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 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.

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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.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. ” The European Money and Finance Forum, SUERF Policy Note Issue.

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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.

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Montrose

JULY 21, 2020

Director, Joint Center of Excellence on SDG Implementation; Senior Expert, Sustainable Development and Circular Economy, UN Environment Programme-MAP. Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank. Spyros Kouvelis. Julia Bucknall. Saadia Madsbjerg. Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation.

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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.

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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.

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Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2022

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. Other questions covered reliance on food banks and free food, growing own food and stocking-up on food.

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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.

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Frontiers

APRIL 4, 2023

This year, the blog is highlighting the contributions these women make to the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. Frontiers Sustainability Network and doughnut economics A catalyst for the Sustainability Network’s February Fashion Detox was a guest speaker event held at the beginning of the year.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By regulation in Pennsylvania, the floodway, in areas that do not have a detailed floodplain mapping is assumed, absent evidence to the contrary, to extend 50 feet back from the top of bank on both sides of the stream. Floodplains perform a variety of functions that are valuable to humans and fish and wildlife species.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Vanessa Corkal, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development. In addition, Canada must start using our public finance to support a worker- and community-led just transition away from oil and gas in Canada.”. The government is sending a clear signal: we cannot continue to pour fuel on the fire.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Climate Savers Week focuses on twelve prominent fields connected to global climate change and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: Manufacturing - Promote sustainable, environmentally friendly development of economic growth and employment through resilient infrastructure that fosters innovation and improves resource efficiency.

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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.

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ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Donors in the room, primarily development banks, indicated that many constraints needed to be overcome to match funding with local communities although it was observed that radical changes have taken place already in the past few decades.

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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.

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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.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Installed in already efficient buildings that have received the adequate amounts of insulation and weatherization, heat pumps allow homes, offices and hospitals (and any other kind of buildings) to heat and cool without breaking the bank.

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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.”

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

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. Professor Ahmad’s research explores the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and sustainable development and draws on international investment law and corporate social responsibility.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

As you know, this blog post is linked to two Sustainable Development Goals, in your past work, you have criticized the SDGs specifically in relation to South Asia, that they they don’t go far enough being only aimed at improving the living conditions of low-income countries without any sort of real, transformational economic policy.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

billion to these communities annually over the same timeframe (Saha, Leslie-Bole and Cyrs 2021). Image 2: Revegetation project along the banks of Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado (THK Associates, Inc.) Science and Policy for Sustainable Development , 58 (5), 4–23. M., & Yarosh, J. Environment?:

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2019

The beneficiaries of the dam construction projects are the people who benefit from reliable electricity, but also the development banks and private lending institutions and construction firms that handle and provide the finance and construction of the dams. The need for energy access has translated into the production of mega dams.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021. Is this logic suitable for addressing shared environmental challenges that instead require cross-border cooperation, long-term thinking, and respect and recognition for humans and nature?

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This stocking rate of Par cattle is very low and would need to be dramatically improved to avoid it having to grow every year by land expansion, says Srgio Leito, founder and executive director of the Escolhas Institute, which carries out studies focused on sustainable development.

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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.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

by developing VMT-based thresholds for significance or by creating VMT mitigation banks to offset VMT increases from new development). While many of the revisions are effective immediately, the new VMT methodology will not be mandatory until July 1, 2020 to give agencies time to prepare for the new analysis (e.g.,

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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.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 28, 2021

The African Development Bank approves a new water policy that will shape the bank’s lending. The African Development Bank approved a new water policy that will shape the bank’s lending programs. Study shows fish farms in British Columbia can transmit a virus to wild salmon. It’s like night and day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Reforming international multilateral lending architecture to be fairer and more aligned with climate and sustainable development objectives is also critical. Innovative sources of funding—such as pollution taxes and wealth taxes—should be part of the discussion. Congress, too, must step up since it holds the power of the purse.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

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PA Environment Daily

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