Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Through political shifts and economic tides, the organization has stayed the course. Protecting our blue planet isn’t just a matter of politics; it is our duty—to ourselves, to future generations and to the planet we call home. No matter who is in power, we will continue this work with unrelenting determination. C within reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. We need to phase out fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. ExxonMobil Names Names.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” We in the U.S. On a per capita basis, we in the U.S.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Spearheaded by the Republic of Vanuatu, they want the court to clarify how existing International Law can strengthen governmental action on climate change, protect public health and the environment, and save the save the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

No More Fossils is part of that series, probing the ‘fossil’ aspect of the term fossil fuels. What is a fossil? This sucro-politics was overtaken by carbo-politics, where the work was done by coal, and then more recently by the petro-politics of oil. Fossils, by nature, persist through time.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s much on the agenda at this year’s summit, including negotiations on what measures countries are willing to take to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—a commitment they made at COP21 back in 2015. To secure a livable future for people and the planet for generations to come. The legacy of Sharm el-Sheikh: up to u s.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Then there is the ongoing controversy in the UK of new fossil fuel projects. As the host nation which should lead by example, the UK has as yet been unwilling to promise that three new controversial fossil fuel projects will not go ahead. degrees C target. degrees C target. Climate maths. If only a 1.5 degrees C.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They include, but are not limited to, altering rainfall and monsoon patterns, damaging the ozone layer, increasing global conflicts, and – most unacceptable of all – giving political cover for fossil fuel industries to continue polluting rather than cut greenhouse gas emissions. If we overshoot the 1.5

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the softening of the wording in the latter stages of negotiations, analysts and commentators noted that it was the first time a COP agreement had directly mentioned fossil fuels – even though they are the main contributor to climate change – and cited this as definite progress. Phase-down and not out.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. The IPCC could have declared that limiting average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 In fact, it sort of did. “In Declaring 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The key will be ramping up our clean energy solutions and simultaneously and aggressively moving away from polluting fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Last year, climate negotiators in Glasgow finalized the Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets, clearing the way for the expansion of emissions trading and carbon pricing worldwide. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Implications for China.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 9, 2021

By Bob Berwyn Amidst a summer of fires, floods and heat waves, scientists on Monday delivered yet another reminder that burning more fossil fuels in the decades ahead will rapidly intensify the impacts of global warming.

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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. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

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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

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

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 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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. Books have been written about how disinformation is deliberately used to cast doubt on climate change and prevent restrictions on the use of fossil energy sources (e.g.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM).

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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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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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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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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. “Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. This is a huge deal. So what do we need governments to do?

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