoption in this agreement. We must keep in mind that plastics are energy and emissions intensive and drive fossil-fuel demand and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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ESA

JANUARY 5, 2024

o C over pre-industrial global temperatures with a transition away from fossil fuels. For instance, the issue to include wording related to phasing out fossils fuels was hotly debated and various groups aligned in ways not initially understood.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of Ontario: . Reduce Ontario’s GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most ambitious aspects of the Paris Agreement. Did not answer the question.

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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. RBC doesn’t, and that’s why I’m calling on Minister Freeland to kill the deal.”

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It must be the meeting when we start really showing credible pathways to phase out fossil fuels.” Uphold peer-review quality: Preserve and champion the core values of scientific publishing, including registration, validation, certification, and perpetual conservation of scientific findings. COP28 must be the mitigation COP.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. From our work on shipping emissions, plastic pollution, ocean climate justice and ghost gear, the need for greater action is clear to us at Ocean Conservancy. © Felipe Victoria(Ocean Conservancy). © Felipe Victoria(Ocean Conservancy). Enter Your Email.loading.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. free market.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

These decisions were pronounced against the backdrop of balancing development needs with conservation efforts. The Government also argued that the Order created obstacles to meeting India’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. UOI (1985 ) and right to clean air and water in Vellore Citizens v. UOI (1996).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

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. This change follows statements issued at the 26th meeting of the Conference of Parties in Glasgow (COP26), indicating that for the world to meet the 1.5°C

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. A bit more on those reasons later.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Conservation : The preservation or restoration of a natural environment for the social, ecological, or even economical benefit. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Food and farming was on the menu at COP28 The surprising final agreement that emerged from all-night overtime negotiations is extraordinary for its long-overdue focus on transitioning away from fossil fuels. But otherwise, the final COP28 agreement didn’t include any binding commitments on food or farming.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A San Francisco-based conservation group, along with NRDC and Defenders of Wildlife, filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging a biological opinion prepared under the Endangered Species Act for the California WaterFix project. filed June 15, 2017).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris agreement. We’re trying to think of this as a development priority as opposed to a nature conservation priority.”. We’ve taken the conservation benefit and put that secondary,” Muruven explained.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For IPCC 6, the results confirm, in greater detail than ever before, the impact that fossil fuels have on our climate. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Celsius, the aspirational target of the landmark Paris Agreement. Let’s take a moment to talk about that report. Never miss an update.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement. Unless fossil fuel use declines steeply and swiftly, it will be necessary to pursue options such as removing carbon from the air or growing crops as a fuel stock.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2025

No response was received from the Conservative Party. trillion CAD in fossil fuel companies in 2022, with resulting emissions equivalent to the fifth largest greenhouse gas polluter in the world. Three parties answered yes to both questions (the Bloc Qubcois, the Green Party, and the New Democratic Party).

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, fell short in many wayschief among them, its failure to mobilize adequate climate finance and renew the call to transition away from fossil fuels. The continued expansion of fossil fuels and the insufficient financial commitments for climate adaptation and mitigation are particularly harmful to the ocean.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Cruz the climate denier Cruz vehemently rejects the scientific consensus on climate science while receiving millions in donations from the fossil fuel industry, and he was one of 22 Senators who signed a letter urging Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. And he wants Texas to be a clean energy leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climate change said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. With COP 27 now concluded, fossil fuel investment remains the elephant in the room.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The survey revealed that in the absence of federal guidance, these actors generally seized the opportunity to follow economic and social forces to move away from fossil fuels. All these actions went against the Trump Administration narrative and also against expectations for moderate or conservative jurisdictions.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 2:16 -cv-00285 (D.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. Conservation Law Foundation v. FEATURED CASE. 1884CV01431 (Mass.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

degree Fahrenheit limits set by the Paris Agreement to avoid catastrophic climate impacts—more than double the 22 percent of the US as a whole that would exceed that temperature. The National Parks Conservation Association praised the act for providing “crucial funding” to start repairing the parks.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on February 5, 2020 in the appeals in California local governments’ climate change cases against fossil fuel companies.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

The Conservative majority of judges in the US Supreme Court on Thursday last week intervened to weaken President Biden ’s plans to reduce emissions. And once again the Supreme Court favoured conservative social views. Steam rises from a US coal powerplant. Photo credit: Reuters / Chris Keane. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” degrees Fahrenheit) limits of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2024

Everything so far in the campaign indicates no shift in Trump’s view of energy policy, which emphasizes national dominance through fossil fuels. We don’t know how that will play out in the courts, though today’s 6-3 conservative majority certainly gives him a better chance than he had in the more balanced 2016 Supreme Court.

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