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• The Biden - Harris ticket entails an avowal to go 100% greenhouse gas emission-free through means of a $2 trillion initiative to ensure the U.S. electricity grid is entirely carbon emission-free by 2035, and making use of regulations and subsidies to zero out net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
• The revised Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution and the National Emissions Ceiling Regulations requires the UK to reduce emissions of PM2.5 by 30% compared to emissions in 2005 by 2020 (and by 46% compared to emissions in 2005 by 2030).
• Due to AI regulation, various innovations are taking place in the European region, so Europe is expected to grow at the fastest pace in the coming years.
• The California Air Resources Board will write up regulations mandating that all sales of new vehicles are zero-emission by 2035 - residents would still be able to own fossil-fuel vehicles, and buy and sell then.
• In 2019, Namibia became the first country in Africa to export beef to the United States after 15 years of working to satisfy safety regulations and logistics, and is set to export 860 tons of beef to the U.S. in 2020, rising to 5,000 tons by 2025.
• Under current regulations, California's Air Resources Board requires automakers to sell electric, fuel cell and other zero-emission vehicles in increasing percentages through 2025.
• The California Air Resources Board will develop regulations to mandate that 100% of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks are zero-emission by 2035, which would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35%.
• At the state level, two states - Oregon and California - have already legislated IoT security laws that will go into effect in 2020.
• To meet a state law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018 requiring 100% of California's energy to come from carbon-free or renewable sources by 2045, there is no room for gas plants.
• Last year Luxembourg launched a 10-step framework to implement the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals and drafted a climate law to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% until 2030.
• The final report from Climate Assembly UK supports a ban on sales of new gas boilers and new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2030-2035 to help Britain meet its legal goal to cut emissions to net zero by mid-century.
• The Welsh Government said it was a small but important step towards its legal requirement to cut the emission of greenhouse gases by at least 80% by 2050.
• If no new legislation affecting spending and revenues is enacted, the US budget deficit for fiscal year 2020 will total $3.3 trillion.
• The European Union has a law banning single-use plastic set to come into force in 2021, but it does not include sachets.
• The Trump Administration continues to relax rules for reporting workplace accidents, though a new law in California is expected to preserve many Obama-era requirements.
• Large companies in the UK could soon be mandated to prove that their supply chains are free from illegal deforestation or face hefty fines, under new due diligence legislation being developed by the Department for Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra).
• The German Federal Government plans to pass a supply chain act by the beginning of 2021 that will create binding regulations requiring companies to adhere to human rights and environmental protections.
• Absent new legislation, more than 20% of Black and Hispanic people in households where job loss occurred are predicted to be in poverty from August until the end of the year.
• Very recently; the UK government DEFRA; confirmed a sale ban which could raise standards (laws) further with regards fur products by the introduction of new laws; once the UK is completely free in 2021.
• Many US states are introducing their own climate change-related regulations, notably California and New York, and that a Joe Biden-led administration would likely take a very different approach to climate change from 2021, if elected.
• Policymakers are facing pressure to reverse or suspend legislation that would address plastic waste and pollution, such as Canada's proposal to ban harmful single-use plastics by 2021.
• The market for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems is experiencing high growth that we expect will accelerate with the need for safety features and new regulations targeted to come into effect in the next 3 to 4 years.
• New Zealand set the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act into law in 2019, which aims at net zero emissions of all greenhouse gases other than biogenic methane by 2050.

Last updated: 06 October 2020