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‘La Acción de Cumplimiento’ as a Legal Mechanism to Implement Colombian Climate Change Laws

Law Columbia

Law 1523 of 2012 on risk management. It also provides guidelines on how to manage risky activities and specifically treats climate change as a natural and human-made risk (Law 1523 of 2012). These suits were brought forward through a unique legal mechanism called ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ’ (roughly translated as compliance action).

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A Global Instrument to End Plastic Pollution

Ocean Conservancy

UNEA was created in 2012 to foster and create a system of international environmental governance. UNEA sets priorities for global environmental policies and develops international environmental law. It is expected to include national action plans to prevent, reduce, and eliminate plastic pollution.

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Introducing the Global Ghost Gear Initiative Small Grants Recipients of 2022

Ocean Conservancy

GGGI membership includes representatives from academia, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector dedicated to combat this most harmful form of marine debris. Expanding and developing their media, communication and educational resources.

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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. Global climate security conference, London, 2012.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Analysis: Can one of Brazil’s deforestation hotspots become a green leader?

A Greener Life

The initiative is unprecedented at government level, with projects driving the bioeconomy largely having been led by environmental organisations and traditional communities at smaller scales. Neves is president of the Association of Women Producers of Fruit Pulp (AMPPF), founded in 2012. The state expects to invest 1.2

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Sports Organizations Buy Carbon Offsets to Finance Cookstoves in Low-Income African Countries

Law Columbia

As corporations, individuals and other non-government actors look to increase their climate engagement , buying carbon offsets in the voluntary market presents one way to meet sustainability targets. Yet both compliance and voluntary carbon markets present challenges for clean cookstove entities seeking finance.