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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?

HumanNature

Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.

Legal Planet

And we’ve seem successes in other GCF Task Force countries, in particular in Indonesia, which has been a real leader over the last several years in achieving large reductions in deforestation – a 64% reduction from 2020-2022 as compared with 2015-2017.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2015, he continued to push for a fossil fuel-free lifestyle by adding geothermal energy to his home as well. In 2017, he even organized bus transportation for local activists to attend the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

In 2015, the environment ministry acknowledged that the plant was “causing flooding, loss of farmlands and conflict among farmers, herdsmen and fishermen.” At least twice between 2015 and 2017, former environment minister Amina Mohammed visited the wetlands in Yobe to study the situation. 530 million ($1.2