Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Their omnipresent influence on national politics and international negotiations has trapped consumers in a fossil fuel-dependent system and threatens to delay climate action even further, with the most severe consequences for those already in the most vulnerable situations.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At a time when we are experiencing increased reliance on and benefits from advancements in science, alongside the need to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence , we need STEM students and professionals to be politically engaged.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. To explore the intersection of digitalization and environmental governance and the power dynamics that are at play, I interviewed three social scientists on the matter. The Belizean government is another strong proponent of SMART, Stinson claims.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to the White House , the National Climate Assessment is a critical resource for “[p]eople who make risk management decisions,” a large group that includes “local government officials, city planners, utility managers, healthcare providers, adaptation specialists, educators, farmers, and small business owners.” 175577 (Exhibit C).

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Since 2018 especially, something has been hinky in Ontario. Emails, ERO input, mass protests, appeals to the federal government to intervene – it was all or nothing for the Greenbelt and democracy. First, hundreds of clean energy contracts were cancelled with the stroke of a pen. You know when you can feel it in your gut, right?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. Carson also explicitly called out the hypocrisy inherent in government agencies at the time. These concerns are still alive today.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. A key element of the actions that GCF Task Force states and provinces are taking to reverse these trends is close partnership with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. We want the government to help us. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. But in 2023 the script has been flipped and the good news keeps on coming. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2022

This Playbook updates the 2018 U.S. Climate Alliance member feedback and seeks to account for changing climate and political developments and… Read more → The 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Graph credit: DeSmog.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Northwest Natural Holding Company— formed in 2018 as the parent company of longtime Portland-based NW Natural Gas Company—has recently expanded into public water utility ownership. Department of Agriculture 2018 report .

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. In a new open access paper , recently published in the journal West European Politics , we argue that the EU’s challenge has emerged from legislative change and the way in which the Member States contribute to achieving the EU’s overall renewable energy targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

In the 19 th century, both freed and escaped slaves ( cimarrones ) settled in Loíza because they could easily remain hidden in the complex mangrove environment, and these geographic conditions had political implications. They have built their support network—the one that the government does not provide—and they have built it themselves.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

An expensive proposition for government. The first challenge is political: we cannot afford to save everything, so that needs to be recognized and tough decisions will need to be made about what to do and what to save. And it won’t be led by the federal government. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2018, while a Senior Fellow for the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, she wrote a report, Beyond Bankruptcy the Outlook for Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Refinery , which accurately predicted that the refinery was headed back into bankruptcy again.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Preparation, both in inter-sessional meetings and in diplomatic efforts by the Egyptian host government, was weak. There was no progress on getting national governments to state stronger ambitions in their NDCs, in the additional specification of global targets, or even in non-binding language regarding intentions to cut fossil fuels.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally. Read more.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. [[N: Id. , 83(1)(a)(ii).]] I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]].

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

Why it matters: In 2018, a World Economic Forum survey found that private sector executives in Egypt, Iran, Namibia, and Pakistan ranked “water crises” as the top business risk in their countries. Circle of Blue reported that fluctuations in the availability of fresh water are even more apparent the deeper one looks at the report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

Many Rural Towns Have Neglected Drinking Water Systems for Decades As some rural towns lose population and government funds shrink, some drinking water systems are one failure away from crisis. There is a general lack of political will, certainly. Can’t afford government loans. water systems are aging. Marvin Hasso, Jr.

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A Greener Life

JULY 31, 2024

These range from supply chain disruptions and political dynamics to issues like anti-dumping tariffs and internal instability. In 2018, Hengtong Optic-Electric secured the rights to build the country’s second-largest solar farm, which has a capacity of 200 MW. Chinese companies play a key role in Cambodia’s solar development.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 10, 2022

To predict plastic accumulation zones in Mediterranean marine conservation areas, the researchers conducted a three-year simulation (between 2016 and 2018) of the distribution of plastic particles in the Mediterranean Sea using a so-called basin-scale particle drift model. Where do plastics accumulate?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Act 54 Assessment Of Longwall Mining Damage The 6th 5-year assessment of Act 54 (2018-2023) is due to be released this year. Political maneuvers from our elected officials who receive campaign donations from the coal mining companies sought to and succeeded in obtaining this deviation. Read more here. Read more here.]

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This government policy, though commendable for its environmental aspirations, has negative implications for both tenants and building owners alike. Under an updated schedule, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2025, forward, buildings that are rated below F or 420 kWh per m² will no longer be allowed to rent flats.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

In response, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the United Nations body that governs global shipping—passed a new strategy to eliminate the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions in July 2023. It is composed almost entirely of methane, which is 27-30 times more potent than CO 2 as a greenhouse gas over a 100-year timeframe and is 82.5

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

In Washington, DC, the political party that governs the House, Senate, and White House is rightly portrayed as a major contributor to policy outcomes. But politics alone is far from the only determinant. Oftentimes, it’s the cost – or projected cost – of a program, policy, or bill that can be just as influential.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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