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54th Earth Day: A Wake Up Call to the Planet on the Important Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Addressing the Earth’s Most Pressing Environmental Challenges

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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. In 2019, after the United States had withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates adopted a climate change resolution (No.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planet 

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As Lars Peter Riishøjgaard , director of the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch, said: “We are not treating this as a scientific problem, which is what the text of the Paris Agreement actually says that we should.” Scientific research in these interconnected areas is essential for earth science to guide sustainable development.

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