Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability. The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.
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Vermont Law
DECEMBER 10, 2019
developed themselves and consolidated their democracies. There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. 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.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Coming out of the summit, climate campaigners accused political leaders of another compact phrase — of being too timid. Even as the global poverty rate rose for the first time in two decades and more people in developing countries were thrust into poverty, utilities proved more resilient than expected. Progress toward the U.N.’s
Global Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Moreover, as suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, renewable energy is much better than fossil fuels exploitation in terms of sustainable development (unlike someone in Moore’s movie suggested).
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Daniel Bodansky.
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