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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Carbon concentrations still building despite Covid restrictions, UN report finds

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Covid-19 restrictions will result in a drop in CO2 emissions of between four and seven per cent through 2020, according to further analysis from the Global Carbon Project finds, with daily global CO2 emissions falling by an unprecedented 17 per cent during early April 2020 compared to the previous year.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

DeSmogBlog

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011.

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Global Briefing: Sweden to set world's first consumption-based climate goal

Business Green

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. Methane emissions soar to record high. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.