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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068619
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International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice (Executive Summary and Background Paper)
Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014
This background paper to the Climate Legacy Initiative project assesses whether existing international environmental law is adequate to address the challenge of global climate change. It considers both current treaty rules governing climate change and customary principles of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070456
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment : Climate Change Report
Knox, John H. - 2016
This report describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999366
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Change by Necessity : Ecological Limits to Capitalism, Climate Change, and Obstacles to Transition to an Environmentally Sustainable Economy
Barbosa, Luiz C. - 2014
The paper presents a world-systemic treadmill of production analysis exploring the major obstacles to transition to a … unsustainable economy in order to avoid risks and maximize profits. The paper also argues that world-systemic inequalities pose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204732
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Making Economic Development and Job Creation Drivers of Serious Action on Climate Change and Environmental Protection
Dernbach, John C. - 2017
One of the most longstanding narratives in environmental law and politics is the alleged necessity of choosing between development and environment. The narrative, based on conventional development, has a built-in zero-sum game — development or environment. A competing narrative, which has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122870
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The Role of Sustainable Buildings in Climate Change Mitigation
Warnock, Ceri; Warnock, C. G. - 2018
the form of government intervention is necessary. This paper considers examples of law and policy from around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110832
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Delinking International Environmental Law and Climate Change
Carlarne, Cinnamon Piñon - 2015
This Article challenges the existing paradigm in international law that frames global efforts to address climate change as a problem of and for international environmental law. The most recent climate reports tell us that warming is unequivocal and that we are already experiencing the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029779
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Meta-review of Belgium's integrated National Energy and Climate draft Plan 2021-2030
Laes, Erik; Verbruggen, Aviel - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 61 (2019) 1, pp. 57-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799489
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Driving Sustainable Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions : More than Just Cap-&-Trade
Ross, Rhonda L. - 2013
Although “cap and trade” programs for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are often discussed as a viable program for the United States (U.S.), it is unlikely that any such program will be adopted in the near future, but there are other options available that President Obama and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092820