Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

Many of these false claims center on three categories of impacts commonly attributed to renewable energy development: impacts to the environment, impacts to human health, and impacts to the economy. jobs ( it does not ). Read the full report here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The agreement also incorporates a transparent reporting and review process, which encourages accountability and facilitates regular assessment of progress toward global climate goals. Take the Portuguese youth case , a groundbreaking 2020 initiative accusing 33 countries of violating human rights by neglecting climate action.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Current rates of progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene would need to quadruple to meet UN targets. A new report found that global progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene goals is falling short. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons.

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JUNE 8, 2021

We’re not making any progress if we try to combine all of that and make a prediction for the whole world. That’s the only way we can make progress.”. The UNESCO-backed study, which was published June 8 in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, is a sign of progress. Every species behaves differently.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The Mar del Plata conference aimed for wiser management of an essential resource in order to improve environmental health and “promote human dignity and happiness.” Environmental health and human dignity are again on the agenda. Forty-six years later, the challenges remain. Will the water conference change the course?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In an era of increasingly catastrophic wildfire impacts, with wildland fires that raze human communities, causing destruction, loss, and trauma, a broader-based evaluation of impacts is essential. Download as PDF

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Nobody in all his long career ever called him progressive. With little difficulty we can envision these leading to more human-oriented problems — hunger, disease, population displacement, and conflict — problems that could grow unmanageable from governance and international security perspectives.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here’s what you need to know: People are exposed to multiple chemicals Exposure science is the study of how, and to what extent, humans come into contact with environmental factors, including chemicals. These features partly determine how chemicals interact in the human body, whether and where they accumulate (i.e.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

More than 30 years have passed since the enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which requires federal agencies and specific museums to repatriate certain Native American human remains and other cultural items.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

That sounds like they’re putting a cash value on a human life. So you can see that what’s really being valued is risk, not the inherent worth of a human life. Q: Why are progressives unhappy with cost-benefit analysis? Q: So who favors cost-benefit analysis?

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Scientific American

JUNE 24, 2021

If they’re really aliens—and they’re benevolent—studying them could potentially transform the prospects for human knowledge and progress. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In addition to this summit, world leaders must use every opportunity to make multilateral and bilateral progress on climate issues ahead of COP28, to ensure that nations arrive at COP in the best position to consolidate that progress and deliver a robust outcome.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Progress has been made under one President, only to be battered down by the next one. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. There’s been a lot less of the backsliding we’ve seen at the federal level and more durable progress. climate policy.

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Earthava

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As humans continued to make progress in scientific innovations, the environment bore the brunt of such strides. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, Continental Europe, as well as the United States in 1760, the most negative impact has been on the environment.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 14, 2022

American innovators and researchers are making progress exploring human-made geothermal reservoirs, which, along with technologies to capture … Continue reading EERE Success Story—FORGE-ing Ahead with U.S. homes around the clock. Most of that energy has been largely inaccessible, but that’s about to change. Geothermal.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, despite their importance, progress toward achieving an SDG-aligned building sector is "off track." According to Obonyo, buildings play a crucial role in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Click Here to register. For more information about the spring 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

When nuclear arms control was in We had a chance, after the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, to put humanity on an inalterable path towards the general and complete nuclear disarmament all G7 governments promised us when they ratified or acceded to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ( NPT ).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Michigan legislative leaders say they expect lots of attention this year to water affordability and quality issues, starting with a bill that would declare water to be a human right. Past versions of the “human right to water” bill failed to get hearings in the Republican-led legislature. A bill sponsored by Sen.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 12, 2024

Read the full story from the Center for Progressive Reform. This post is the sixth in a series about human rights and environmental, climate, and energy justice. The series builds on a forthcoming article, Environmental Justice as Environmental Human Rights, by Member Scholar John H. Knox and co-author Nicole Tronolone.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Jason Gray: Progress is possible, but needs to happen everywhere. However, past experience in Brazil shows that such progress can be reversed when political winds change. I think that’s a first. Malia Garcia: Scientists Confirm Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event Across 53 Countries by Earth.org.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2022

Recently, UCS organized a sign-on letter endorsed by 10 scientific, professional, and academic organizations, asking 24 federal science agencies about their progress toward advancing more inclusive science advice. Building on progress so far. Human Impact Partners. You can find the full text of the letter below or at this link.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2024

Some 20–35% of human-generated greenhouse gases come from food, agriculture, and land use. And those emissions are growing — even in countries that are making progress … Continue reading Food matters: Why climate change may hinge on what we eat and how we grow it But that’s not the whole story.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

We’re not making any progress if we try to combine all of that and make a prediction for the whole world. That’s the only way we can make progress.”. The UNESCO-backed study, which was published June 8 in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, is a sign of progress. Every species behaves differently.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

At the heart of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment, lie the principles of engaging with partners and stakeholders at all levels to foster collaboration, innovation, and progress,” said EPA Deputy Regional Administrator Cathy Libertz.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By nature, human beings are an adaptable, generalist species. And of course, there’s another complication about human beings, which is that we are very imperfect cooperators. But we’ve created a situation where we’ve adjusted everything to live in a very specific climate.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed. State of the Netherlands , Neubauer, et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 1, 2022

The Hershey Company today shared its 2021 ESG Report, highlighting the company's goals and progress across its priority ESG areas including cocoa sustainability, environmental sustainability, responsible sourcing, and human rights. The post How The Hershey Company Reduced Emissions 48% appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In his latest book, Rifkin argues that “the Age of Progress has given way to the Age of Resilience.”. For centuries human civilisation has been driven by the idea of progress, reinforced through philosophy and particular interpretations of science. But there are fundamental flaws to the progress paradigm right from the start.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2021

The worst news is that the situation is only going to get worse as climate change progresses. The modern West is a human construct, dependent on a massive rearrangement of water availability across large areas. This isn’t end-of-the-world doom saying; it’s just the fact about the future of a big chunk of the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Health Effects Institute will holds its Annual Conference in Philadelphia on April 28-30 to hear from air pollution experts from around the world The Conference will feature these scientific sessions-- -- Optimizing research to support policy development -- Fueling the energy transition – challenges, opportunities, and implications for human health (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

You can find them, not only among people who call themselves liberals or progressives, but also among people who consider themselves conservative and/or evangelical. The climate has already been changed by human hands, and I am arguing that we are long past the mandate to care, maintain, preserve, or appreciate.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 19, 2021

Superpowers: Covert activities, crushing of progress. No animals, humans, or non-corporeal entities were harmed in the making of this blog pos t ?. Aliases: “Dark Money,” “Conservative Oligarchs”. Crimes Against the Planet: Funding anti-environmentalist political activities, climate denialism, and think tanks. Name: Mitch McConnell

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA clearly delineates the need to focus on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies as well as sustainable nutrition science , an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of food production, environment and climate, and human health. More is better” is an unsustainable paradigm Historically (and still!),

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Thus far, climate policy and progress has really gone after the “low-hanging fruit.” I think one significant obstacle standing in the way of climate progress is the (rational) hesitance of any one country to take big economic or lifestyle risks if other countries aren’t doing the same. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022.

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