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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 A similar measure stalled earlier this year due to opposition from conservatives on the state’s Natural Resources Board. billion every year for maintaining roads, bridges, culverts, and rail tracks. billion annually.

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What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021

Circle of Blue

Randy Claramunt is a biologist with Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions

Vermont Law

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Hill, et al., 11, 2022); see generally G.

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The EU-MERCOSUR Deal: A Litmus Test for Resolving the Growing Paradox of Development and Conservation

Vermont Law

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. As a country struggling with population growth and the need to develop into a ‘modern’ state, Brazil faces the same challenges as other developing nations: management of its natural resources and balancing this with economic and development goals.

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Major developments for global climate litigation: the Human Rights Council recognizes the right to a healthy environment and the Committee on the Rights of the Child publishes its decision in an international youth climate case

Law Columbia

While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. The claimants argued that the States violated the Convention on the Rights of the Child and their rights to life, health, and culture, by not taking effective actions to reduce their carbon emissions.

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Supreme Court of Canada declares Trudeau’s Carbon Pricing Plan Constitutional

Manning Law

Climate change has proved to be a political “hot potato” in large part because of those who would deny that climate change is real. They also argued that they have constitutional jurisdiction over natural resources. The Federal Carbon Pricing Scheme Is Not A Tax. Climate Change Is Real.