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Sustainable Development through Model Forests on the Island of Enchantment

Vermont Law

By focusing on sustainable development, model forests attempt to mediate the coexistence of humans and nature. However, good governance of natural resources demands public participation. Private interests argued that sustainability should focus on the economic benefits the project would bring to the Island, while minimizing the.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

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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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

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.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Throws Oil and Coal Industries in a Tailspin

Edouard Stenger

In the US, electricity generation from coal went from 50% in 2007 to 15% now. Renewables are also more resilient, cleaner and more popular among voters. In such conditions, how could the coal industry survive? According to Associated Press , six of the top seven U.S.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Here are a few other examples: The French government issued earlier this year the first large national green bond , worth no less than seven billion euros with a 22-year maturity.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. 9 (2007): 1962-1979, [link]. [10] Capper et al, “The environmental impact of dairy production: 1944 compared with 2007,” Journal of Animal Science, June 2009. [57]

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Policy News: September 27, 2021

ESA

House passes stop-gap federal government funding measure, fate in the Senate remains unclear. Appropriations: House Democrats approved a stop-gap spending measure to keep the government open after fiscal year ends Sept. In this issue: Congress. Executive Branch. Judge orders U.S. Federal Register opportunities. The bill includes $28.6

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