Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In October 2021, I had the honor of joining world leaders, activists and other representatives from non-governmental organizations in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26). The central message of the conference was abundantly clear: the impacts of climate change are all around us.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A recent issue of Nature Climate Change carried an article by Jonas Meckling & Bentley B. Allan, " The evolution of ideas in global climate policy". The abstract: From carbon pricing to green industrial policy, economic ideas have shaped climate policy.

2017

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Unless you are oblivious to your surroundings, it’s hard to not be aware of the already catastrophic effects climate change is having on our lives. Change your banking as Big Oil loves Big Bank and it’s reciprocal (and disgusting). Each new year is bringing an increase in catastrophes and extreme weather events.

2001

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

Paris Agreement

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.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Practices that destroy nature and cause climate change must be resisted,” Faisal Basri, an economist from the University of Indonesia, told me. “We We as citizens have the right to express concern because the government and banks are ignorant.”. Photo credit: Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace.

Air Pollution

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign. As president of the Central Bank, Marcel promoted the incorporation of climate change risks into financial stability analyses.

Government

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiations at the 28 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, wrapped up early last week. Despite the fact that countries are already suffering losses due to climate change, the road to a Loss and Damage Fund has been relatively long.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2023

trillion litres of toxic waste on the banks of the Athabasca River, which covers a land area more than 2.6 percent owned by ExxonMobil, the Alberta Energy Regulator, and Environment and Climate Change Canada are scheduled to also appear at ENVI on April 20th and 24th. Their negligence has resulted in the accumulation of over 1.4

Waste

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Vanessa Corkal, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development. With this new policy, Canada has taken a vital step forward to align its financial flows with its climate ambition. 39 countries and institutions signed the Glasgow Statement at the UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

Fossil Fuels

Breezometer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Climate Savers enables everyone from startups and investors to conglomerates and trade groups to connect for a wide range of mission-focused purposes including business cooperation, investment, R&D development, and more. BreezoMeter’s Contribution To The Conversation. What Kinds of Topics Will Be Covered Throughout the Week?

Air Pollution

Montrose

JULY 21, 2020

To most effectively mitigate the impact of climate change, business and industry must be part of the solution. Director, Joint Center of Excellence on SDG Implementation; Senior Expert, Sustainable Development and Circular Economy, UN Environment Programme-MAP. Spyros Kouvelis. Julia Bucknall. Saadia Madsbjerg.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The programme has ruled out using funds from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), as the lender has been closing its doors to financing coal-fired plants since 2018. Raising these funds, however, will be the biggest challenge for the coal industry and president Jair Bolsonaro ‘s government.

2027

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Yet, new research by Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth US shows that between 2018 and 2020, G20 governments and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) still spent at least $188 billion on fossil fuels. Richard Florizone, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Fossil Fuels

ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Attendees were surprised and delighted about the announcement made by the United Arab Emirates’ COP28 President Sultan al-Jabert on the first day of COP28 about the launch of a Loss and Damage Fund that will benefit many vulnerable communities across the globe at risk to the effects of climate change.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis. Section 15064.4(2)(b)

Climate Change

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

This short experience opened a world of opportunities to me and I was able to bank on those few months to work again in that industry, with much smaller biodigesters. My first foray in cleantech took place years later, in 2014, when I landed a contract in Colombia for the biogas industry.

2007

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. Bn from the EU budget and on a European Investment Bank lending of €10 Bn. The JTF composes the 1 st pillar. It will rely on €1.5 Source: the author.

Fossil Fuels

Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. In other words, most people are lowering their carbon emissions.

Carbon Emissions

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable development to benefit Brazil and the world. World Bank estimate; UNICEF estimate is 32%), with rural poverty twice as high as urban poverty. solemn commitment.”

Conservation

Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

In Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges, Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal and I looked at how hydropower was crucial for energy security and Pakistan. The World Bank proposed that Pakistan build a dam on the Indus River at Kalabagh, near Mianwali, to meet its future energy requirements in 1984.

2010

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021. Those embracing the analytical connection between the environment and security have since adapted their terminology to speak to a wide spectrum of environmental “threats” including climate change, transboundary pollution, natural disasters, and resource scarcities.

2011

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. Countries cannot close their borders to climate change or biodiversity loss.

2020

Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2019

These concerns about the environment and climate change management impact choices investors and international financing institutions make regarding hydroelectricity projects. By Nadia Ahmad*. The need for energy access has translated into the production of mega dams. appeared first on.

Electricity

Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

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. Governments must enforce stringent regulations, conduct carrying capacity assessments, and invest in infrastructure development.

2006

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

2: Increasing international climate finance This year, at COP29, nations will also have to agree on the quantum of international climate finance that richer nations will provide post-2025 to help lower-income nations cut their heat-trapping emissions and adapt to climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And meanwhile, climate- vulnerable countries are being forced to contend with impacts they have no choice over—impacts that are also undermining sustainable development goals —because of decisions imposed by richer, major polluters. The Biden administration and Congress simply must do more, and faster.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate change and deforestation are reshaping the monsoon season, causing ice on the Tibetan plateau to melt , and affecting freshwater supplies to more than one billion people. Rising global temperatures are changing evaporation patterns and reducing moisture feedback from forests, disrupting downwind rainfall.

Government

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

11th Annual (Virtual) Pittsburgh Sustainability Conference May 6-7 -- PA Master Naturalists Celebrate Arbor Day In Spring Field Notes Newsletter; May 11 - Bringing Nature Home -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests: Wildflower Walk May 2; Foundation Dinner Sept. 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept. Comitta, Rep.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate Change Brings Water Risks. Is Michigan Ready for Climate Change? Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: 2 Comments / November 2, 2021 Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. Climate Change Brings Water Risks.

2021

Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Today, the UN exists to address global problems – be it climate change, energy, education or communication. Indeed, they pointed out that glass innovation is accelerating – be it flexible glass that is slimmer than a bank note, bioactive glass that heals flesh wounds, or glass that can vitrify nuclear waste for long-term storage.

2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2023

Last summer, from June through August, Pakistan endured extended intense rainfall—exacerbated by climate change—that triggered devastating and unprecedented months-long flooding across the country. These floods came soon after the nation had experienced an intense heatwave, made 30 times more likely because of climate change.

Climate Change