Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Amy Edwards As we celebrate the 54 th anniversary of Earth Day, it is hard to imagine where we will be 54 years from now. Will we have made the necessary changes to reduce the adverse impacts from climate change? Will we have restored biological diversity? And what about PFAS?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Photo credit: Frontiers, Falling Walls Foundation With climate change being one of the most pressing challenges of our time, Johan Rockström , director of the Potsdam Institute, emphasized that the upcoming COP28 must be one of change. And we need to be engaging with the public because public opinion is so important.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. Tackling the climate crisis requires a multifaceted approach.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

In his four years in office, Donald Trump rolled back essentially every existing federal policy to limit climate change. The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. International January 20, 2021.

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