Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He is echoing the lessons learned during the RISE Conference held on his campus in 2019, where more than five hundred academics, community members and government officials met to discuss the role of universities in disasters. Universities and communities can build a more just, resilient response to disasters.

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

Food prices are hitting all-time highs, pushing hundreds of millions of people deeper into poverty and food insecurity and threatening political stability in regions around the world. Price Shocks, Political Stability, and Food Protectionism. For starters, food price shocks are a political nightmare for weak governments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The increasing threat is influencing South Korean domestic politics, with President Yoon publicly declaring South Korea may consider the option to build its own nuclear weapons. Political purpose – what message is it trying to send? Soon after, Yoon assessed that North Korea had completed preparations for its seventh nuclear test.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

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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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. 369 LAKES .

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. Members of Parliament must put politics aside and pass this important legislation.” The impacts of the energy transition are already being felt across the country. Waiting any longer could be too late for some workers and their families.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. The number of farms in Washington decreased by 7% between 2010 and 2019, according to a 2020 USDA report . Political drivers.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Unfortunately, political courage has never reelected anyone. Globally, June was just over 0.5C

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 19, 2022

The study also found that in 2019, customers without a water meter, who are concentrated in the city’s majority-Black and majority-Latino neighborhoods, paid an average of $500 more per year than metered customers. In context: HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine. On the Radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2019, Brazil was the only South American country that made it into the top 20 carbon dioxide emitting countries list , contributing one percent of the emissions that year, as compared with 14 percent by the United States. It’s past time to hold these companies and our decision makers accountable.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2019, the government released its National Livestock Transformation Plan, which proposed a shift from free-roam herding to confined grazing reserves in areas that have experienced the most violence. There’s a political dimension. It is an endless spiral.”. There’s a religious dimension.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2022

These “mega-watersheds” have redrawn the map, helping cities and farms to grow large and productive, but also becoming political flashpoints with steep environmental costs. “It Just three years ago in 2019, when it was really wet in Northern California, we only diverted [from the Colorado River] in the neighborhood of 500,000 acre feet.”.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Instead, the broken process led to controversy and political gridlock – and a loss of public trust in Canada’s environmental laws and the decisions being made. When the new law was finally introduced in 2019, environmental groups didn’t get everything we wanted, but it did make some important improvements.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

After an unsuccessful COP in Madrid (2019), as a Bangladeshi citizen (a country often referred to as “ground zero” for its climate vulnerability) I had to wait another two years to renegotiate issues that were blocked and left unresolved at COP25.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S.

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

As reported in CNN, a report from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science has considered litigation in respect of climate change from 1990 to May 2019. Legal action on climate change is now a global phenomenon.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2022

Jakarta, Indonesia in 2019. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional. Depending on how effectively they are addressed, water issues could slice 7 percent from Indonesia’s GDP in 2045—or boost it by 3 percent. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

In terms of political will to do something risk tolerant and using a local actor, we also are not going to have anyone there.” — Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. . In 2019, when Indonesia was last inundated with widespread fires, the country experienced economic losses of $5.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. The former policy and political director for the California Environmental Justice Alliance, Katie Valenzuela, critiques the lack of accountability from air districts that prevent communities from creating strong plans.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

And political malpractice is a new category. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%. Black Friday protests at Amazon warehouses in England The BBC | 29 November 2019 A union has held protests outside Amazon warehouses to coincide with the Black Friday sales. So far its reaction has only made matters worse.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 There is broadly political and scientific agreement that temperature increases must be limited to 1.5 Desertification seen south of Sahara, in Africa. By Anders Lorenzen. Uphill battle.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The fund was set up in 2009 as part of Brazil’s national climate policy plan and became inoperative in 2019 when President Bolsonaro stopped preparing annual plans and disbursing resources to support the mitigation projects. The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

Of Conservation and Natural Resources -- Tinicum Conservancy Protects 86 Acres In Little Tinicum Creek Watershed Bucks County [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy Protects 163 Acres Of Forestland, Streams In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Natural Lands Preserves 458-Acre Girl Scout Camp In Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: 458-Acre Girl (..)

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology. But it puts more emphasis on diverse climate responses than on the social and political context. To research advocates, steeped in climate science, it might appear obvious that climate change would be the logic.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%. Black Friday protests at Amazon warehouses in England The BBC | 29 November 2019 A union has held protests outside Amazon warehouses to coincide with the Black Friday sales. So far its reaction has only made matters worse.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

Biotechnology 52

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed.

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