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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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Chief Editor of Environmental Analysis among the most influential analytical scientists in 2021

Frontiers

In 2012 and 2013, she was vice-chair of the European chemistry evaluation panel for the EU Marie-Curie excellence fellowships. Discover the Specialty Grand Challenge article: Environmental Analysis and the Dual Grand Challenge of COVID-19 and Sustainable Development. “

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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. Every two years the assembly meets to provide leadership, catalyze intergovernmental action on the environment and contribute to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Introducing the Global Ghost Gear Initiative Small Grants Recipients of 2022

Ocean Conservancy

Expanding and developing their media, communication and educational resources. Mare Nostrum (Constanta, Romania) )—An environmental NGO based in Romania, Mare Nostrum centers on sustainable development education, conservation of marine and coastal biodiversity, natural resource management and urban management policy.

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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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Book Review: the New Sustainability Advantage

Edouard Stenger

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. If the case for sustainability was compelling then, imagine how much more it is now that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are at grid parity. This is the one I read.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Global climate security conference, London, 2012. Given this variation, then, we can imagine how responses driven by each narrative might range from preparation for conflict, peace building, global aid, to radically transforming the way humans interact with nature.

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