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.

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

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. States such as Barbados , Chile , and Seychelles controverted these arguments.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2025

Question (a) is concerned with obligations of States “to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases”. This is reflected in the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, which describe climate change as a “common concern of humankind.” 410-420).

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

The plaintiffs claimed unlawful interference under the Code of Administrative Justice, given that the government had failed to take mitigation and adaptation measures as required under the Paris Agreement, resulting in harm to the plaintiffs human rights. percent reduction by 2030.

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Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

degrees Celsius soon, meaning the world will most likely fail to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of striving to cap the average temperature increase at 1.5 °C IS EXCEEDED By how much and for how long depends on the trajectory of net-negative CO₂ emissions, as well as emissions from other greenhouse gases.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But there are few signs the current round of climate talks will deliver on the only thing proven to slow global warming: rapid greenhouse gas cuts. By Bob Berwyn BAKU, Azerbaijan—If speeches and slogans could save the climate, COP29 would already be a success.

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The country has so far pledged to peak greenhouse gas emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. However, analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air suggests that, in order to align with Paris Agreement emissions trajectories, China should aim for a minimum 30% reduction in emissions by 2035.

2025

Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2025

The new direction is driven by a self-preservation instinct – “a policy revolt,” Matthews said – among the countries who formerly sat the bench as the world’s biggest carbon polluters debated the boundaries of greenhouse gas emission limits. The commitments that each party makes to the Paris agreement. It’s a big one.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

A small group of States, composed mainly of the world’s dominant fossil fuel producers and consumers, argued that the only applicable international law was the three climate treaties – the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world. The earthquake and tsunami had a great impact on Japanese energy policy, leading to the shutdown of nuclear power plants for safety reasons.

2025

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas, with each ton of methane emitted trapping approximately 80 times more heat in the earths atmosphere than a ton of carbon dioxide over a 20-year timescale. Addressing methane is critically important in global efforts to address the climate crisis.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Shell case, for instance, the Dutch courts upheld the ruling that Shell must act to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. Similarly, even cases that appear to be securing meaningful outcomes often face uncertainties. In the Milieudefensie et al.

2025

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Regarding the appropriate target, the IACtHR highlighted the international consensus in the Paris Agreement on a temperature increase of no more than 1.5 °C C above pre-industrial levels as valuable, but warned that even this seemingly ambitious goal does not eliminate the risk to millions of people in the region.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Under the Paris Agreement , nations agreed to set a new climate finance target by 2025 – a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). billion of the USD 115.9

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. is pulling out of the agreement altogether. When the annual U.N. delegation will take up much of the oxygen in the negotiating hall. negotiations are held, not inside.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

On the one hand, global greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, and the temperature for 2023 is the highest ever recorded. from the Paris Agreement again. Photo: Cara Horowitz Some have described the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku as “challenging,” “ineffective,” and “disappointing.”

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, only 42 jurisdictions have acknowledged the importance of blue carbon as a climate mitigation and adaptation strategy in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement. NDCs do not fully outline how BCEs will be scaled up through funding.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

These trends converged in Paris in 2015 when 195 countries signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to keep global temperatures from rising to more dangerous levels. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2 India followed.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Only 13 of the 195 signatory countries to the Paris Agreement submitted new national plans for tackling climate change by the recent deadline. withdrawing from that agreement again. Meanwhile President Trump has begun the process of the U.S.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

He’ll try to curb California’s power to cut greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. And he’ll pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Trump has made clear that he will roll back the Biden Administration’s climate rules and will seek to undue at least parts of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

That is Al Gores assessment of the potential impact of President Donald Trumps notice to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. By Robin Pomeroy and Natalie Marchant A lot of the decisions that affect global warming pollution emissions , are not down to what the federal government in the US does.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

The term “ norm sustainers ” was first used to describe states and cities that pledged to uphold the Paris Agreement on Climate Change when Trump pulled the U.S. out of this international agreement for the first time. to more easily rejoin the Paris Agreement during the Biden Administration.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2025

In this context, South Africa stressed that the preamble of the Paris Agreement acknowledges that human rights should be considered when taking action to address climate change, especially when it comes to the protection of the rights of the most vulnerable persons.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

Along with thousands of deaths, twelve months of war in Ukraine resulted in around 120 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – matching Belgium’s emissions over the same period. Military activities and armed conflicts are a growing climate liability. Judge Cleveland’s declaration seems to support this point (para.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The Supreme Court upheld EPA’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases. The Supreme Court overturned EPAs refusal to consider the dangers of greenhouse gases. A greenhouse gas, Acrylic Bicarbonate-32. Section 32 of the Paris Agreement. How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations?

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 14, 2025

One more reason were not ready for COP30 is that only 21 countries 11% of the parties have put forward new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, as required by the Paris Agreement. So, with Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement yet again, will California Governor Gavin Newsom go to COP30?

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change.

Sea Level

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Shaken by global instability and a populist backlash, European nations are retreating from plans to reduce greenhouse gases, promote sustainable farming practices, and boost biodiversity. Green advocates fear the EU will fail to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement. Read more on E360 →

Paris Agreement

New Scientist

JANUARY 21, 2025

The worlds largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases will withdraw from the global climate pact, disrupting efforts to tackle climate change

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions are continuing to rise while the gap between what is needed to keep Paris Agreement goals in reach and adapt to ongoing climate impacts is ever-widening. My research looks at issues of climate justice internationally, particularly as they relate to sea level rise and the Paris Agreement.

Paris Agreement

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. Similarly, the 1.5ºC goal in the Paris Agreement is not a betting game of where we will end up with maximum temperatures. warmer than pre-industrial times (here defined as 1850-1900).

Paris Agreement