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. This dramatic underreporting undermines the chance of achieving the global goals of the Paris Agreement. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Despite all the work, all the dedication, of thousands of people around the world, there’s a good chance we’ll blow past the Paris Agreement’s targets. Human beings can be short-sighted, self-centered, uncooperative, and sometimes just plain irrational. Suppose we do miss those targets? Is there any point to continuing the fight?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. The Brazilian court became the world’s first to give this status to the Paris Agreement, setting an important precedent for Brazil and the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The GST is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement , designed to periodically gauge collective progress and identify gaps in ambition. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The GST is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement , designed to periodically gauge collective progress and identify gaps in ambition. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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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. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To build its reasoning, the Conseil d’Etat referred to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement and listed a number of legal texts that were adopted both at EU and national level to implement their international climate commitments. Fourth, the case is a landmark in and of itself by invoking the Paris Agreement in front of the courts.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Otherwise national pledges to address climate change in the spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement will not build sufficient global trust. The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a shift towards countries making emission reduction pledges known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and a new Transparency Framework (Article 13).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Losses and damages caused by climate change to intangible cultural heritage such as Indigenous and local knowledge, and traditional agricultural practices have been vastly underestimated in discussions of Paris Agreement implementation. This needs to change.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change. For example, the company supported politicians who opposed President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement and defended big oil companies’ roles in spreading disinformation.

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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. Focusing on data accuracy and MRV.

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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. This shows that national legislation is fundamental.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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 It’s also worth noting that climate goals have historically been established when political and fossil fuel industry power was central to how negotiations operate.

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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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

What is needed to make the Paris Agreement a success? But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs. As states are currently hammering out the details of transparency in the Paris Agreement, they should keep these different options and trade-offs in mind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Istanbul meeting saw a prolonged, and ultimately unresolved debate about whether the IPCC’s main reports could, or should, be produced in time to help inform the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) second global stocktake (GST2), to be completed in 2028, in which nations will again assess their collective progress (..)

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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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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. The first priority following the 2015 Paris Agreement was to clean up public financing, so Article 2.1(C) C) of the Paris Agreement. Article 2.1(C)

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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Law Columbia

MAY 15, 2024

This violation was attributed to the Swiss government’s failure to implement the robust regulatory framework necessary for fulfilling its commitment to reduce emissions as set out in the Paris Agreement. Litigation, while a last resort, can strengthen both administrative and political accountability for fulfilling climate commitments.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas. However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum. Image credit: Getty Images.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. It shows a world dangerously off track and careening toward a temperature increase of around 2.5?C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

Geopolitical conflicts and internal political turmoil within OPEC member nations and other oil producing countries can all end up affecting the global supply and price of crude oil. A recent UCS analysis examined pathways for meeting carbon reduction requirements in line with the Paris Agreement through 2050.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 20, 2021

After Paris, it dropped and then plateaued due to the signing of the Paris Agreement. Climate change and environmental news have for long been last in the pecking order behind the economy, health and politics, and placed in the section named environment. A change in newsrooms.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But the government headed by the leader of the Moderates, Ulf Kristesson, is adamant they will stick to the country’s climate goals and the pledges set out in the Paris Agreement. We are going to meet our end of the Paris Agreement, but without destroying companies’ and Swedish households’ finances.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

We need political leaders to make the right choices and reduce heat trapping emissions now. We need a fast, fair phaseout of fossil fuels , and steep reductions in methane emissions—including from agriculture and oil and gas operations — to keep the Paris Agreement and Global Methane Pledge on track.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change? In this way, local politics are actively engaged on the international problem of climate change. By Professor Tracy Bach. Follow the journey. till its finish!

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. This blog consists of three parts. The outliers are PVV and FvD (and recent split-off JA21).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

RBC’s Client Engagement Approach proposes to assess oil and gas clients on their ability to “conduct public policy engagement activities in accordance with the goals of the Paris Agreement” and disclose “ trade association memberships and their alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement”.

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