DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In October of this year, the captain of that supply ship, Giuseppe Sotgiu, paid a heavy price for his decision: an Italian judge sentenced him to a year in prison for violating humanitarian law. Those captains who, unlike Sotgiu, abide by humanitarian law and decide to bring the migrants to Europe sometimes face dire consequences.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

The plaintiffs in Montana, organized by a nonprofit law firm called Our Children’s Trust , are joining a growing cadre of citizens suing their governments for their failure to act on climate change. United States, also organized by Our Children’s Trust, will soon become the second.) A federal case, Juliana v.

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TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Campaigners estimate that more than 30,000 elephants were killed in Africa last year for their ivory and 1,000 rhinos killed in South Africa alone, an increase of some 5,000%. The London meeting is evidence of a growing political will among countries to finally take concerted action on the issue.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

While IRENA has not looked into the latest statistics for institutional investors, the organization acknowledged an overall positive trend for renewable energy investment. IRENA noted that the general trend over the last decade is that these investments are growing, albeit slowly and from a low base.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2019

. “The cruelty involved in shooting these burros and leaving them to die warrants prosecution to the fullest extent of the law,” BLM’s Deputy Director for Policy and Programs William Perry Pendley said in a statement Wednesday.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Spain, Ireland, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa have already established such commissions, or something similar, to provide insight into what rapid decarbonisation will mean for society and the economy.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. particulate matter are designated as “unhealthy.”

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“People buy it just like they buy cocoa from West Africa: It has that special profile that they’re looking for. Bonanni is no stranger to this type of exercise, having investigated coffee and cocoa supply chains from Mexico to Madagascar and throughout West Africa. “It’s a cash product.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As in prior years, the fossil fuel industry is using the annual climate summit to trumpet voluntary, non-binding, and often deeply ineffectual initiatives aimed at distracting from the urgent need for laws and policies that will keep fossil fuels in the ground. Perhaps no continent demonstrates this better than Africa.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. In rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia, many places in Africa, all around the world, people eat many kinds of insects.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. This is a meritless case, and we await the court’s decision,” said Nick Paulocci, director of public affairs and press secretary of the NYC Law Department.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive use of antibiotics on farms is a major driver of AMR in people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). If that were to be applied – and it is the law, so it should be applied – then that would mean changes to animal husbandry practices in the EU. But we’re not seeing that in most countries.”

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This debate was organized around five themes: Leadership in Canada and the world / Polarization, human rights and immigration / Indigenous issues / affordability and income security / environment and energy. -- Hon. The UN is a dysfunctional organization, and we must be able to fight for our country.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 12, 2021

According to Remi D’Annunzio, REDD+ National Forest Monitoring Coordinator for Africa, UN-FAO, “Anywhere in the Central African forest where degradation is happening – we were missing a substantial amount of even easy to detect degradation with anything else other than the Planet-NICFI data.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Meanwhile, Shell would commission British scientist James Lovelock — later a renowned proponent of the “Gaia Theory” of earth as a self-regulating organism — to investigate the possible global consequences of pollution from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo, a GreenBiz 30 Under 30 recipient, is determined to make sports and organizations more sustainable. She was appointed as the first Environmental Sustainability Manager at New York Road Runners, a non-profit running organization whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. residential sector.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

This has made it much harder to redistribute wealth in fair ways through minimum wage laws or taxation structures. But that changed pretty quickly at the very end of the 18th and into the early 19th century, and one of the reasons was that ordinary people organized a consumer boycott of sugar. It’s directly related to injustice.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

Nor are they forcibly held back by legal segregation or Jim Crow laws. Locke, Aristotle, and Newton have had no equivalents in Africa or Asia, and the advancements in those areas have been almost exclusively due to Western influence,” he wrote in a 1999 piece for the Duke Review. “To To see the results, just compare New York to Chad.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . LinkedIn | Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

an organization fully funded by the AAR), one slide cited the benefits of ECP braking, including “controlled brake application through the train” and “shorter stop distances,” among other benefits. We therefore are not the right organization to take on the task of performing the testing.”

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 22, 2020

Dictator’s Rules Keep the winning coalition as small as possible: you will need fewer people to stay in power, have higher control over them, and you will save on graft (smaller number also mean it easier for them to organize a putsch however). However, freedoms also pose a threat as they make it easier for the population to organize revolts.

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