Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

And after his service in the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal revealed new evidence that Tillerson had dismissed the Paris Agreements goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius) as something magical.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The phrase EV mandate also jibes with a political antagonism to some electric vehicle tax credits. The EO proposes considering the elimination of unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell, like competitors ExxonMobil and Chevron, uses an intensity metric for measuring the global warming emissions it produces, which allows them to project reductions in their relative carbon emissions via increases in renewable power and technologies like carbon capture and storage.

Fossil Fuels

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. But young people are entering the ranks of those who vote in elections, and were seeing the beginnings of a real change in the political systems approach to this crisis also.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

It has been hailed as the biggest and most significant policy framework ever approved in the US political system. The global and corporate agenda on climate action was much stronger and fundamentally technological. First and foremost, the science to act urgently on climate was even more potent than previously.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

In terms of the IRAs strengths, I personally really like the expenditure on nascent technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), direct air capture, and CCS pipelines. These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies. Given that the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Argentina was the first to say it might not stick with the Paris Agreement. billion in funding pledges from non-US donors, higher than the USD 8.5 billion originally pledged in 2022.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised. It is presented as a state-media publication platform.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (various measures addressing wildlife prevention and response) EO 14304: Leading the World in Supersonic Flight (repealing prohibition on overland flights by SSTs) EO 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science (imposing various requirements such as reproducibility, best available science, (..)

Endangered Species Act

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 The study focused on the member states of the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement. degrees goal is threatened by political inaction.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Paris Agreement

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. degree Celsius targets set by the Paris Agreement, what other policies are available? If we overshoot the 1.5

Fossil Fuels

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. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

Natural Gas

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.

Fossil Fuels

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?

Sea Level

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.

Government

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.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

In the most significant development in international climate law since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the ICJ outlined numerous obligations that could significantly shape the contours of international environmental law and global climate governance. 74) – states must act urgently. 237-249).

Climate Change

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. .

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

Ocean

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).

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit.

2030

Law Columbia

JULY 25, 2025

The specific shape this enhanced due diligence standard takes depends on particular risks, the degree of vulnerability of affected persons, and evolving scientific and technological knowledge (para. degree goal of the Paris Agreement. Political will is equally important. AO 23/17 has also helped shape global standards.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. These are the world’s biggest economies, many of them home to the finance and technologies needed to tackle the climate crisis. Despite this, energy-related CO2 emissions rebounded 5.9% across G20 countries in 2021, to above pre-pandemic levels.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

Renewable Energy

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. The group also said that any assumptions made when preparing financial statements must be compatible with the Paris agreement. Green technology and growth: a vision we can believe in. Global goals. I think we’re pushing on an open door.

Climate Change

Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. West European Politics, doi: [link]. The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. Schoenefeld, J.

Renewable Energy

Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

C limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement, this needs to happen as soon as possible. It reminds us that the obstacles to climate action are neither physical nor technological. At this point, they remain political. To keep within the 1.5°C

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Specialists in law, economics, geography, philosophy, art, and other subjects provided complementary perspectives on topics such as energy governance, urban regeneration, green growth, adaptation and vulnerability, climate justice, and the political economy of climate change.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2025

the United States , Japan , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Australia ) had urged a “climate treaties only” view – that The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol, and Paris Agreement form a lex specialis, displacing broader international law. As Phoebe Okowa recalls , a handful of large emitters (e.g.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 8, 2025

C goal established in the Paris Agreement and the obligation to set progressively determined nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that reflect the highest possible ambition. Switzerland decision by the European Court of Human Rights, in establishing this obligation. Adaptation must be guided by the best available science (para.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

In adopting the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement the German legislature exercised its mandate and prerogative. These rights are not violated, in view of the legislature’s wide margin of discretion; the same goes for adopting the targets of the Paris Agreement. threshold must not be passed. However, adopting a 1.5C

2030

Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. Private and public sector leaders will discuss the importance of making scientific results openly available in order to boost innovation, increase public consensus, and bolster political will to act.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. As the market for emission-reducing technologies grows, there’s an increased incentive to invest in R&D.

2005

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will. the Paris Agreement’s nationally determined contributions or “opt outs” under CITES or the IWC). What matters most in implementing sound climate policies is domestic politics.

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