In Glasgow, Financiers Vow to Shift Investments from Fossil Fuels to Renewables
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.
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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis
Real Climate
APRIL 6, 2023
The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.
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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
But it also indicates that by swiftly and drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the worst effects of climate change can be prevented, avoiding worst-case outcomes for water availability. “I And it shows that certain trends such as rising seas and shrinking ice sheets will continue even if carbon pollution were halted immediately.
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The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact?
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact? Globally, temperature increases, driven by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reach 0.8C The Court acknowledged Shell’s significant duty of care in mitigating climate change, given its century-long dominance in the fossil fuel market.
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What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Natural influences, such as volcanic activity or sunlight intensity, account for a mere sliver of atmospheric warming. The report, while grim, does offer hope.
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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.
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Emergency? Part 4
Legal Planet
JULY 25, 2023
There should be a concerted effort to reach an international agreement for methane reduction, akin to the Kigali Amendment, which phases out another important greenhouse gas – hydrofluorocarbons — with emission reduction dates, enforcement, and funding and technical assistance to help countries meet the targets.
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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?
A Greener Life
APRIL 11, 2022
The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.
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Opinion: Food systems transformation critical to reducing emissions
A Greener Life
MARCH 25, 2022
Changing the way we produce and consume food could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. billion tonnes a year. Photo credit: FAO / Victor Sokolowicz. By Patty Fong. billion tonnes a year.
Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter
Breezometer
JUNE 7, 2022
Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. C according to projections.
IPCC: The planet is on red alert
A Greener Life
AUGUST 13, 2021
The comprehensive report leaves no one in doubt that every corner of the Earth is now impacted by climate change , the change caused by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. Unprecedented. It finds that many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years.
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Business and industry must rise to the challenge of climate change
Physics World
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases over the coming decade can prevent such climate breakdown, the IPCC says, with every fraction of a degree of further heating likely to compound the accelerating effects. “A
Food is finally on the table of global environmental summits, but to what end?
Acoel
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.
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ESA & COP26:: Day 2: Progress
ESA
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. Will countries agree to make serious new cuts in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning?
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Carbon isn’t bad
HumanNature
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Before I make such a controversial claim, let’s get some facts straight… There is far too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are already causing severe climate change, and the worst is yet to come.
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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. The human rights complaint.
8 ways to save our climate, and our lives
Edouard Stenger
JUNE 13, 2023
Reduce methane emissions Methane essentially comes from the decay of vegetation, animals’ digestion and the exploitation of fossil fuels, methane is a greenhouse gas with a massive footprint, 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years.
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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.
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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 This financial instrument is essential to controlling deforestation in Amazonia.
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COP26 Retrospective: Historical Turning Point Toward a Sustainable Future?
Acoel
JANUARY 18, 2022
Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.
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Climate Litigation in Latin America and the Caribbean: launching a regional Platform for Climate Litigation
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Unfortunately, however, the region is also highly vulnerable to the damaging effects of the climate crisis, despite not being significant emitters of greenhouse gasses. Corruption is a widespread and deeply rooted phenomenon, especially in multimillion-dollar industries such as fossil fuels and extractivism.
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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?
Global Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.
A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place
Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year, representing 8% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Over a third of global food production , 1.3 This accounts for 4.4
It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020
Manning Law
JUNE 8, 2020
And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future.
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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.
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Conservation: History and Future
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China.
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The Year in Water, 2021
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Fossil fuel subsidies could be ratcheted down. Vincent, Borneo, and Alaska, decades of displacement, deforestation, and warming have defined a harrowing Anthropogenic Epoch. climate change panel’s most recent report, which noted that a buildup of greenhouse gases is intensifying the water cycle. Christian Thorsberg.
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Canada’s big banks face MPs over their financing of the climate crisis
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JUNE 13, 2024
Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. It is wasteful by design. Source: Hans Olav Lien/Wikimedia Commons.
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The Stream, April 12, 2023: Southern Indian River Communities Contest Decades of Petrochemical Plants
Circle of Blue
APRIL 12, 2023
We can’t acknowledge fossil energy as a sustainable source even if it is for the benefit of Africans because we are in an ongoing climate emergency.” — Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, a member of Don’t Gas Africa, a civil society campaign against fossil fuel energy production.
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Despite progress, COP27 is yet another failure
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
15 years later, one could say that if success may have been achieved, it’s hard to be triumphant, given how fast our carbon emissions are still rising : However, official pledges to slash greenhouse gases emissions are increasing, and thus, there is hope the world could collectively achieve limiting the temperature rise.
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Emergency? Part 5
Legal Planet
AUGUST 1, 2023
We have seen governments and companies make time-bound commitments to end deforestation, restore degraded forest landscapes, and achieve sustainable forest management. But rapid deforestation and forest degradation have continued, driven primarily by growing global demand for food, fuel, and fiber.
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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?
Law Columbia
MARCH 19, 2025
corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence.
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Climate Change in the Courts
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. In 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court. attorneys. brought suit. over a dozen.
Climate Action for Earth Day
Legal Planet
APRIL 22, 2024
Cara Horowitz: US greenhouse gas emissions shrank in 2023, while our economy grew. Ted Parson: I’m just re-reading “Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is not Enough” by our wonderful former Emmett Fellow Holly Buck. That’s the first time this has happened since before the pandemic.
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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , Nos. 20-1093, 20-1094 (D.C.
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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Based Fossil Fuel Companies Filed Motions to Dismiss New York City’s Climate Change Lawsuit.
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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.
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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
JULY 2, 2021
Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.
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Back in the game: Brazil’s reengagement in climate governance
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
International law, which is based on sound scientific evidence , clearly establishes the pressing need for effective mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008. C above pre-industrial levels (Paris Agreement, art.
ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021
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NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Countries pledge to combat deforestation, cut methane emissions, transition away from coal and more. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023.
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Special Policy News #7: The Transition
ESA
APRIL 19, 2021
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed orders on Friday creating a climate task force and rescinding Trump-era secretarial orders that had made fossil fuel production on federal land a priority. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manchin reportedly opposed Klein’s nomination because she was too hostile to fossil fuels.
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Policy News: October 8, 2021
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OCTOBER 8, 2021
California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill. Assessing cumulative impacts means agencies would analyze the ramifications for climate change by weighing how many greenhouse gases projects and decisions unleash at the end of the value chain. California governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill – Associated Press.
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