Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When will government stand up with action for Indigenous rights in this country?” Background information: In May 2022, Imperial Oil workers discovered tailings fluid leaking offsite from the company’s Kearl oil sands mine onto nearby land. The Imperial Oil toxic tailings leaks are 13 kilometres from my family’s trapline.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

For example, Law 1931 of 2018 establishes clear rules that govern public and private entities’ actions regarding climate change, as well as the cooperation between national, regional and local authorities in implementing climate change adaptation measures and GHG emissions’ mitigation action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies have also started to develop new, more recyclable blade technologies which continue to guarantee strength while facilitating end-of-life processing. For example, Siemens Gamesa installed the first ever recyclable wind turbine blade at an offshore wind farm in Germany in July 2022. It employs a new type of blade epoxy resin.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

announced the nine winners of the 2022 Champions of the PA Wilds Awards. The winners will be honored at the 2022 PA Wilds Dinner & Awards , to be held on Thursday, July 28. The 2022 Champions are a slate of outstanding community members and organizations that make an enormous contribution to the vitality of our region.

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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 We applaud the Government of Canada for showing much-needed climate leadership today.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2022

The appreciation of these benefits is matched by a growing need for outdoor recreation as a sector (and the industry that underlies it) to be represented within government to grow and fully prosper.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

WHEN: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 from 7 p.m. All event proceeds will go to support the work of Environmental Defence Canada in mobilizing government, industry and communities for ambitious climate action. Join us for an interactive conversation to answer your questions and concerns about the pathway to a climate-safe future!

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On August 31, the Allegheny County Office of Sustainability issued the 2022 Allegheny County Sustainability Report that highlights this past year’s efforts aimed at improving the county’s overall sustainability. When I first took office, our efforts around sustainability consisted of one person in the manager’s office.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation. The process gave legitimacy to the bill and expedited its way through Congress, which approved the bill on March 9th, 2022.

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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). This is the reality, despite global pledges to provide more funding to governments, and a commitment to contribute $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Highlights From Summit Agenda Here are just some of the presentations on the agenda for the Sustainability Summit-- October 3 -- 9:00: Welcome - Gov. Posted: September 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss accessibility to clean water and sanitation as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 through the lens of Rachel’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change. However, I do not believe it is too late to address these large issues.

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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 Notably, Article 6 mandates that all public policies must promote sustainable development while reconciling the protection of the environment, economic development and social progress.

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Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2022

Jeremy Millard is the director of the non-profit Third Millennium Governance consultancy in Denmark. He is a social scientist and geographer currently working on governance models for the new era of uncertainty and crises, especially for city-region systems in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Already this year, we have seen the leading edge of the 2022 danger season. Here is just a snapshot of what we’ve seen elsewhere around the world in 2022 so far: An early, intense heatwave in India and Pakistan starting in March, with temperatures reaching as high as 122 F, has caused at least 90 deaths and untold suffering.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. In 2020, developed countries contributed only US$ 83.3 OECD (2022).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Our goal is to engage the speakers in conversations with each other and with our students about findings from the IPCC assessment, why they matter and how they can be used to mobilize more ambitious and equitable actions on climate change,” said Leary, who also leads Dickinson’s Center for Sustainability Education.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Multiple reproductive concerns about climate change In January 2023, the China Meteorological Administration said that the climate in China during 2022 was clearly anomalous, with numerous extreme weather events. The exposed bed of the Yangtze River in Wuhan during the record-breaking summer heatwave in 2022.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization predict a 50:50 chance at least one year between 2022 and 2026 will exceed 1.5°C The latest IPCC report assesses global sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the progress of strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change.

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Acoel

APRIL 14, 2023

For those of you unfamiliar with the IUCN, it is a fairly unique international NGO with an extensive interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral membership base that includes governments, other NGOs, practitioners, academics, and the like.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

By Daniela Quintero Díaz Government seeks to accelerate offshore projects with an upcoming auction, as experts say regulations and safeguards still need fine-tuning. A national offshore wind power roadmap was published in May 2022, detailing its potential and challenges in the medium and long term. Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Scientific research in these interconnected areas is essential for earth science to guide sustainable development. That’s the combination – the beauty – of quantifying the safe boundaries, translating them to policy and governance, and accelerating transformation pathways.”

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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. Therefore, these are the things we have to mobilize for and make so much noise that governments cannot avoid it.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

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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

There’s a risk that companies or governments might co-opt academics, and proving and battling corruption is extremely difficult and dangerous. In Peru, a group of young people sued the government for failing to formulate and execute a national policy and plan to curb deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon ( Álvarez et al.

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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. Only if we help, shall all be saved. ” - Jane Goodall , conservationist Ecotourism holds immense potential as a tool for conservation, community empowerment, and sustainable development.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Of course, the COP also decides where future meetings will be held.

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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. Governments have already invested trillions of dollars to stabilize our economies and protect the most vulnerable. This year, we cannot take to the beaches, forests and streets.

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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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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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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.

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Brag

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Foster just and equitable clean energy deployment through grassroots innovation activities focused on community-centric networks and bottom-up solutions for sustainable development based on the needs of the communities involved. EST) on February 25, 2022 , with winner announcements in March 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

DEP launched the program in 2019-20 to provide free technical assistance and personnel help to local governments in Pennsylvania that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

Here are 64 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about 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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