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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack. As in the U.S.,

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Simply by taking West Virginia v.

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WeConservePA Honors Cynthia Carrow With 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award

PA Environment Daily

In her current role as vice president, government and community relations, she has oversight of all public policy matters and strategic government affairs. She steered the relocation of WPCs headquarters, not once but twice, most recently to Washingtons Landing in Pittsburgh in 2007.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.13.23

PA Environment Daily

Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Voters To Be Asked To Approve Open Space Tax; South Whitehall Twp.

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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

This new financing comes from the LEAF Coalition , a partnership between the governments of the USA, UK and Norway, alongside some of the world’s largest companies, including Amazon, Nestlé, BlackRock and Walmart. The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge.

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Social Dynamics and Climate Change

Law Columbia

The conference was commissioned by the French government to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the social and institutional changes that will be needed to mitigate and adapt to global climate change. For example, in a panel on energy transitions, the speakers uniformly recognized that government intervention (e.g.,

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Here are a few other examples: The French government issued earlier this year the first large national green bond , worth no less than seven billion euros with a 22-year maturity.