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COP29 Must Increase Climate Finance and Stand Up to the Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Source: Olamide Martins Ogunlade The conference brought together representatives from local communities, grassroots leaders, civil society organizations, government officials, women’s groups, youth movements, environmental advocates, and international allies, toward the goals of advancing a just energy transition and building climate resilience.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Perspective | Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water

Circle of Blue

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. Women in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, gather water.

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Brodhead Watershed Association Water At Risk - Counting Our Blessings

PA Environment Daily

Thats why today, from the federal government, to the state level, to each county, township or borough, elected officials have legal responsibilities when it comes to protecting water. This protects our creeks and streams but keep in mind that no level of government sets safety standards for, or monitors, private wells.

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UN Conference on Water Aims to Rally Support for Ambitious Goals

Circle of Blue

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems.

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Governing the sustainability commons

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The Supreme Court’s West Virginia decision puts the ball of developing rules for business to contribute meaningfully to sustainability squarely in the private sector’s court. Sustainable Development Goals, U.S. leadership is … Continue reading Governing the sustainability commons.