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Observations from COP28 on the Loss and Damage Fund

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For developing countries and small island states, the consequences of stronger storms, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and other climate-related phenomena will be difficult to endure, and the countries who will likely suffer the most are often the least responsible for climate change.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

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While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Woodrow Wilson Center Press Deudney, D. Millennium 19 (3): 461-476. Hardt, J.N.,

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

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SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505. OECD (2022). Geoforum , 47 , 125-137.

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4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th City of Oroville, 219 Cal.App.4th Energy Impacts and Efficiency. The revised guidelines incorporate a new subdivision on energy impacts (Section 15126.2(b)),

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

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Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4