Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning) John Light April 11, 2018In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be followed by a series of class-action lawsuits “aga...
These Two New Studies Show that Our Oceans are Basically Doomed (Unless…) John Light March 20, 2017Climate change is beginning to affect the lives of communities around the word. With temperature records being broken, yearly, monthly and daily, severe droughts imperiling food systems and bizarre storms disrupting economies and claiming lives around the worl...
VIDEO: There is more plastic in the sea, than stars in the galaxy Mark Leon Goldberg February 24, 2017Those microbeads in your face wash are bad news.The United Nations warned this week that more than eight million metric tons of plastic end up in oceans each year,"wreaking marine wildlife, fisheries and tourism, and cost at least $8 billion in damage ...
Why There is Much to Celebrate this World Water Week Annie Feighery August 28, 2012Yesterday, the 2012 World Water Week began. This annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden is the planet’s largest gathering of water-related scientists, managers, NGO leaders, and multilateral organizations. This year’s conference lies in the shadow of the coming due 2015 due date for the Millennium Development Goals related to water and sanitation.
Mekong Delta Blues: How a Dam Project in Laos Could Have Serious International Repercussions Faine Greenwood December 13, 2011A proposed Dam in Laos has the potential to cause major problems downstream.
Sustainable Energy for All Penelope Chester September 23, 2011On September 21, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new initiative - "Sustainable Energy for All". One of the initiative's main goals is to ensure universal access to sustainable energy by 2030.
Will Scientists’ Call For Climate Action Fall on Negotiators’ Deaf Ears? Corbin Hiar September 30, 2010With only days remaining until diplomats are due to arrive in Tianjin for the final round of climate negotiations before the Cancun summit, scientists have provided a grim reminder of how little progress governments have made in addressing the threat of climate change.
American Consumers Aren’t Buying Climate Action Corbin Hiar September 23, 2010A few high-profile American executives shared their perspectives on sustainable business. They offered a first-hand view of government shortcomings, the powers and limitations of private sector action, and the role US citizens have played in stymieing the global climate talks.
Dancing in the Dark: The Danger of Letting Business Lead on Climate Protection Corbin Hiar September 22, 2010In a candid session on energy and the environment at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, the world’s lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres explained why her organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), had made so little progress in establishing international climate protection regulations.
