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AUGUST 1, 2025

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Recycling

Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems. It’s what happens afterward.”

2030

A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

And despite the mounting warnings from experts, India’s big banks appear to be turning a blind eye to climate risk. . Climate scorecard for India’s banks . A recent analysis offers a rare glimpse into how India’s largest commercial banks think about climate change. You’re talking about extremely large banks,” Fernandes says.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”.

Government

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

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Despite green rhetoric from the government, the situation is not likely to improve soon. Indonesia’s government looks at coal as the cheapest energy source, but ignores the fact that continuing to build these coal plants – and in particular mine-mouth plants – clashes with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. “We

Air Pollution

Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

After months of research and interviews with dozens of authorities on five continents, WASH Within Reach unravels the complexity of a global sector that now spends over $20 billion a year and is on its way to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene for everyone on Earth by 2030.

2030

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

billion (USD 15 billion) a year of preferential, government-backed support out of fossil fuels and into clean energy — and much more if initial signatories are successful in convincing their peers to join. . Almost all of Canada’s public finance for oil and gas comes from federal crown corporation Export Development Canada (EDC).

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2023

This week’s hearings are welcome but are only a fraction of the action the federal government must take. For over forty-five years, the Alberta and federal governments have turned a blind eye to the environmental racism happening in the tar sands, allowing disasters like Imperial’s recent leak to take place.

Waste

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

2027

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Renewable Energy

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.

Sustainable Development

Montrose

JULY 21, 2020

Fortunately, the marketplace for climate-related investing, research, and economic collaboration is thriving as government, the private sector, and environmental organizations develop a shared vision to address water scarcity, rising sea levels, increasingly violent natural disasters, and other results of a warming planet.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Key elements of the decision included the creation of a new and independent secretariat and governing board, the designation of the World Bank as interim trustee and fund host for a four-year period, and the approval of the Governing Instrument of the fund which provides factors to be considered in allocating resources.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In fact, solving the issue of ghost gear (abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear) is closely linked with many of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You might be wondering what ghost gear could have to do with climate change.

Climate Change

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This effort will allow financial institutions and market participants to use a shared set of definitions, enhancing the availability of taxonomy-aligned financing and supporting sustainable development in CGT-affiliated markets.

Paris Agreement

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

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. Green bonds can be issued by multilateral development banks (MDB) which issued the first ones. Of course, not all green bonds are necessarily green, or sustainable.

Climate Change

ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The donor community and the government institutions were challenged with the question if these institutions are willing to accept these emerging processes to support local actions.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As a city located at the bottom of two large watersheds and between two tidally influenced rivers, Philadelphia is already vulnerable to flooding from creeks and rivers overtopping their banks.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

Greater efforts must be made Irena says efforts must be made to scale up investments in off-grid renewable energy solutions, as the report also found that the investments fall below the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It is vital that the gap must be plugged to reach universal energy access and improve livelihoods and welfare.

2022

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. However, we’re also not recognizing the way in which formal institutions of the global economy such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, etc.,

Carbon Emissions

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021.

2011

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

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The initiative is unprecedented at government level, with projects driving the bioeconomy largely having been led by environmental organisations and traditional communities at smaller scales. The AMPPF has 55 members, who for the past three years have been selling their fruit pulp to the federal government, which in turn distributes it.

Deforestation

HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Third, these lower incomes and high-risk jobs leave rural areas dependent on government subsidies. As climate change continues to increase the cost of living in rural regions, these areas will continue to be vulnerable if government support cannot account for imbalances in increasing costs. M., & Yarosh, J. Environment?:

Climate Change

Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2019

The Report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) altered perspective of the effect of large dams on the relationship between human development, environmental protection, and human rights. In Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges. 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

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.

2020

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. He also called for a quantum leap in climate action and announced an Acceleration Agenda for governments, the financial sector, and businesses.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MAY 28, 2021

Australia’s government should have conducted a more thorough analysis of the impacts of water withdrawals for the controversial Carmichael coal mine, a court rules. The African Development Bank approves a new water policy that will shape the bank’s lending. Sea Snot’ Clogs Turkey’s Sea of Marmara Shores.

2021

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. Women in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, gather water.

Government

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Three tightly-interconnected decisions make up the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine governing the permissibility of “regulatory exactions”—conditions a land use regulation authority imposes in a land development permit as a purported quid-pro-quo for permit issuance. one deeming it “a blow to sustainable development”.

Natural Resources

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.”

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

should directly and through the World Bank and other institutions help poor and developing nations to modernize agriculture for economic development, environmental, and public health reasons. The 2017 child mortality rate was taken from the 2019 update of World Bank data. [4] and around the world. 7] For 1990 data: U.N.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The federal government declared a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which meant mandatory water cuts for Arizona and Nevada. government took a major step toward revitalizing the nation’s water systems when President Biden signed the $1.2 s Sustainable Development Goals for drinking water, sanitation, and water management slowed. .

2021

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.

Conservation