Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6. Urgent actions required.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. 8] In 1998, the Haitian Collective for the Protection of the Environment and Sustainable Development produced a compilation of two hundred legal texts on the environment.[9]

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Today, the Senate Energy, Environment and Natural Resources ( ENEV ) Committee completes its review of Bill S-5, a long-awaited government bill to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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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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Frontiers

JULY 7, 2023

million collective views, scientists explored topics and advanced fields, including work towards sustainable oceans – one of the sustainable development goals, strategies for the conservation of marine megafauna , research on how the oceans may provide food for humans, and insights into how oceans change. With more than 1.2

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

16 Webinar On Forest Carbon Markets And Payment Programs Expert Panel [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Jan. 16 Webinar On Winter Salting and Local Waterway Impacts: Opportunities To Work For Change [PaEN] -- North Branch Land Trust: Jan. 18 Tree ID Hike In Forest Echo Bird Sanctuary, Luzerne County -- Jan.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

With more than 720,000 collective views, scientists explored topics and advanced fields, including work on trends in urban agriculture , sustainable urban development , urban play , and well-being in urban environments.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. India’s current reliance on coal is inextricably linked with its development process, and a just transition to renewable energy requires stronger international support. Political targets. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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Dario Piselli

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

A new, open access article I co-authored with Yixian Sun and Defne Gonenc is out in online first view for the journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

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Frontiers

JULY 5, 2022

Prof Jeff Camkin, of the University of Western Australia, is a water and sustainable development specialist. Widening inequality in access to scientific and technological knowledge and resources is hampering the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prof Jeff Camkin.

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation. This blog explores these elements and how they imply a paradigm shift in Chilean climate governance, becoming a leader in Latin America for climate action. Governance. There was ample public participation in the process.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

To address ghost gear in North America, the Canadian government joined the GGGI in 2018 during the G7 meeting, followed by the United States government, the world’s largest economy and a major fishing nation, in 2020. So far, 18 countries have joined the GGGI to contribute to a cleaner, safer and more resilient ocean. What is NANCI?

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss accessibility to clean water and sanitation as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 through the lens of Rachel’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change. However, I do not believe it is too late to address these large issues.

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. 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. Then things move on.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. 2) Develop a plan of action for decontamination. 3) Develop a plan of action to eradicate and neutralize illegal mining. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. The cost, currently set by the US government at US$51 per metric tonne, plays a pivotal role in determining policy. What is the social cost of carbon?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After a wave of commitments to end international coal finance this year, this is the first international political commitment that also addresses public finance for oil and gas. A recent Abacus Data poll also found 62% of Canadians want the Canadian government to establish a plan to stop taxpayer subsidies going to the oil and gas industry.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

All event proceeds will go to support the work of Environmental Defence Canada in mobilizing government, industry and communities for ambitious climate action. For more information or to request an interview, please contact: Paula Gray, Environmental Defence, pgray@environmentaldefence.ca.

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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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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Testimony from renowned experts highlighted the growing importance of sustainable finance internationally, the urgency of aligning finance and climate, and the lack of progress on these issues in the Canadian financial and political ecosystem. The time for asking politely is over.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities Rural voices are increasingly lamented as forgotten and unacknowledged. Environment?:

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

In Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges, Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal and I looked at how hydropower was crucial for energy security and Pakistan. However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Tomorrow, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), will begin a review of Bill S-5, government legislation that modernizes the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Gov. 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The objects of young Chinese people’s reproductive climate concerns can be put into three main categories: degradation of future living environments; threat to physical and mental health; and indirect social, political and economic consequences. to 2.6C, far above the “safe” limit of 1.5C

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.”

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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 . Daniel Bodansky.

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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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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. ESG covers environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity, as well as companies’ social impact and governance mechanisms. in 2015 to 13.3%

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma By Suhana Roy The principle of sustainable development is a principle of international law that reconciles the right to development with the need to protect the environment.-

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