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

Law Columbia

Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System. These suits were brought forward through a unique legal mechanism called ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ’ (roughly translated as compliance action). Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol. Law 1523 of 2012 on risk management.

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Chief Editor of Environmental Analysis among the most influential analytical scientists in 2021

Frontiers

Later, from 2014-2016 she acted as the Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete and has served twice as the Director of postgraduate studies. Discover the Specialty Grand Challenge article: Environmental Analysis and the Dual Grand Challenge of COVID-19 and Sustainable Development. “

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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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Recognizing the Rights of a River: Challenges and Opportunities from Colombia to Colorado

HumanNature

In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided that the Atrato River in Colombia’s northwest Department of Chocó is a recognized rights-holding subject, with specific rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.

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What does physics look like, and does it matter?

Physics World

Twinkle twinkle little star Steve Brown, The Rainbow Star , 2016. Essential boundaries The Doughnut model of economics, a visual framework for sustainable development, from Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics (Penguin Random House 2017). Courtesy: Kate Raworth and Christian Guthier. CC-BY-SA 4.0).

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Nobel Prize winners publish new scientific articles just for kids 

Frontiers

On The Magic Tricks of Superfluids , written by Michael Kosterlitz , awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016. The Nobel initiative is part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Goal 4 – Quality Education in particular. Defying Gravity?

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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.