Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

But we can and must take actions now to save lives, limit harms and ensure climate action is aligned with sustainable development goals. And, of course, the US must secure policies to deliver on its commitment to cut its heat-trapping emissions 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

After months of research and interviews with dozens of authorities on five continents, WASH Within Reach unravels the complexity of a global sector that now spends over $20 billion a year and is on its way to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene for everyone on Earth by 2030.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Despite green rhetoric from the government, the situation is not likely to improve soon. That’s because, of the 41 gigawatts (GW) of new generation capacity expected to come online in the country by 2030, 14-16GW is due to come from coal. We as citizens have the right to express concern because the government and banks are ignorant.”.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By 2030, Colombia aims to reduce its emissions by 51% in all sectors and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. For example, the law ordered the Colombian government to issue specific rules on the specific definition of short-, medium- and long-term as it relates to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) (art. of the national total.

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2023

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. In developed economies, the CFPP is retired at the latest by 2030 and in all other countries by 2040.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on current national GHG emissions commitments for 2030, global temperatures will likely exceed 1.5°C To limit warming to 2°C we must rapidly accelerate climate change mitigation measures and reduce GHG emissions by 27% by 2030 and 63% by 2050. We Urgently Need to Curb Rising Global Temperatures. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2022

The island recently signed up in support of the UN’s sustainable development goals. Local governments have been working hard to promote sustainable and eco-tourism in the area and its goals are aligned with the European Commission’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Benagil Sea Caves.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Indeed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been praised at COP26 for pledging India to be carbon neutral by 2070 with 50% of its energy generation coming from renewable sources by 2030. The government needs to help to retrain people in these coal townships” says Balachandra. Political targets. The post What next for India and coal?

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 13, 2022

UNEA was created in 2012 to foster and create a system of international environmental governance. UNEA sets priorities for global environmental policies and develops international environmental law. It is expected to include national action plans to prevent, reduce, and eliminate plastic pollution.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. It has become routine to announce new initiatives in technology, social entrepreneurship, or philanthropy at COPs.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Instead, it is how are we—the collective we—going to incentivize, recognize, and support large-scale investments to protect forests, reduce and avoid emissions due to land-use change, and do so in a way that supports long-term sustainable development efforts of governments and communities.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

In addition, supra-national obligations related to the recognition of sustainable development and other key principles of environmental protection stem from EU treaties, such as Article 3 of the Treaty of the European Union and Article 37 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. 179/2019 ). In Neubauer, et al. In Neubauer, et al.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

World leaders, government officials and representatives from the private sector and civil society gathered in New York September 16 to 22 for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Week and New York Climate Week. degrees Celsius by 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In fact, solving the issue of ghost gear (abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear) is closely linked with many of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You might be wondering what ghost gear could have to do with climate change.

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A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

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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A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

However, it is still below the investments required each year between 2021 and 2030 if we are to meet the goal of staying on track to limit temperature increases to 1.5 It also emphasised that lending to developing economies to deploy renewables must be reformed, and that public financing must play a stronger role.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This January, we joined leaders from around the world in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to outline the steps needed over the coming years to halve emissions by 2030, achieve sustainable development goals and meet global climate commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Highlights From Summit Agenda Here are just some of the presentations on the agenda for the Sustainability Summit-- October 3 -- 9:00: Welcome - Gov.

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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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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Indian government has not yet finalised its COP26 strategy, but recent speeches by environment minister Bhupender Yadav have focused on the need for industrialised countries to cut their own emissions, and to do so in this decade instead of setting a distant mid-century goal.

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Frontiers

JULY 8, 2022

Hosted by UNESCO in Paris, the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), welcomes leaders from the scientific community from around the world today to its inaugural opening ceremony. The IYBSSD initiative harbours considerable support from the global scientific community.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Scientific research in these interconnected areas is essential for earth science to guide sustainable development. That’s the combination – the beauty – of quantifying the safe boundaries, translating them to policy and governance, and accelerating transformation pathways.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The strategy was developed to integrate the short- and long-term actions in the Climate Action Plan into the City’s development review processes to help reach the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

World leaders, government officials and representatives from the private sector and civil society gathered in New York September 16 to 22 for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Week and New York Climate Week. degrees Celsius by 2030.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

During COP28, Frontiers will showcase its latest initiatives to support global efforts to combat climate change, achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and fulfill the goal of becoming net-zero by 2050. FRONTIERS IN ACTION AT COP28 The urgent nature of the climate crisis demands swift and comprehensive action.

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Acoel

APRIL 14, 2023

For those of you unfamiliar with the IUCN, it is a fairly unique international NGO with an extensive interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral membership base that includes governments, other NGOs, practitioners, academics, and the like. As discussed at the meeting, key 2030 targets under SDG 6 are in jeopardy.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It has been estimated by the Carbon Tracker Initiative that by 2030 the quasi totality will be more expensive to run than solar and wind. Last year, global coal consumption decreased and renewables accounted for 75 percent of global new capacity. Renewables are also more resilient, cleaner and more popular among voters.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

Cases have targeted the federal government for failure to contain a surge in deforestation and the federal environmental agency for easing timber exportation requirements. Extractive activities are based on the concept of sustainable development and require forests to remain intact. Illegal deforestation in traditional land.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Sumudu Atapattu .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. He also called for a quantum leap in climate action and announced an Acceleration Agenda for governments, the financial sector, and businesses.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

This also assumes that there is no impact whatsoever on other areas, that there is no “leakage” from the industrially managed areas to those managed in other ways, and that maintaining agricultural expansion under control is subject to firm and transparent governance.

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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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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. 27] US Global Change Research Program, US Government, “Fourth National climate Assessment, Chapter 10: Agriculture and Rural Communities,” 2017. [28] Elvidge et al.,

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. It is a coalition of more than 550 of the world’s top financial institutions controlling more than $150 trillion in assets.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. The current scenario adds complexity to the perennially intricate climate governance regime.

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