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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Climate change compounds the issues already present in urban environments. more moisture.

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. UN Sustainable Development Goals – Quality Education. The initiative is also part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 – Quality Education.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Those embracing the analytical connection between the environment and security have since adapted their terminology to speak to a wide spectrum of environmental “threats” including climate change, transboundary pollution, natural disasters, and resource scarcities. Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict.

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis. Section 15064.4(2)(b)

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change. The Paris Agreement is organized around NDCs: statements of what each nation plans to do to contribute to resolving climate change. Then things move on.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. In other words, most people are lowering their carbon emissions.