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Global Cancer Prevention : An Important Pathway to Global Health and Development
Beaglehole, Robert; Bonita, Ruth; Magnusson, Roger - 2011
Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year. Around one third of cancers are attributable to a small number of preventable risk factors – including smoking and the harmful consumption of alcohol – for which effective...
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Developing a Global Soil Regime
Boer, Ben; Hannam, Ian - 2015
and climate change. The effects of the increase in human population on the world, especially in terms of the decline in …
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Domestic and International Carbon Offsets under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme : What Prospects?
Lyster, Rosemary - 2013
This article assesses the prospects for liable entities under Australia’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) to rely on international and domestic offset credits. This is crucially important for liable entities as, under the CPRS, they must surrender a permit for every tonne of...
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Cooling Infrastructure, Cooling Security, and a Warming World
Dana, David A. - 2023
cooling infrastructure currently in place in the United States (and elsewhere) was developed for a world before climate change … and the increase in intensity and geographic scope of heat waves. That infrastructure must be adapted to a world where … challenges of adapting cooling infrastructure to a warming world is important for U.S. national security, among other goals …
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Ocean Acidification
Stephens, Tim - 2016
Ocean acidification, the changing chemistry of the oceans as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is likely to transform many aspects of the global marine environment by mid century, with severe impacts expected for calcifying organisms. This chapter examines how ocean acidification...
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What Rough Beast? Copenhagen and Creating a Successor Agreement to the Kyoto Protocol
Nagtzaam, Gerry - 2011
This paper will use the criteria outlined in Lavanya Rajamani's article 'Addressing the "Post Kyoto" Stress Disorder: Reflections on the Emerging Legal Architecture of the Climate Regime', as a template to determine how successful the Copenhagen Meeting was in achieving its stated goals. Thus,...
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The CAFO Hothouse : Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture and the Law
Cassuto, David N. - 2014
The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...
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Global Warming : A Second Coming for International Law?
Badrinarayana, Deepa - 2010
Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...
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Patent Law, HIPPO, and the Biodiversity Crisis
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014
Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to the survival and prosperity of humanity, supplying such vital amenities as food, clothing, shelter, natural biochemicals useful in medicine, industry, and agriculture, and...
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Chasing Down the Climate Change Footprint of the Public and Private Sectors : Forces Converge - Part II
Lyster, Rosemary - 2014
around the world, with the imprimatur of the Kyoto Protocol, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions trading … Emissions Trading Scheme and the two different schemes proposed for Australia. The state of the world carbon market … carbon trading. The liquidity and efficiency of the world carbon market will depend to a large extent on the ability to link …
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