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Celebrating 15 years of blogging

Edouard Stenger

This short experience opened a world of opportunities to me and I was able to bank on those few months to work again in that industry, with much smaller biodigesters. Coming back to France in 2019, I found the same problem I had left : it was impossible for me to work in the energy transition without some semblance of a technical degree.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. ” The European Money and Finance Forum, SUERF Policy Note Issue.

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

The programme has ruled out using funds from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), as the lender has been closing its doors to financing coal-fired plants since 2018. billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center.

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Canada delivers on climate promise, takes significant step towards ending public fossil finance 

Enviromental Defense

Vanessa Corkal, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development. From 2019 to 2021, Canada supported fossil fuels 11 times more than renewables. From 2019 to 2021, Canada supported an annual average of CAD 11.1 Émile Boisseau-Bouvier, Climate Policy Analyst, Équiterre.

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Observations from COP28 on the Loss and Damage Fund

Law Columbia

WIM is the constituted body created to “address loss and damage associated with impacts of climate change, including extreme events and slow onset events, in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” During the opening plenary, the COP adopted a decision ( FCCC/CP/2023/L.1

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European Green Deal - What is the Just Transition Mechanism?

Energy and Climate Law

Introduction On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission presided by Ursula Von der Leyen presented the European Green Deal. The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. By Dr. Romain Mauger 1.