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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

“While Colorado River water users have invested billions of dollars to reduce consumption and increase resiliency, the situation we face today is real and urgent,” John Entsminger, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on May 25. million acres.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Woodrow Wilson Center Press Deudney, D. Millennium 19 (3): 461-476. Hardt, J.N.,

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

SIDS make up about 1% of the world’s population and face similar economic, social and environmental challenges due to factors including their geographical location, reliance on natural resources and limited industrial activities (Thomas, 2020). Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505. OECD (2022). Johnson, C., & Baptiste, A.

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th City of Oroville, 219 Cal.App.4th Energy Impacts and Efficiency. The revised guidelines incorporate a new subdivision on energy impacts (Section 15126.2(b)),

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[Act] of all trades, litigable to none: A Critical Examination of Malaysia’s Proposed Climate Change Bill

Law Columbia

Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. Between 1970 and 2013, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak experienced surface mean temperature increases of 0.14C0.25C per decade. and 6.1%, with net revenue falling by MYR 442.42 (~USD 99.52) per ha.

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Climate—and a Cautionary Tale of Three New Hampshire Commissioners

Union of Concerned Scientists

The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners.

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Meet Maia Bellon: Maia Bellon: The Fearless Lawyer and TNC Trustee Who is a Bridge Between Worlds

Washington Nature

Before joining Cascadia Law Group and TNC, Maia first joined the Ecology Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office in 1994, and eventually landing the position as the head of Ecology’s Water Resources Program in 2010. She also tackled the challenge of containing leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.