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

A Greener Life

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

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‘La Acción de Cumplimiento’ as a Legal Mechanism to Implement Colombian Climate Change Laws

Law Columbia

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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A Right to Fossil Fuels? Pressure Mounts for Developing Countries to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Law Columbia

In his inaugural address , incoming General Assembly President Peter Thompson declared that the session would focus on advancing the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015. In this new era, questions abound regarding what constitutes “sustainabledevelopment and how to achieve it.

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Canada joins historic commitment to end international fossil fuel finance by end of 2022

Enviromental Defense

Yet, new research by Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth US shows that between 2018 and 2020, G20 governments and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) still spent at least $188 billion on fossil fuels. times more than G20 support for renewable energy, which averaged $26 billion per year. This was 2.5

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How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities

HumanNature

This is driven by a sentiment shared among rural residents that political decisions are often made by those outside of their communities who have differing values and access to more resources including money, time and power (Cramer 2016). Science and Policy for Sustainable Development , 58 (5), 4–23. link] Cramer.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. The money will be allocated to energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions, among many others. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. 6 How does EQIP work? NRCS Protracts.

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