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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. Resilient Melbourne, 2020, p.03. Foster, 2020.Urban 2020, July).

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It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020

Manning Law

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Governments have already invested trillions of dollars to stabilize our economies and protect the most vulnerable.

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Chile Adopts New Climate Change Framework Law: A Paradigm Shift

Law Columbia

It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation. This blog explores these elements and how they imply a paradigm shift in Chilean climate governance, becoming a leader in Latin America for climate action. Governance. There was ample public participation in the process.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Throws Oil and Coal Industries in a Tailspin

Edouard Stenger

Brent crude prices dropped 70 percent since the beginning of 2020. As coal is more expensive than fossil gas, solar and wind, this pandemic is having an averse effect on the American coal industry who will see at least another 20 to 25 percent decline in generation in 2020 from the previous year. Japan has already planned USD 2.2

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China’s would-be parents and their climate concerns

A Greener Life

At the end of 2020, we used an online questionnaire to survey 173 people in China who were concerned or alarmed about climate change. Climate change is and will increasingly exacerbate air pollution, disease outbreaks, drought, flooding, and the melting of glaciers, among other consequences. were positive, 22.5%

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

1 Effects once expected to occur decades in the future are happening now, leading to a new urgency for climate action by governments. Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad and Marcin Pietrzykowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier, 2020), 751. Sustainable Development of Water Resources. Sharma, and Ashish Rai. NRCS Protracts.

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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. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Supreme Court Sent Other Climate Cases Back to Lower Appellate Courts for Review of Other Grounds for Removal.

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