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Small island nations to testify before international tribunal seeking advice on obligations to reduce marine pollution

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Island nations are facing threatening circumstances with respect to food, energy and infrastructure from sea-level rise and climate change. Island nations are facing threatening circumstances with respect to food, energy and infrastructure from sea-level rise and climate change. Other members include Niue, Palau, St.

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Chile’s Lithium Boom: A Green Revolution or Environmental Ruin?

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Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. At stake is a fundamental question: is Chile genuinely building a sustainable future, or simply rebranding extractivism in green terms?

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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

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As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Not so in the United States.

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Australia: Australia Introduces The Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 - Jones Day

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Despite plentiful natural resources and a healthy domestic demand for energy, Australia's offshore renewable energy sector has lagged behind comparable jurisdictions.

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9 GHRM Best Practices to Achieve Success in Environmental Initiatives

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Wildfires have been blazing elsewhere in Italy , as well as in France , Greece , Australia , California – can anyone remember when there wasn’t a relentless, uncontrollable wildfire somewhere? Green human resource management puts onus on HR professionals to support a company’s sustainability goals. Let’s get to work!

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Oil pump, ( Creative Commons ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. FEATURED CASE. WildEarth Guardians v.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. How we’re unique: While other products are descriptive in nature, we are building the first truly prescriptive set of legal analytics products. Demo video: Video on page: [link].