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Jason Gray Joins the Emmett Institute as Project Director, Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

Legal Planet

In his new role as Project Director of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , Jason will help direct a major sub-national coalition focused on reducing tropical deforestation and advancing inclusive, equitable, low-emissions development at jurisdiction scale. The GCF Task Force includes 38 member states across 10 countries.

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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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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. These criticisms arose over a concern for conserving the Amazon’s carbon sequestration potential and its abundant biodiversity. The deal, notably, strives to create a forum to manage sustainable approaches to agriculture, development, and conservation.

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Carbon-Labeled Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner

Vermont Law

stem from land cover change, such as deforestation, afforestation/reforestation, and wood harvesting. come from deforestation. Deforestation raises the albedo. which results in a land surface that reflects more solar radiation and disrupts the natural temperature cycling provided by forest cover. insulating the earth.

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Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation:

Circle of Blue

The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative. Healthy trout is indicative that the whole system is healthy,” said Randy Claramount, a biologist with Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). It is also dedicated to restoring something to a natural state and maintaining equilibrium. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy. Defining Conservationism.

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Ecological consequences of Spanish colonialism

Environment, Law, and History

The abstract: This article examines the sylvan political ecology of late colonial New Spain and the colonial government's attempt to address deforestation through the Council on Forests, the first body in the kingdom's history dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.