A new report, released November 3, 2011, by the Higher Education Climate Adaptation Committee highlights the critical role of institutes of higher education in anticipating and adapting to the “new normal” climate change will create. Already, we have seen record-breaking heat, flooding, storms, and drought. As these dramatic climate events become the norm, it is [...]
On 16-19 May 2011, the Third Nobel Laureate Symposium took place in Stockholm, Sweden, gathering some 40 of the world’s most renowned thinkers and experts on global sustainability, including more than twenty Nobel Laureates and several leading policy makers. The Symposium was organized jointly by the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Royal Swedish Academy of [...]
Bolivia will soon pass The Law of Mother Earth, the world’s first law giving all nature equal rights to humans, which will hopefully reduce carbon and control industrial pollution. Bolivia has taken a strong stance on demanding steep carbon emission cuts and challenges other world powers to do the same. Bolivia is feeling the effects of climate change with rising temperatures, [...]
On 15 March 2011, the environment ministers of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway met at a Nordic Ministerial Meeting and discussed, among other issues, international environmental governance (IEG) reform. They stressed the importance of strengthening the environmental pillar within the international negotiations on sustainable development. The Nordic ministers of the environment agreed to support the preparatory [...]
A new Center for Governance and Sustainability will be launched on Monday, 28 March 2011, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Co-directed by Professors Craig Murphy and Maria Ivanova of the McCormack Graduate School Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance, the new center will be ”Linking analytical rigor and policy action in environmental, development and sustainability governance globally through [...]
Professor Daniel Esty, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, has been appointed by the Governor of Connecticut to be the commissioner of the newly-formed Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). The role of the agency is to consolidate Connecticut’s various energy branches, including the Department of Public Utility Control and the Department of [...]
