Is My Company Required to Comply with the Paris Agreement?
Nota Bene Episode 33: Congressional Check-In for Q2: Paris Agreement, Presidential Nominees, and Privacy with Elizabeth Frazee
US formally submits notification of withdrawal from Paris Agreement. On January 27, 2025, Dorothy Camille Shea, the US acting ambassador to the United Nations, submitted a notification of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement...more
In his first week in office, President Trump issued a series of executive orders that touched on energy and the environment. These orders are likely to significantly alter the makeup and actions of the executive branch for...more
The previous annual finance goal (the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCGC)) of $100 billion expires this year. However, wealthy countries only met the pledge in full starting in 2022. Negotiation teams are working on draft...more
Day three of the 29th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29 saw the end of the first part of the high-level segment for heads of state and other global leaders in Baku as well as the announcement of...more
The 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ('COP29') may offer opportunities for key stakeholders to foster international cooperation on using market-based cooperative...more
“Net zero” is a topic as hot as the climate these days. With so much regulatory attention being placed on it, companies that do not communicate their net zero efforts appropriately or, worse, intentionally make false and...more
On September 5, 2023, the Corporate Leaders Group Europe (CLG Europe) published a position paper urging the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 90% by 2040, and asked EU member states to...more
Holland & Knight's Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Industry Sector Group invites you to read the Climate Week Report, which provides insights and analysis of the important developments from U.S. Climate Action Week, held...more
Over April 22nd and 23rd, the Biden administration hosted 40 world leaders in a climate summit coinciding with Earth Day. The leaders announced a variety of pledges and ambitions relating to curbing greenhouse gas emissions...more
Today, we issued a Client Alert summarizing the White House Climate Change Summit from last week. We are replicating it below for the benefit of our blog readers. President Biden hosted the Leaders Summit on Climate (Climate...more
In its first week in office, the Biden Administration took initial steps to meet its ambitious goals to address climate change. These steps are contained in a January 20, 2021, executive order (the "Day One Order"), a January...more