Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

By Georgina Gustin Some of the country’s biggest food companies are making a small dent in their greenhouse gas emissions, but most are failing to make substantial and critical reductions, even as consumers and government regulators are pushing harder for them to do so.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

That organization represents young people around the nation whose future–and present–is severely compromised by the country’s continued dependence on a carbon-based economy whose greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically changing our environment. The first legal challenge mounted by Our Children’s Trust was Juliana v.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 29, 2023

If governments step up support for renewable energy and other efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 2024 could see total carbon emissions begin to fall

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New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2025

Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows that emissions are five times higher than governments are reporting

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

European Union governments and lawmakers reached a deal Sunday about key elements of the 27-nation bloc’s green deal, reforming the EU’s trading system for greenhouse gas emissions. The post EU Reforms Elements of the Green Deal appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. The absence of the US from this Plenary raises concerns about official US government engagement in AR7.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

This long-term impact reflects the delayed response of ocean temperatures and ice sheet dynamics to past greenhouse gas emissions. While litigation alone wont solve the climate crisis, it is one piece of the broader landscape of climate governance.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

European Union governments and lawmakers reached a deal Sunday about key elements of the 27-nation bloc’s green deal, reforming the EU’s trading system for greenhouse gas emissions. The post EU Reforms Elements of the Green Deal appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yesterday, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer issued a report detailing how “to implement the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis.” Publish an annual report card on the Commonwealth’s progress to achieve mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. The absence of the US from this Plenary raises concerns about official US government engagement in AR7.

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New Scientist

MARCH 13, 2024

The largest ever dataset of its kind suggests methane is leaking from US oil and gas fields at a much higher rate than previously thought, implying the environmental damage caused by the greenhouse gas is greater too

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By concentrating this much power in the hands of one office, the province’s energy planning will happen in backrooms, likely to the benefit of government insiders. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling. Now, the Minister can simply “consult” with whoever they feel is appropriate.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. By Phil McKenna While emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, have fallen sharply in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As more local governments in California and around the country develop robust climate action plans–and as federal action to reduce emissions remains unpredictable as ever–it is increasingly clear that local strategies will be a key driver of decarbonization and resilience. . The post How Can Local Governments Pay for Climate Action?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Earlier this month, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service hosted a public hearing on their recent proposed rules governing implementation of the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit. My testimony is copied below.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November. It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris agreement. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The Government of Québec is providing financial assistance of up to $3 million through its Technoclimat program, a public investment platform dedicated to innovation in energy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

They can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through reduced energy consumption and greater carbon sequestration. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and some other leading governments have begun to plan this infrastructure, but implementation and funding remain in question. tree canopy), built (e.g., cool surfaces), social (e.g.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Scientists say their findings could help close a legal loophole that enables the federal government to avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions impacts on threatened and endangered species.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Five of the top six risks over the next decade fit that category: failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to a warming climate; extreme weather; biodiversity and ecosystem collapse; and, in general terms, “natural resource crises.” In the longer term, the forecasters expect the environment to emerge as the pivot point.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. trillion or 6.8%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

And so just by hearing it , members of the Supreme Court seemed to tip their hand, signaling a majority actively on the hunt for a chance to slash away at the government’s ability to advance vital environmental and public health safeguards. Unfortunately, those ominous signs were right on the mark. But that’s about where the good news ends.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

There are undoubtedly those in Alberta who are thrilled with the governments recent announcement on buffer zones and viewscapes for renewable energy development. Many are abandoning their previous net-zero commitments and going all in on greenhouse gas-producing fossil fuels. But can they?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. In December 2021, Colorado approved a greenhouse gas emission reduction standard to require this analysis, and other states are thinking to do the same. Bleviss, 2020 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

They are also innovators who just finished building the first geothermal greenhouse in the region. During COVID it was the community organizations that stepped up to do the work when governments seemed stunned. Kennedy Elementary School in front of Eastie Farm’s geothermal greenhouse.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. You have probably heard the federal government announce that billions of dollars are being invested in public transit. million fewer people.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. government scientists just declared as the hottest on record. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. The rapid melting event occurred in a month that the U.S.

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