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The Climate Overshoot Commission Releases its Report

Legal Planet

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. Current and coming advances in carbon-free technology will help, of course. This report comes in conjunction with the U.N.

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RePlanet Nederland letter to the EU Commission about the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

The analyses did not reveal any science-based evidence that nuclear energy does more harm to human health or to the environment than other electricity production technologies already included in the Taxonomy as activities. The result is an almost 400-page report on the topic. Our review is intended to help you argue your case.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.” Without this, you will not access the basic technological knowledge you need for either climate mitigation or adaptation.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. What are the limitations of renewable technologies? How green are renewables? How green are renewables?

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European Green Deal - What is the Just Transition Mechanism?

Energy and Climate Law

In a nutshell, the European Commission acknowledges that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy will have economic and social impacts, especially on regions that rely on fossil fuels extraction and treatment (e.g. The focus is therefore mostly, as expected, on socio-economic development or alleviation.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

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.”