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Deconstruction + Reuse Conference 2024: Salvaging the Past, Building a Low-Carbon Future

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Decon + Reuse ‘24 will focus conversations on the theme Salvaging the Past, Building a Low Carbon Future. How … Continue reading Deconstruction + Reuse Conference 2024: Salvaging the Past, Building a Low-Carbon Future

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UN Conference on Water Aims to Rally Support for Ambitious Goals

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Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 20, 2023 The last time the United Nations hosted a conference dedicated to global water supply and sanitation the world looked vastly different. It’s not what happens in three days,” Grafton said about the goals of the conference. Half as many people were alive.

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U.C. Davis Law School to Host “Clean Water Act at 50” Conference

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Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. This conference will provide an important, interdisciplinary perspective on the Clean Water Act and water quality issues, thanks to CELPC’s conference planning partners: U.C.D’s

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Water Groups Lauded a Side Agreement at the Paris Climate Conference. Then It Languished.

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For years, water had been an afterthought at the annual UN climate conferences, even though deficits and surpluses of water are two of the most damaging ways in which people experience a warming planet. The breakthrough happened in 2015, at the landmark conference in Paris. As they do so, it’s instructive to review past outcomes.

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The COP28 Halftime Report

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We’ve reached the midpoint of the annual, two-week international climate conference known as COP (for “conference of parties”), so it’s a good time to reflect on what’s gone down in Dubai. Here are four mid-COP takeaways. That work gets harder if the community is too large.

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Leadership Blog Part 12: Weather Forecast - Visibility limited, extremely variable weather pattern with numerous storm fronts expected in 2021

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I am not sure how many zoom meetings, webinars or casual conversations I have had over the past few weeks in which a question has been raised about what does the election mean for environmental professionals in 2021.

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HotSpots H2O: New Report Urges Policymakers to ‘Wake Up to the Looming Water Crisis’

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Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Globally, the amount of accessible freshwater has decreased by a centimeter annually for the past twenty years. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons.