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Bookmark or Share- Climate finance: What are debt-for-nature swaps and how can they help ...The first debt-for-nature agreement was signed between US-based environmental non-profit Conservation International and Bolivia in 1987. Since then, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Belize, Barbados and Seychelles, among others, have all entered into similar agreements – with around 140 swaps in total.
- What is the Paris Agreement? Everything you need to knowIndeed, environmental concerns and the threat posed by climate change have been a consistent feature of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. World leaders spent two weeks in Paris during December 2015 hammering out the final wording of an agreement to keep global temperature increases well below 2°C – and if possible 1.5°C ...
- These laws have formed a foundation to fight climate changeA database compiled by the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and the Sabin Center at Columbia Law School puts the cumulative number of global climate laws and policies at 3,145. It stretches back to Japan’s 1947 Disaster Relief Act, which is about as old as that country’s modern constitution and complements other climate-related measures.
- This is how plastic pollution causes climate change | World Economic ForumThe Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) estimates that if trends continue, plastics will account for 20% of oil consumption by 2050. Waste plastic also causes climate change Getting rid of all this plastic also causes problems for the planet.
- Here’s how legal action is helping tackle the climate crisis | World ...In March 2021, Germany’s highest court struck down a climate law requiring 55% emissions by 2030 cuts, ruling it did not do enough to protect citizens’ rights to life and health. In the same year, the French government was ordered to take “immediate and concrete action ” to comply with its climate commitments.
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