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In 2022, the United Nations recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. The … corporations are clearly the primary targets of this call to action given their power to affect—and address—climate change, there … is arguably no more central a stakeholder in humanity’s response to climate change than children. Children and youth will …
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conservation features of proposed climate change and clean energy legislation. Finally, this paper discusses energy conservation … under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and in the European Union …This paper provides an overview of U.S. law and policy concerning energy efficiency and conservation. The United States …
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With climate change, continued property development throughout the country, and a growing population, natural … Chapter in the forthcoming The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law: Risk, Recovery, and Redevelopment addresses the existing …
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The right to health insurance is a constitutional right. The right to health insurance is included into the group of … concrete way of fulfilling this constitutional obligation in the Albanian legislation. Law defines the main principles on which … economic and social rights. The implementation of these rights is conditioned to a special law which has to establish the rules …
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averting the multiple threats posed by climate change. The initiative of a Pacific Climate Treaty builds on the momentum of the … Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Although the adoption of … this new international climate change treaty marks a major breakthrough in international diplomacy, the advances made with …
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The policy of sustainable development requires reductions in growth of human populations to promote environmental … and enhance economic development. Economic development, however, relies on human capital, the physical and technical … policies to limit human populations. More particularly, as this article argues, population policies inherently place the …
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A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing …
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the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our …
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Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of … variation in both access to health care and environmental exposure. Variation in access to care is derived from the roll-out of … Community Health Centers (CHCs) across US counties in the 1960s and 1970s, and variation in environmental exposure comes from …
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Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of … variation in both access to health care and environmental exposure. Variation in access to care is derived from the roll-out of … Community Health Centers (CHCs) across US counties in the 1960s and 1970s, and variation in environmental exposure comes from …
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