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Issues January 1, 2022

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Articles Policy & Strategy Sustainability

“Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This is the definition of sustainability provided by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Sustainability was…

Articles Policy & Strategy

No finance, no fix

COP 26 was a tumultuous event. Postponed by a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the meeting in Scotland in November 2021 was highly anticipated and under great pressure to produce results. The United Kingdom held the presidency; MP Alok…

Articles Policy & Strategy

China’s power outages and its double carbon target 3060

Although China is an electricity generation powerhouse, it does experience power shortages from time to time. The most recent power outage happened last summer, resulting in elevators being turned off, stores’ opening hours being shortened, factories having to ration electricity…

Articles Nature & Environment

Is local eating loco?

There are many problems with the agricultural system. For example, the production and distribution of food are responsible for producing many greenhouse gas emissions, leading to climate change. Advocates of locally produced food assert that one way to lower our…

Articles Fossil Fuels Hydrogen Policy & Strategy

Australia’s two-way strategy

COP26 was useful. At least the Australian government showed its true face. Despite a smoky plan, Prime Minister Scott Morrison exposed his country strategy to achieve climate neutrality. “The Australian way” plans to focus on new technologies, but it is…

Articles Nature & Environment Policy & Strategy

An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice

Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has concluded that goals…

Articles Policy & Strategy Renewables

Europe’s islands are leading the charge in the clean energy transition

Carbon dioxide from power generation must be reduced to reach EU climate targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and becoming climate neutral by 2050. European research and innovation are fostering new disruptive technologies and…

Articles Last Exit

Siège Simon

Siège Simon was one of the largest coal mines in the Lorraine region of France. Geological surveys between 1817 and 1849 identified coal deposits. The construction activity began only in 1904, and the mine started operation in 1907. Forty years…

Articles Nature & Environment

‘We’re Taking Action Into Our Own Hands’ — A Community Stands Against a Landfill

Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution. As you drive down East Woodside Avenue in Brookhaven, New York, a green mountain seems to emerge from otherwise flat surroundings. Gulls and turkey vultures circle above…

Articles Nature & Environment Sustainability

Poisoned city: the story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster

Hundreds of tons of carcinogenic agrochemicals, including DDT, were abandoned by the Brazilian government at a factory near an orphanage on the outskirts or Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. The factory had produced the pesticides as part of the government’s…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.