Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan 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. Climate Strategies.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The Paris Agreement's commitment to limit global warming to 1.5C alive requires a 45 per cent reduction in global emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by mid-century," he said. According to present national commitments, global emissions are set to increase by almost 14 per cent in the 2020s.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

But even though natural gas is a major growing source of emissions in the country (Canada is the world’s fourth largest producer of the fossil fuel), the article didn’t once mention climate change, nor the potentially severe health impacts from breathing in gas fumes.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

of global warming could deliver one per cent growth in employment by 2050, compared to a baseline scenario. Pressure has been growing on the EU to ensure private sector bailout packages come with 'green strings' attached to help trigger a new wave of low carbon investment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. He has used GWP* to claim that the US meat and dairy sector can become “climate-neutral” by the late 2040s by reducing emissions only two percent a year.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. People are taking notice. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

More than 75 of the UK's leading businesses are lobbying the Prime Minister to substantially enhance the UK's existing 2030 climate target to align it with a net zero pathway before the end of the year, warning the current carbon budget falls short of the emissions reductions required to meet global climate goals.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

While renewables are part of this picture, this crisis presents an opportunity to invest and support the development of new fuels like green hydrogen that complement renewables and have massive potential for making rapid cuts to carbon emissions. The current energy mix and ways of thinking are not working. The green hydrogen future.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

But it notes the health of fossil gas markets from 2035 onwards is uncertain, with future projections depending to a large extent on how much the nascent hydrogen industry comes to depend on fossil-based production techniques. Annual investments in energy supply and production are expected to double by 2035 to reach $1.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Australian sheep meat is a “climate-neutral” product. The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is “the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming.” I moved from the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Around the world, SUVs alone emit more carbon pollution than Canada or Germany , and are causing a bigger increase in climate pollution than heavy industry. North American suburban households consistently have higher carbon footprints than urban ones: one study in Toronto found suburban footprints were twice as high.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Its “conservative estimate” is that extreme weather supercharged by global warming already costs the US $150 billion in damages a year. Extreme weather supercharged by global warming already costs the US $150 billion in damages a year How is the Biden administration coping with this new reality?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

President Xi, one of around 75 world leaders scheduled to speak at the virtual UN summit, reiterated his landmark pledge from September to peak China's carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. I welcome President Xi's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This Partnership will help Vietnam to build a 21st century power sector, energising its economic growth and bringing environmental and health benefits to its citizens.". Europe was the first continent to set out a path towards climate neutrality. A global clean tech race has started. Other countries had pledges, we had a plan.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The reality remains that companies need to halve emissions by 2030 if we are to have any chance of limiting global warming.". Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Let us be the leaders who secure the very health of the planet for our children, grandchildren and generations to come.". "No one country can turn the tide - it would be akin to bailing out a liner with a single bucket," Johnson will say. "We We cannot let climate action become another victim of coronavirus.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Bringing an end to the burning of coal for energy is one of the single biggest priorities if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century, and has been one of the UK's top priorities in its role as host of COP26.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Yet, given the environmental impact of plastic straws , they don’t make sense for the health of our planet either. Transitioning from Plastic to Biodegradable Paper Reduces Your Carbon Footprint. Rather, throughout their entire lifecycle – from their manufacture to their disposal – plastics are contributing to global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So the federal government, provincial, territorial, municipal, and the local orders of government need a seat at the table; so too do Indigenous leadership – First Nations, Métis, and Inuit – around the same table, finding common ground on urgent issues like health care, on the climate emergency, and working together in the public interest.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. And it will not only be regional.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

An analysis from Carbon Brief's Simon Evans highlighted that the UK currently boasts just over 10GW of offshore wind capacity, meaning China had added 1.5 percent by 2025 compared with 2020 levels in a move designed to "lay a solid foundation for achieving carbon neutrality". ECB kicks off climate stress tests.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To just remove them from our energy system within a decade or two is completely fanciful,” says Kingsmill Bond, an energy strategist at think-tank Carbon Tracker, which is calling on governments and financial institutions to align themselves with a low-carbon economy (6). The problem is absolutely immense.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. This is a crisis, and a lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045, 2050, something like that. Now, I've got a plan to get us carbon neutral by 2050. But it is a transitional fuel.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

Back in the 1990s we were calling it global warming, but we knew what it was. That is the only way we will make progress on climate, on gun safety, on health care, on all of the issues that matter to us. It's a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral. We should see this for the problem it is.

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