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Environmental Defence Experts React to the 2024 Ontario Budget

Enviromental Defense

Keith Brooks, Programs Director: This budget once again shows that the Ontario government doesn’t take climate change seriously and is uninterested in being truthful when it comes to the costs of climate change and climate policies.

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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

Legal Planet

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. A weather balloon.

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“We Can’t Have Land Back Without Water Back”

Circle of Blue

The combined effects of the Cochiti Dam upstream and climate change have cut the river’s flow to a fraction of what it once was, and the overflowing banks from her father’s childhood are bone dry. government to allow Indigenous people to continue stewarding the lands as they did before colonization. Something has to change.”.

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The European Court of Human Rights’ April 9 Climate Rulings and the Future (Thereof)

Law Columbia

(Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images) Across Europe, activists of all ages have taken to the streets to pressure their governments to take effective action against climate change. As domestic decision-makers failed them, they knocked at Strasbourg’s door.

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Incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration Names Members Of Environment/Energy Transition Advisory Committee

PA Environment Daily

Environment Members -- Katie Blume , Political & Legislative Director, Conservation Voters of PA. -- Romulo Diaz , Ret. Seif, Former Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 3 -- Ezra P.

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Three River Communities, Worlds Apart, Tell Stories of Indigeneity in the Age of the Anthropocene

Circle of Blue

Everyone north of the Dry River was urged by the government to evacuate, though political distrust and an intimate connection with their homes made such a move difficult. The destruction that remains months after the first eruption is evidence, residents say, of government failure. . Many remained as long as they could.

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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

A Greener Life

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. billion in research development and demonstration for CDR.

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