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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. These provisions against military use are also present in a 2018 contract for Russia to provide fuel for the CFR-600 reactors. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants.

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Digitalization and Predictive Policing in Conservation

Legal Planet

SMART was developed around 2011 by a range of international conservation organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund, Peace Parks Foundation, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. It became the official monitoring system for terrestrial and marine protected areas in Belize in 2018.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D. In short, how we conceptualize environmental security will shape our response to environmental challenges.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Gurney, K.

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Recent INTERPOL Reforms Provide Insight Into Strategies for Challenging Improper Red Notices

Arnold Porter

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] 83(1)(a)(i), Doc.