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New Report Highlights the Complex Intersection of Antitrust Law and Sustainability Goals

Law Columbia

While antitrust laws are being wielded for political purposes today, it is also the case that antitrust has always been political. However, competition policy and enforcement are only one component of a broad policy framework that shapes private sector sustainability activities.

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

Environmental Progress

We consider it crucial for Europeans and indeed the world that the Taxonomy is amended to efficiently and effectively encourage the role civilian nuclear energy technology can and must play for sustainable development. The European Commission commissioned a thorough review of nuclear energy by the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

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Perspective | Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water

Circle of Blue

First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability. This will require long-term finance and novel mechanisms to regulate how the public and private sectors work together.

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European Green Deal - What is the Just Transition Mechanism?

Energy and Climate Law

The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. On 14 January 2020, a proposal of regulation establishing the Just Transition Fund was published, detailing the rules that should apply to it. -

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Chile Adopts New Climate Change Framework Law: A Paradigm Shift

Law Columbia

Momentum created by this event created the perfect conditions and political will to move forward with an ambitious bill on Climate Change, submitted to Congress in January, 2020. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25). There was ample public participation in the process.

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Reassessing Climate Justice and Energy Security Between India and Pakistan: The Curious Case of the Kalabagh Dam (Part 2)

Vermont Law

However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments. The Kalabagh dam’s development has been impeded by a number of factors, including project finance, regional tensions, and center-province disputes. The dam was supposed to be completed by the year 1989.

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