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Economic theory and climate policy

Environment, Law, and History

Drawing on a new dataset of policy reports, we show how economic ideas influenced climate policy advice by major international organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank, from 1990 to 2017.

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STATEMENT: Big Oil’s testimony on emissions reduction misses the big picture 

Enviromental Defense

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Environmental and health groups call out big polluters for lobbying the Senate to weaken and delay environmental protection bill

Enviromental Defense

In 2017, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development recommended strengthening CEPA, leading the government to introduce Bill S-5. More information: Industry letter to the Senate Speaker can be found here. . Consideration of these recommendations has now spanned three sessions of Parliament. .

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Climate Villains Called to Testify on Parliament Hill: 5 Things we Learned from MPs questioning Big Oil

Enviromental Defense

Executives from Suncor, Enbridge, Cenovus, Shell, and Imperial Oil were questioned by MPs on the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee. All the CEOs tried to evade this fact and the CEO of Cenovus even denied it, falsely claiming emissions peaked in 2017. Jun 6, 2024. Together, we can make a difference!

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IUPAP: uniting physicists for the last 100 years

Physics World

I volunteered to create a new working group on astroparticle physics and was chair of it from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 I was approached by Bruce McKellar who at the time was IUPAP president. In 2017 I was approached by Bruce McKellar who at the time was IUPAP president. How did you become president of IUPAP? .

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

Law Columbia

Law 1844 of 2017 on the Paris Agreement. The framework binds Colombia to international agreements, including the UNFCCC (Law 164 of 1994), the Kyoto Protocol (Law 629 of 2000) and the Paris Agreement (Law 1844 of 2017). Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol. Law 1523 of 2012 on risk management.

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COP23 Moves the Oceans from the Blue Zone to the Green Zone

Vermont Law

November 11, 2017. Sustainable Development Goal 14. Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development. By Val Fajardo, 3L Student at Vermont Law School. Oceans Action Day. The one day in a climate change conference where the oceans become the center of discussion.

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