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What can we learn from EU’s battery regulation?

Legal Planet

This regulation is designed to reduce the carbon footprint of batteries, limit the use of hazardous materials, decrease reliance on raw materials from outside the EU, and promote high rates of collection, reuse, and recycling. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

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What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021

Circle of Blue

Climate change is threatening freshwater systems in Colombia, where cloud forests provide 70 percent of the country’s drinking water. They are vital for recycling moisture from land to air and back again. This week, Circle of Blue reports on how climate change is gripping trout streams across the United States.

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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuel extraction not only ignites climate change, but degrades land and wildlife ecosystems, pollutes waterways, acidifies the oceans, exacerbates natural disasters, expropriates Indigenous land , and leads to devastating chronic health impacts for fossil fuel industry workers and adjacent communities.

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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?

A Greener Life

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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How to Spread the Word About Climate Change

Environment Blog

Climate change has never been more relevant – global warming is impacting everything we do, from the food we eat and the transport we use to the homes we live in, our family and friends, and the air we breathe. You don’t need to radically change someone’s perspective to make the exchange a success.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity. In these official documents there is no mention of domestic pollution or climate change. Another major issue, deforestation, is the result of a surprising incentive.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. The biggest issues of the age include climate change and resource depletion, an issue that will affect coming generations as previous generations add to the depletion and environmental damage.