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

A Greener Life

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”.

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What should cities of the future look like?

Our Environment

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. link] content/uploads/2019/09/ Climate-Emergency- Urban-Opportunity-report.pdf.

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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets

Legal Planet

Voluntary carbon markets do not have that same kind of legal obligation. This is the reality, despite global pledges to provide more funding to governments, and a commitment to contribute $1.7 billion directly to Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

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Analysis: What’s at stake for India and South Asia at COP26?

A Greener Life

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. The country’s pledges and carbon-reduction policies have recently been deemed ‘ highly insufficient ’ by the thinktank Climate Action Tracker, which analyses countries’ climate pledges against the global 1.5C Photo credit: Pacific Press Media Production Corp.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. Gleick falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If

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The Year in Water, 2021

Circle of Blue

The federal government declared a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which meant mandatory water cuts for Arizona and Nevada. 1 Comment / March 2, 2021 Navajo Generating Station shut down in 2019 and is now being dismantled. government took a major step toward revitalizing the nation’s water systems when President Biden signed the $1.2

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. In the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s 2019 issuance of a presidential permit for the U.S.-Canada Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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