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EU Puts Paris Climate Agreement Over the Top - Now What?

October 5, 2016 Expert BlogBrendan Guy

From Blueprint to Reality

October 5, 2016 Expert BlogJake Schmidt

India Joins the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

October 5, 2016 Expert BlogSameer Kwatra

On the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, India formally joined the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. India’s decision to join signals the commitment to fighting one of the greatest challenges of our time. With India joining, the world is days…

What It Took to Create the Atlantic’s First Marine National Monument

October 4, 2016 NRDC in ActionConnecticut, Massachusetts, United StatesMelissa Denchak

After years of work by NRDC and its partners, about 5,000 square miles of ocean—with massive canyons, majestic underwater mountains, and more than 1,000 species—have received permanent protection.

Tech Support: The Software Developer Who’s Fighting Food Waste

October 4, 2016 DispatchNew York CityJolene Edgar

Jeff Schacher knew that restaurants waste food. And that people are hungry. So he invented a tech-savvy way to rescue millions of meals.

Forward Motion on Climate Change & Clean Energy in Virginia

October 4, 2016 Expert BlogVirginiaWalton Shepherd

Court Watch: Still Fighting for Safe Water in Flint

October 4, 2016 Expert BlogAnjali Waikar

Bipartisan Bill Offers Solutions for Flood-Prone Properties

October 4, 2016 Expert BlogRob Moore

Bipartisan legislation introduced last week by Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act (H.R. 6196), would take a much needed step toward confronting the problem of continually subsidizing the rebuilding of flood-prone properties…

Questioning the "Eco-Friendly" Industrial Farm

October 3, 2016 Expert BlogDavid Wallinga, MD

Why trust industrial farms to someday do what agroecological may already know how to do better?

Federal Agency: Petcoke Facility Health Hazard to Residents

October 3, 2016 Expert BlogMeleah Geertsma

Sharks and Rays Get New Protections Under International Wildlife Trade Treaty

October 3, 2016 Press Release

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) today approved new international protections for thresher sharks, silky sharks and mobula rays by moving the species to Appendix II at the 17th Conference of…

Floods Threaten the Mental Health of Children

October 3, 2016 Expert BlogJuanita Constible

Green Finance Approaches and Criteria: The G20 and China

October 3, 2016 Expert BlogBarbara Finamore, Yan Wang

At the close of the 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou last month, the G20’s Green Finance Study Group (GFSG), a group of countries and relevant international institutions chaired by China and the UK with support from the United Nations Environment…

World Leaders Vote to Close Domestic Ivory Markets

October 2, 2016 Press Release

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — In an effort to curb the slaughter of African elephants, parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) today recommended that countries with domestic ivory markets that contribute to elephant poaching or the…

Green Impact Report: Galloper Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

October 1, 2016 Resource

UK Green Investment Bank plc (“GIB”) has assessed the Green Impact of Galloper Offshore Wind Farm (the “Project”) based on project data provided by its independent advisers, and the results of that assessment are summarised in this report. The report…