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APRIL 1, 2025

Academics, civil society, and government officials were divided into groups focusing on science, health, labor, and the built environment. They have neither employers to provide benefits nor political parties to represent their interests. This group of women learns about specific adaptation technologies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Act hands over energy planning to the Minister, marginalizing energy experts at the Independent Energy System Operator (IESO) and Ontario Energy Board (OEB)—whose mandate is to ensure decisions are based on evidence, not politics. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling.

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MARCH 1, 2023

National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Jill Hruby recently described growing international interest in nuclear technology and the weapons it can produce as a “renaissance.” Independent governments in weaker countries will be overthrown. But he can help the US government avoid repeating past mistakes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection or SAI.) The firm is small and new, operating with a claimed total of $750K of venture financing.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Governments, including COP28 host the United Arab Emirates, acknowledge this fact. What’s lacking is political will. Let’s be clear, evidence from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report supports the necessity for substantial reductions in fossil fuel consumption to limit global warming.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA). Germany of the Federal Constitutional Court, the focus of the decision is not on fundamental rights, but on administrative questions of climate governance and enforcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

Reuters described the decision as “a protest of Washington’s arms sales to the democratically governed island of Taiwan.” The past two US administrations defined China as a “strategic competitor,” disparaged scientific cooperation, imposed economic tarrifs, and restricted Chinese access to critical technologies, markets and investments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

They knew that the US technological lead would be temporary, urging that all US resources be devoted to creating a system of international control over nuclear weapons. Wartime utterly transformed the economic, political, and social fabric of the nation state, harnessing every possible resource to fuel the war effort.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) inspire students daily by revealing what we’ve discovered about the world around us and what we can do next with the latest innovations. There are many nonpartisan strategies STEM educators can take to foster political awareness and action in their students.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. Members of Parliament must put politics aside and pass this important legislation.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Reynolds, who recently completed an Emmett Institute Geoengineering Governance Fellowship. As the climate crisis grows more urgent, unconventional technological responses are getting increased attention and controversy. We’ve written previously on Legal Planet about these technologies and their promise and risks.

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JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improving the communication networks between science, government, and the public needs creative and effective strategies at multiple levels, and engagement from all participants. However, through creating better communication networks between voters, policy makers, and scientists, such hurdles can be overcome.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

NOAA is a science-based agency of the federal government that was created by the executive branch in 1970, bringing together science-based commissions, bureaus and offices the country relied on for years, including what was known as the Weather Bureau, the Fisheries Commission, and the Survey of the Coast office. In 1977, Rep.

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APRIL 16, 2024

The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed. How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. The destruction that remains months after the first eruption is evidence, residents say, of government failure. . The name embraces St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. The scientists who wrote the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report earlier this year warned that governments must act quickly to keep the 1.5 The technology to keep the planet under 1.5 The technology to keep the planet under 1.5

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Physics World

MARCH 11, 2022

As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Additionally, investment-related litigation gained prominence, shaping governance in the face of climate change. Nearly half of the climate litigation cases filed by local and state governments in the United States against the fossil fuel industry mention wildfire.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

The political movement culminating in the passage of the Clean Water Act was triggered by several environmental disasters in the late 1960’s that shocked Americans and motivated them to take action to clean up the nation’s heavily-polluted waterways.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

That doesn’t seem to be politically feasible at the national level, at present. Those states often have conservative governments that won’t be interested in providing this kind of incentive. Utility regulators are often leery of authorizing investments in new technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He is echoing the lessons learned during the RISE Conference held on his campus in 2019, where more than five hundred academics, community members and government officials met to discuss the role of universities in disasters. Universities and communities can build a more just, resilient response to disasters.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

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JULY 13, 2021

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

At the entrance to the quantum physics and information lab at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the country’s premier quantum research centre , visitors are greeted by a message in Chinese: “When I look back on my life, there were many hardships. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally. Great power rivalry.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. As environmental degradation and climate change intensify, society increasingly turns to digital technologies to live more sustainably and protect biodiversity and other natural resources, such as land, water, and energy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission is a senior independent international body, consisting of twelve distinguished individuals from around the world, including former heads of government, national ministers, and leaders of major environment, development, and civil society organizations. They can speak and discuss freely.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Basically, I go back to my freshman year geopolitics class from college and the professor who really got us thinking about political geography, but the layers of geography. Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. Then there’s politics, civil wars, conflicts and so forth.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. While some undervotes are intentional, confusing ballot design and voting technology has been linked to over and undervotes rates. Several judicial races hadn’t been listed on the online sample ballot.

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