Remove 2007 Remove 2012 Remove Climate Change Remove Legal
article thumbnail

Smith School report recommends individual governments take more national and bi-lateral actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Green Car Congress

International climate negotiations can only go so far. Systems such as pledge-and-review set up in Copenhagen and Cancun are a useful way forward in the absence of an internationally legally-binding agreement, but individual Governments must provide urgent political leadership—that is not happening at present.

Emissions 210
article thumbnail

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% by Jack Rosebro.

Climate 236
article thumbnail

US House Members Introduce Bipartisan Disapproval Resolution to Block EPA Regulation of GHG; Mirrors Murkowski Resolution

Green Car Congress

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. I do not agree with the EPA or the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that gave the Agency that authority. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

EPA 191
article thumbnail

Climate Talks End In Copenhagen Accord; Countries Settle On Non- Binding 2 ÂșC Warming Limit

Green Car Congress

The formal acknowledgement of the Copenhagen Accord ended a particularly contentious and chaotic set of negotiations, ostensibly capping more than a decade of deliberations towards a framework to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions beyond the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. by Jack Rosebro.

Climate 236
article thumbnail

EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

Green Car Congress

The request was subsequently denied in December 2007. EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility. The CAFE program established by the EISA 2007 legislation specified a minimum 35 mpg in 2020. Earlier post.)

EPA 150
article thumbnail

House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Green Car Congress

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e., light duty vehicles—e.g.,

Climate 186
article thumbnail

Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Green Car Congress

In a statement describing their action, the two groups said: The LCFS contradicts the sound judgment of Congress when it passed the 2007 Energy Independence Security Act and singled out the importance of domestic ethanol for our nation’s environment, energy security, and economy. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

Carbon 225