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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Bad Guys in Energy 2022

Energy & the Law

And political malpractice is a new category. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. With it being Lent and all, we ask, are this year’s Ferrymen of the River Styx using these 40 days to turn from wickedness and find their way to repentence?

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EU: last seven years the Earth’s warmest?

A Greener Life

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. There is broadly political and scientific agreement that temperature increases must be limited to 1.5 By Anders Lorenzen.

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Original Student 'Hellbender Defenders' Celebrate 5-Year Anniversary Of PA's Official State Amphibian And Clean Water Ambassador

PA Environment Daily

The signing of Senate Bill 9 on April 23, 2019, was the crescendo of a three-year campaign by the students who had set out three years earlier to recognize the largest salamander in North America and create greater awareness of the critical need to reduce pollution in the Commonwealth’s rivers and streams. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) in 2018.

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G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

A Greener Life

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. More positively, the share of renewables in the power generation mix increased in all G20 countries between 2016 and 2020. By Catherine Early.