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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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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

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

Law Columbia

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 Prior to the reform, constitutional environmental protection was developed in the case law of the Constitutional Court. The next hearing is scheduled for June 21, 2022 ( A Sud et al.

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Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030

PA Environment Daily

The researchers found that the world could meet the targets for 2030 set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement — with the proviso that the strategies detailed in the accord be fully adopted, a goal that would require concerted action to identify and remove adoption barriers and implement the strategies. degrees Fahrenheit.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

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. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off.

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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.