Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 billion in fossil financing towards accelerating the urgent implementation of climate goals.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B First, it provides solid legal ground for public bodies in Italy to steer economic activities to pursue environmental (and climate) objectives. This reform bears thus a two-fold implication.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

By Fu Xiyao Worries about climate change are affecting the family planning decisions of young Chinese. “If I chose to leave my hometown but… climate change is a global issue. When the nest is upset, no egg is left intact.” – Chen Feng, 40, father of one “[Climate change] will only make [raising children] harder.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Internationally known climate scientists, ecologists, agronomists, economists, policymakers and other experts on climate change risks and responses will gather at Dickinson College in Cumberland County for a three-day symposium featuring authors of the newest reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Tom Wolf announced the PA GreenGov Council will host the Commonwealth’s first-ever Sustainability Summit. “We We have a responsibility to future generations that requires us to act now to protect our environment and keep Pennsylvanians safe from the dangers of climate change,” said Gov.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We stand in solidarity with the impacted nations in calling on the federal government and the government of Alberta to put a stop to the destruction in the tar sands and hold oil companies accountable for cleaning up their toxic waste. million litres of toxic tailings spilling into the environment.

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Acoel

APRIL 14, 2023

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Scott Fulton One of my roles as ELI’s International Envoy is serving on the Steering Committee of the new Climate Crisis Commission established by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Water, however, is not just a casualty but also a driver of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The event will feature thought-provoking conversations from leaders, artists and change-makers who are steering the energy transition in Canada. Join us for an interactive conversation to answer your questions and concerns about the pathway to a climate-safe future! WHEN: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 from 7 p.m.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change. But beyond those functions, the outer ring lacks the resources, authority, capabilities – and for that matter, the legitimacy – to make large-scale social change. Then things move on.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Canada notably signed on to COP24’s Just Transition Silesa Declaration and COP26’s Just Transition Declaration , yet in April 2022 the Commissioner on the Environment and Sustainable Development in the Office of the Auditor General found that “The federal government was not prepared to support a just transition to a low-carbon economy”.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The World Resources Institute’s Forest Pulse report found that in 2022, emissions from tropical deforestation were equivalent to the annual emissions of India (currently the world’s third largest emitting country). So, to address global climate change, we must better protect tropical forests.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. Take, let’s say, a border carbon tax.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Photo credit: Frontiers, Falling Walls Foundation With climate change being one of the most pressing challenges of our time, Johan Rockström , director of the Potsdam Institute, emphasized that the upcoming COP28 must be one of change. And we need to be engaging with the public because public opinion is so important.”

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With the largest rainforest in the world, the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and the most significant amount of arable land where food is produced, the importance of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against climate change is undeniable. AIDA will launch the Platform on February 16, 2022.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

Owing to the commercial pressures but lacking resources, pseudo-ecotourism emerged, a modified concept that lacks the key sustainability ingredient. In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

From beach clean-ups to mass tree-planting to marches, individuals, communities and governments have come out to stand shoulder-to-shoulder for our planet. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. Governments have already invested trillions of dollars to stabilize our economies and protect the most vulnerable.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. as it relates to EQIP.

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Law Columbia

MAY 15, 2024

Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment jointly published a new report: Recommendations to Update the FTC and DOJ’s Guidelines for Collaboration Among Competitors.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 13, 2022

On March 2, 2022, the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) agreed on a resolution under the name “End plastic pollution: Towards an internationally legally binding instrument.” The committee will begin its work in 2022, with the ambition of completing the draft of the legally binding instrument by the end of 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

“The proactive work that Reading officials and volunteers are doing to cut the city’s energy use and transition the city to clean renewable energy will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help lessen the impacts of climate change for their community,” said Secretary McDonnell. “As

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

“The proactive work that Reading officials and volunteers are doing to cut the city’s energy use and transition the city to clean renewable energy will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help lessen the impacts of climate change for their community,” said Secretary McDonnell. “As

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Brag

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize acknowledges that underserved populations have been and continue to be more susceptible to the negative impact of climate change, global warming, and pollution. Enable the development of replicable clean energy transitions that deliver just and equitable benefits to disadvantaged communities.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a CRS report, updated on September 19, 2022, entitled The Bioeconomy: A Primer. Many countries see a connection between the bioeconomy and a circular economy as a means to address a number of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Bergeson and Carla N. bioeconomy. bioeconomy.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

As water crises beset North America, all eyes are on the Great Lakes and the leaders, systems, and rules that govern them. lawmakers are pushing to create a new agency dedicated to sustainable development in the Great Lakes region. The post FRESH, April 5, 2022: U.S. Find all the work here.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance. This was 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2022

Budget $2 Trillion A Year By The End Of This Century -- The Guardian: Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Report: Dire Warning On Climate Change ‘Is Being Ignored’ Amid War, Economic Turmoil -- Financial Times: Landmark U.N. Report -- Bloomberg Green: Money Pouring Into Fossil Fuels Risks Climate Disaster, U.N.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I feel like climate change is going to have to get worse before it gets better. Climate change has been a big, scary, looming problem for basically the entirety of my life; I cannot remember a time when it was not at least a background concern. –Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities Rural voices are increasingly lamented as forgotten and unacknowledged.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. Furthermore, the Bolsonaro administration bluntly disregarded Brazil’s obligations established in climate agreements.

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ESA

MARCH 28, 2022

Request proposes increasing non-defense discretionary spending and spending on climate and clean energy across the government. President Joe Biden released the federal government budget request today, March 28. Now, House appropriators will draft budget bills for FY 2023, which starts October 2022. Executive Branch.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S. Geological Survey’s National Climate Adaptation Science Center and the regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers. Federal Register opportunities.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

House passes stop-gap federal government funding measure, fate in the Senate remains unclear. Appropriations: House Democrats approved a stop-gap spending measure to keep the government open after fiscal year ends Sept. NDAA : The full House of Representatives debated the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act ( H.R.

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