Climate Change, Legal and Organization

India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council; interest in climate change impact and access to resources

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

It is among the major questions with which Canada will have to grapple as it prepares to chair the Council next year, notes the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, a Canadian public policy organization. The Arctic Council is the only international organization that gives indigenous peoples a formal place at the table.

Climate Change

Climate Change Brazil India Japan

WHO issues new, lower Global Air Quality Guidelines for classical pollutants

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

New WHO has issued new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) that reduce levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. can even enter the bloodstream, primarily resulting in cardiovascular and respiratory impacts, and also affecting other organs. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.

Pollution

Pollution Global 2005 Ozone

Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are legally required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12%. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76

Climate Change

Climate Change Corporation Renewable Climate

Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, it could be accomplished without impinging on environmentally sensitive areas in Brazil and while allowing for the expansion of other agricultural crops and human needs, the researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature Climate Change. million and 116 million hectares (144,788 to 447,879 square miles). Gigatons yr −1.

Brazil

Brazil Emissions Global Climate Change

IMO agrees mandatory system for collecting ships’ fuel consumption data

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2016

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption. IMO said that the move sends a clear signal about its commitment to climate change mitigation. —IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim.

Fuel

Fuel Climate Change 2013 Climate

Alberta CCEMC providing $46M for carbon capture and storage and cleaner energy projects in oil sands region

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing C$46 million (US$45 million) in funding to support six new carbon capture and storage and cleaner technology projects in the Canadian oil sands region. The organizations receiving funding from CCEMC are: Cenovus Energy Inc.: $10

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Cleaner Oil Carbon

Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Better air conditioners, in a technical sense, really only affect the last link in a long, climate-harming supply chain. In other words, an incremental efficiency improvement in heating will have a much bigger overall impact on energy demand and therefore climate change. Still, in the U.S.,

Future

Future Climate Phoenix Gas-Electric

Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

In December 2021 she announced the founding of a new organization, the. Timnit, did you decide to found a new organization because you think that the current model of AI research is broken? Spatial apartheid is legally over. I’ve been working on a paper with a legal scholar named. Since then, Gebru has been staffing up.

Building

Building Google South Africa Legal

Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

Climate

Climate America Global Energy

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. The whole world is one grid.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Coal Grid

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

makes independent assessments of organizations’ goals and performance against environmental, social and governance matters. The committee comprises senior representatives from Treasury, Sustainability, Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, Ford Credit and Legal. Vigeo Eiris, an arm of Moody’s Corp.,

Financing

Financing Ford Clean Cleaning

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Impacts of heavy metals and persistent organic compounds on human health are also quantified, primarily in terms of additional cancer incidence. Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. The damage cost resulting from emitting one kg of organic micro-pollutants (e.g.

Pollution

Pollution 2009 Europe Industrial

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

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Although mainstream America largely remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962.

Emissions

Emissions Pollution India Climate

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

Europe

Europe Libya Spain Legal

Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. LCFS Complaint.

California

California Oil-Sands Oil 2005

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

Carbon

Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions

Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The Met Office is currently negotiating with national meteorological and hydrological services that maintain the stations, and plan to release the remaining records as soon as they are legally able to do so. “ Locations of climate and weather station used in global. climate data analysis. Tags: Climate Change.

2009

2009 Climate 2000 Climate Change

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

APRIL 1, 2009

The draft requires states to establish goals for reducing global warming pollution from the transportation sector and requires large metropolitan planning organizations to submit transportation plans to meet those goals. light duty vehicles—e.g., heavy duty on-road vehicles, off-road vehicles, locomotives, marine and aviation engines.

Climate

Climate Standards Carbon California

Airlines Present Climate Change Proposals at UN Forum; 50% Absolute Cut In Emissions by 2050 Compared to 2005

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) presented its proposals for December’s climate change talks to the UN Secretary General’s Summit on Climate Change in New York. The forum took place in the run-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen this December.

Climate Change

Climate Change 2005 Climate Emissions

It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

And since I am indeed The Greenius and I have legally laid claim to this decade, preempting all others, I can confidently lay this on you and you can take comfort knowing I’m on the case and will not let you down. It seems like only yesterday that I was out picking up trash in Old Town Torrance, but it was in fact in January of 2009.

2010

2010 Grid Climate Change Solar

Waxman/Markey Bill Accelerates Infrastructure and Build-out for Plug-Ins, Calls for Harmonization of Motor Vehicle GHG Standards; 3% of Emissions Allowances for Cap-and-Trade Go to Auto Industry

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill is structured into four primary titles: Title I: Clean Energy; Title II: Energy Efficiency; Title III: Reducing Global Warming Pollution (the cap-and-trade bill); and Title IV: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (which also includes a section on adapting to climate change). Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Standards Auto Industry

ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Antitrust legislation sometimes hinders horizontal collaboration and legal risk has already prevented some trials.

Emissions

Emissions CO2 Alternative Fuels Climate Change

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic El Salvador Emissions Cape Verde

New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. In this way, RFA said, biofuels “recycle” organic carbon.

Emissions

Emissions Carbon Climate Change Climate

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest set of proposed standards to reduce emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the oil and natural gas industry.

EPA

EPA Oil Gas Industrial

ARB: California not tracking to meet required GHG reductions due to transportation; significant changes in communities and systems required

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

SB 375 recognizes the critical role of integrated transportation, land use, and housing decisions to meet state climate goals. The law requires each of California’s 18 regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to include a new element in their long-range regional transportation plans: a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS).

California

California Transportation Climate Emissions

BREAKING NEWS: Exxon/Mobil Ordered Out of Torrance, Guilty of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. It’s almost organic it’s so earthy.

Pollution

Pollution Gas Climate Change Carbon

A New Enterprise Linux Alliance

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Legal things are always slow, slower than you want them to be. Clark: Yeah. But they are coming along.

Future

Future Legal Standards Personal

IATA: Airline Industry Targeting Carbon-Neutral Growth By 2020

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

To achieve these goals, the air transport industry is focusing on a cross-industry four-pillar strategy on climate change consisting of improved technology; effective operations; efficient infrastructure; and positive economic measures. IATA would work with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to ensure compliance.

2020

2020 Carbon Industrial Industry

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

Grid

Grid Iowa Wind Miles

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Global climate change may also complicate the response of global ecosystems to mercury emission reductions, through its profound effects on many aspects of the movement and chemical transformations of mercury in the environment. —Global Mercury Assessment 2013.

Mercury

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

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

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The two organizations are arguing that, as structured, the LCFS violates both the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy. Earlier post.).

Carbon

Carbon California Standards Fuel

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. Lomborg says.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates. EPA then worked with the state of California and NHTSA, which sets fuel economy standards—in the mid-1970s, President Ford established the law that NHTSA is using to improve fuel economy, and the basis was not climate change, but energy security.

EPA

EPA Standards Emissions Obama

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. nationals and legal residents. Measurement.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council; interest in climate change impact and access to resources

WHO issues new, lower Global Air Quality Guidelines for classical pollutants

Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

IMO agrees mandatory system for collecting ships’ fuel consumption data

Alberta CCEMC providing $46M for carbon capture and storage and cleaner energy projects in oil sands region

Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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

Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

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

Airlines Present Climate Change Proposals at UN Forum; 50% Absolute Cut In Emissions by 2050 Compared to 2005

It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

Waxman/Markey Bill Accelerates Infrastructure and Build-out for Plug-Ins, Calls for Harmonization of Motor Vehicle GHG Standards; 3% of Emissions Allowances for Cap-and-Trade Go to Auto Industry

ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

ARB: California not tracking to meet required GHG reductions due to transportation; significant changes in communities and systems required

BREAKING NEWS: Exxon/Mobil Ordered Out of Torrance, Guilty of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

A New Enterprise Linux Alliance

IATA: Airline Industry Targeting Carbon-Neutral Growth By 2020

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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