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Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY

Vermont Law

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. 8] In 1998, the Haitian Collective for the Protection of the Environment and Sustainable Development produced a compilation of two hundred legal texts on the environment.[9]

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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. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and The Politics OfSecurity. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time. All this comes amid a broader national debate over the creation of the country’s new constitution.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.”

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Daniel Bodansky.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Gleick claims I contradict myself by writing, “When it comes to protecting the environment by moving to superior alternatives, public attitudes and political action matter,” to which Gleick adds, “exactly the point of environmental advocacy groups like Greenpeace that worked to change public opinion.”