Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. We know current national plans are still pretty inadequate – way more ambition is needed. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

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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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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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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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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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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

C) of the Paris Agreement has significant implications for how the global financial system works and will be a centrepiece of the coming years. It calls for countries to make all “finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” C) of the Paris Agreement.

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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

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. Brazilian Supreme Court recognizes the Paris Agreement as a human rights treaty. By Maria Antonia Tigre. In PSB et al. In practice, the law in question is overridden by the treaty.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ministers from poor, vulnerable countries call on those from rich, industrialized countries to do more: reduce their high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist people in the Global south to better cope with the climate disasters that keep mounting. The Canadian government brought very little new to this UN conference.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). The court also enjoined the Czech government from continuing to interfere with the plaintiffs’ rights.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. McKay is a collaborative CEO and often repeats the oil company message that more government subsidies are needed for Big Oil.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

The International Law Commission’s Guiding Principles applicable to unilateral declarations of States capable of creating legal obligations provide further general guidance on when such a statement by a state or government official can be considered legally binding.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 18, 2023

Last month, 16 Members of Parliament supported a government motion, Motion 84 , and called on the government to “use all legislative and regulatory tools at its disposal to align Canada’s financial system with the Paris Agreement” on climate change, where countries agreed to deliver best efforts to limit global warming to 1.5-degrees.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2023

New federal regulations, the Clean Fuel Regulations, have come into force that require oil refiners to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These regulations play a crucial role in Canada’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fulfill commitments under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas laid the facts bare, stating: “Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Scientists, climate advocates, governments around the world as well as ordinary citizens will be concerned having seen what just 1.4

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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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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and consits of heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission. The three countries that will take over the presidency from 1 July 2020 drew up a unified action programme for the coming years.

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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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