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Corporate Net-Zero Pledges: The Bad And The Ugly, Jack Arnold, Perrine Toledano
Corporate Net-Zero Pledges: The Bad And The Ugly, Jack Arnold, Perrine Toledano
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted in 2015 and ratified or acceded to by 192 states and the European Union (EU), marked a historic turning point on global climate action. Achieving the agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to not more than 1.5 °C relative to the industrial era (1880-1900) will require a transformation of global energy systems, with the active participation and contribution of all actors in the economy. Many companies have pledged to reach net-zero direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. This report analyzes such pledges by 35 companies across seven industries – oil …
Protecting Climate Change Law From A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine, Andrew Rockett
Protecting Climate Change Law From A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine, Andrew Rockett
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
In an era of political gridlock, a potential revitalization of the nondelegation doctrine threatens the Environmental Protection Agency’s existing framework for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the urgent threat of climate change. At its apex, the nondelegation doctrine briefly constrained permissible delegations from the legislature to the executive branch after two Supreme Court decisions in 1935. The doctrine has since weakened under the lenient “intelligible principle” standard. That standard today allows the legislative branch to make broad delegations to administrative arms of the executive branch, which then use technological and bureaucratic expertise to clarify, implement, and enforce statutes. The …