Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles. –Constanza Boselli, LLM 2021. Despite their ‘headstart’, many developed countries are doubling down on fossil fuels, such as Australia.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric speaks in Santiago, the day after his election victory in December 2021. For Ana Lia Rojas, executive director of the Chilean Association of Renewable Energies (ACERA), Huepe’s immediate challenge as minister will be to confront the country’s stretched electricity system.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. Law 2169 of 2021 on carbon neutrality and climate resilience. Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Shifting public finance for energy out of all fossil fuels and into clean energy is an urgent task. The International Energy Agency says that to limit global warming to 1.5°C, C, 2021 needs to mark the end of investments in not just coal, but also new oil and gas supply. GMT 4 November 2021. This was 2.5

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A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The world invested a record-high amount in renewables in 2022, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. It revealed that the global investments in renewable energy as well as energy efficiency reached $ 1.3

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

billion people expected to be residing in urban areas by the year 2050 (United Nations, 2021), the cities of the future will need to be able to accommodate this urban growth, whilst ensuring residences an affordable, healthy and productive lifestyle. With an estimated 2.5 Figure 2: Urban Heat Island Profile. Foster, 2020.Urban Rojas-Rueda, D.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

-- PA American Water Partners With Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership To Plant Trees For Customers Who Switch To Paperless Billing In April [PaEN] -- Stewards Of The Water Start On Land, Susquehanna River Basin Commission Volunteers Plant Trees At Horn Farm Center In York County [PaEN] -- Gettysburg: Adams County Watershed Alliance, Keystone 10 (..)

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. First, rural residents have a lower income rate than their urban counterparts, leaving fewer resources to pay for damages that might occur in the face of climatic events (Kumar 2021). Science and Policy for Sustainable Development , 58 (5), 4–23.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Glass is the invisible tool to build a more sustainable and fairer planet.”. Born in Argentina, Durán was a key player in boosting support for the IYOG2022 while serving as ICG president between 2018 and 2021 (see “How 2022 became the International Year of Glass” box). Courtesy: James Dacey).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“When I first took office, our efforts around sustainability consisted of one person in the manager’s office. Over the last decade, we have invested in hydropower and alternative fuel and electric vehicles, improved our stormwater management, and practiced sustainable development,” said County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Over the next four years, the City Energy Strategy will integrate energy plans into planning and development review to evaluate energy systems decisions early in the planning process and improve long-term coordination between utilities, permit holders and developers.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To do so, this mechanism will mobilise at least €100 billion in investments over the period 2021-2027 (p.1). The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. The JTF composes the 1 st pillar.

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A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

trillion) as of March 2021.? . The need for more incisive climate action and disclosure doesn’t just apply to banks, but to most public sector energy giants too, says Balasubramanian Viswanathan, a policy adviser with the think tank International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

3 In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2021 Award Recipients [PaEN] -- Great Lakes Protection Fund: Announces 2021 Leadership Award Winners, Including 2 From Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council: To Honor Former DEP Secretary David Hess With The Fox Calhoun Award At Virtual Awards Celebration Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

Colombia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Irene Vélez, discusses renewable energy projects with Wayuu Indigenous communities in the northern department of La Guajira. Elsewhere, other renewable energy projects have been unable to connect and deliver power to the grid, the National Interconnected System.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2022

Report Warns -- Bloomberg Green: Climeworks Raises $650 Million For Carbon Removal Startup -- Reuters: Accuweather Forecasts 2022 To Be 7th Straight Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season -- Reuters: Alaska Oil Field Natural Gas Leak Estimated At 7.2

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. According to figures from the LinkedIn report, in 2021 there was a big jump in the number of job listings requiring green skills, with those ads accounting for half of the total, far more than the global average. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Hopefully, 2021 will bring more exciting stories and analysis…). (This post was published earlier this year on Medium. Sorry for the lack of content this year. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought our global economy to a standstill, with fears of the worst recession since 1929. Such a plan would also create over 70 million jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

3 In Philadelphia Great Lakes Protection Fund Announces 2021 Leadership Award Winners, Including 2 From Pennsylvania Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2021 Award Recipients PA Resources Council To Honor Former DEP Secretary David Hess With The Fox Calhoun Award At Virtual Awards Celebration Oct. 7-8; New Live Webinars Nov.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Digesters are key nodes in a growing movement to use biogas derived from animal manure for energy, sometimes under the guise of “green” or “renewable” energy. United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. California Agricultural Statistics Review 2021-2022. Sustainable Development of Water Resources.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Despite ambitions that align with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans for greater, “sustainable” development in the Far North, the company has continuously contaminated landscapes and waterways. Recycling Could Make Water-Guzzling Ag Operations More Sustainable. In Case You Missed It: .

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Year in Water, 2021. Water Crises Take Center Stage By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 9, 2021. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. Too little. Too polluted. For years these compact phrases, mantra-like in their repetition, have come to define the world’s water problems.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

For example, the DOE assembled its various agencies to tackle the energy crisis of the 1970s. The need for an Ocean Policy Committee in 2021 indicates the potential for efficiency increases by creating DOA. Additionally, the Biden administration has invested $240 million into aquaculture.

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Brag

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On September 30, 2021, DOE announced the launch of a new prize that will award up to $2.5 The Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize acknowledges that underserved populations have been and continue to be more susceptible to the negative impact of climate change, global warming, and pollution. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Instead, the bank continued to fund nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects into 2021 according to a report last month endorsed by a global consortium of environmental groups. That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. May 19, 2021). 19-1189 (U.S.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to end Chinese financing of new coal-fired powerplants outside of China and increase funding for renewable energy. EESI : The Environment and Energy Study Institute will hold a briefing series for Congress ahead of the COP26 UN climate change conference. 2021 (Oct.

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