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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wildfires have broken out in Siberia , which is one of the fastest warming parts of the world and where hotter, drier conditions have fueled record-breaking fire seasons including in 2021. But we can and must take actions now to save lives, limit harms and ensure climate action is aligned with sustainable development goals.

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Guest Commentary: New Italian Constitutional Reform: What it Means for Environmental Protection, Future Generations & Climate Litigation

Law Columbia

Second, it could influence decisions by administrative and judicial bodies, for example with regard to the approval of specific projects, such as oil and gas infrastructure and undertakings not in line with the Paris Agreement (see Section 3 below). 179/2019 ). In Neubauer, et al.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. According to figures from the LinkedIn report, in 2021 there was a big jump in the number of job listings requiring green skills, with those ads accounting for half of the total, far more than the global average. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. May 19, 2021). June 3, 2021).

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

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Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Union of Concerned Scientists

Instead, the bank continued to fund nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects into 2021 according to a report last month endorsed by a global consortium of environmental groups. They prop up fossil fuel industry infrastructure as the industry itself buys political influence to blunt and block any unified strategy for a fossil phase-down.