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

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition? The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

Vanuatu and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) asserted that these legal consequences are governed by the general law of State responsibility. Micronesia , Ghana , and Saint Lucia also emphasized that cessation and non-repetition would involve reducing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting fossil fuel subsidies, and phasing out fossil fuels.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

The Paris agreement calls for capping warming as near as possible to 1.5° term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” Most of that discussion was at a very general level. It’s worth taking a closer look at some key findings and their policy implications. for avoiding dangerous warming. C in the near?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Success at COP28 is likely to be measured by the inclusion of strong fossil fuel phaseout language, free from loopholes, in the final agreement. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. trillion or 6.8%

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. In 2022, the United Nations released a special report focusing on the role of nonstate actors, including law firms, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

Switzerland (“ KlimaSeniorinnen ”), the Court held that by failing to put in place a domestic regulatory framework for climate change mitigation, the Swiss government violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to respect for private and family life. In Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2023

But the Paris Agreement actually only specifies that global aggregate residual emissions be in balance with sinks. Nonetheless, the UK government recently announced its intention to integrate carbon removals into its established emissions trading scheme. It also demands, second, measurability of outcomes.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Despite green rhetoric from the government, the situation is not likely to improve soon. Indonesia’s government looks at coal as the cheapest energy source, but ignores the fact that continuing to build these coal plants – and in particular mine-mouth plants – clashes with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. Five years down the line, countries were scheduled to return to the forum and finalise a rulebook on how to implement the Paris Agreement. By Lou Del Bello. On the agenda at COP26.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But we wanted to take a moment to lay out our expectations, both for what COP28 must deliver as well as the Government of Canada. (If At COP27, the Government of Canada failed to champion calls for a fossil fuel phaseout. Canadians expect more from their government this year.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

You can speak up for the strongest possible climate investments in these pieces of federal legislation, too.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. In the run-up to COP26, the UK has been working behind the scenes with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. James McKenzie.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Subsequent research progressively shed light on the impacts of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on ocean chemistry and ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, marine biodiversity loss, and acidification. The opinion clearly states that complying with the Paris Agreement is not sufficient for compliance with UNCLOS (para.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. The question is divided into two parts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Rapid, deep cuts to fossil fuel use are necessary to address the climate crisis The power sector is second only to the transportation sector in terms of total US greenhouse gas emissions, making up about a quarter of overall emissions. Coal is the most destructive fossil fuel in terms of its climate impact. degrees Celsius.

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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. We Need to Act Now!

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The government of Indonesia has taken several bold initiatives to protect and restore critical coastal ecosystems, particularly coral reefs and mangroves,” said Andre Aquino, senior natural resources management specialist at the World Bank’s environment and natural resources global practice, during an online press event.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If I find that energy storage is not very profitable, then it’s important for government organizations to know that,” she explains. He is also helping to develop a benchmarking process to assess companies’ progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. Flora Biggins.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In the complaint, the Plaintiffs argued that they were likely to suffer damage from air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases by the coal-fired power plants and those would violate personal rights or the right to a peaceful life of the Plaintiffs. (Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Capaccio

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. What Does COP28 Mean for the Private Sector? What’s Next?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent by 2030. has also developed a long-term strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. o C above pre-industrial levels. In the near term, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries. It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Carbon Emissions Emissions goals were set in response to urgent developments in climate science indicating that for the world to meet the 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

JUNE 24, 2024

The General Assembly requested that the ICJ render an opinion on: (i) the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and (ii) the legal consequences for States that have caused significant harm to the climate system.

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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 The harm-causing actions to which liability attaches are past emissions, ascribed either to nations or enterprises in proportion to their contribution to the present excess atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

118 & 542), and the often inadequate action taken to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions on the other. This indicates that not only democracy but also litigation to compel governments to reduce GHG emissions is fraught with obstacles. 657), the “tailored approach” (para. 453) allows for.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 7, 2021

These developments confirm that the goal of fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest will increasingly shape EU and German law-making for the foreseeable future. Further key elements of the provisional agreement include. (i) Further legislative action may be just around the corner.

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