Miljøpolitik og miljøprotokoller

Embark on the Critical Journey: When Decisions Shape Our Environment's DestinyStep into a world where the very fate of our planet hangs in the balance. "The Battle of Priorities: Politics versus The Planet" thrums with the urgency of a crisis that transcends borders, ideologies, and the very fabric of society. This provocative book pierces the heart of the most pressing issue facing humankind today, unveiling the tumultuous relationship between the relentless wheels of politics and the mounting pressures on Earth's environment.Be prepared to confront the facts that define our global climate crisis: the stark statistics that frame our declining planet, the undeniable causes fueling the inferno of change, and the potential consequences that threaten the existence of future generations. Yet, amidst this sobering context, the book dives deeper into the complexities of environmental politics, revealing how legislative battles and biases often overshadow scientific truths and the health of our globe.Rivetingly, explore the intricate interplay of economics and climate policy as the book dissects the affordability of climate policy, the economic impacts of inaction, and the opportunities that could pave a sustainable path forward. Engage in the silent war waged by lobbyists, whose deep pockets and strategic influence can sway climate policy away from the planet's needs to the bottom line of big businesses.Witness through case studies and real-world scenarios, like the contentious Paris Agreement, the high stakes of legislative decisions and international cooperation. "The Battle of Priorities" doesn't just depict a crisis; it offers a lens into the transformative role of public opinion, media, and grassroots movements, arming you with knowledge to become a catalyst for change.Culminating in a powerful and inspiring call to action, this book ignites a spark in every reader, challenging you with a vision where political strategies and environmental imperatives align. For anyone ready to play a part, to step beyond the sidelines and take a stand, "The Battle of Priorities" is your essential guide to understanding and engaging in the fight for the future of our planet.

This manual discusses the process of climate risk screening/climate risk and vulnerability assessment (CRVA) mainstreamed into the project formulation and implementation system of Bangladesh.This manual uses a modified CRVA tool based on the climate risk management framework, which was developed to help assess the climate and disaster risks and vulnerability of public sector development projects in Bangladesh, and to ensure that their designs and subsequent development project proformas address significant climate change and disaster risks.

The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an ecocritical perspective. In the former case, they analyze effects of the present ecological crises (i.e. climate change and pandemics), the emergence and development of environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. In the latter case, they offer readings of American literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries as significant case studies.

China announced the national goal of achieving carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. The great cause of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality requires relentless efforts of the whole society. 100 Q&As on Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality explains in simple language some core and key issues about achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the form of Q&As. This book will enhance the recognition and awareness of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality among officials at all levels, enterprise personnel, and the general public.

Drawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.In 2016, 1,100 mainly minority residents of a low-income housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana, received a letter from the city forcibly evicting them from their homes because a high level of lead was found in the soil under their houses. The residents were given two months to move. Many could not find safe housing nearby. The site was designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site because of the large amount of toxic material on it. More than 1,300 similar sites are located throughout the United States. Over 70 million people live within three miles of one of these sites.Five years later, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General charged three federal agencies--EPA, HUD, and CDC--with causing the lead poisoning of children living in the complex. The EPA, responsible for the cleanup, had been aware of the situation for 35 years. The director of the local housing authority admitted to building the complex over a demolished lead smelter. When health issues arose, the housing authority blamed the residents' sanitary habits rather than its own failure to maintain the structures. The Center for Disease Control and Preventions's testing of blood lead levels was revealed to be faulty. In short, the very agencies that were supposed to protect these people instead neglected, ignored, and blamed them.But this isn't just a story of victimization; it is also about empowerment and community members insisting their voices be heard. Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing records the human side of what happens when the industries responsible for polluting leave, but the residents remain. Those residents tell their stories in their own words--not just what happened to them, but how they acted in response. We should listen, not only for justice, but as a cautionary tale against repeated history.

This is the Final Report of the Forty-fifth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) held in Helsinki, Finland, 29 May - 8 June 2023. This volume includes the ATCM Final Report, the Report of the Committee for Environmental Protection and the Measures, Decisions and Resolutions adopted at this meeting. This edition is written in the Russian language. There are also editions in English, French and Spanish. More information at www.ats.aq

Nuclear power is a dangerous distraction from the urgent task of decarbonizing our energy systems.

A way out of the energy crisis - a green, cheap, democratic energy system is possible

They blazed new trails for people seeking a better world. These are their stories.In 1970, a group of young people chose to take their values to work at a new sort of profession. They formed the Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voice for consumers, taxpayers, open and honest government, and the environment.Working under the renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader, they helped prove it's possible to make real and lasting improvements in the lives of millions of Americans-and make an honest, and modest, living doing it. Now they are sharing their stories to challenge young people today and tomorrow to make the pursuit of positive social change their life's work too.

"This book is an essential reading for students, researchers and non-academic experts dealing with environmental, economic and social science aspects of the circular bioeconomy and with sustainability in general"--

"The disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China's early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state. Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China's history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller's work rectifies this omission, and suggests that in some ways, China's forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions"--

"Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork with herders and local officials in Alasha, an arid region in the far west of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White illustrates the ways in which state environmentalism--through grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement--has transformed the lives of ethnic Mongol pastoralists and their animals. In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation state, this study contributes to debates in political anthropology, animal studies, political ecology, and more-than-human-geography"--

Das Klima auf der Erde hat sich schon immer verändert. Was neu ist: Angsteinflößende Katastrophen-Szenarien.Ja, es ist zwischen 1980 und 2015 weltweit um knapp 1 Grad Celsius wärmer geworden. Wobei: Die globale Erderwärmung hat seit 2015 wieder einmal eine Pause eingelegt.Wenn CO2 wirklich ein Problem ist, müsste die Menschheit das Verbrennen von Kohle, Erdöl und Erdgas insgesamt erheblich reduzieren. Allerdings wird der Energiebedarf der Menschheit derzeit weltweit zu über 80% aus fossilen Brennstoffen gedeckt - und nur zu etwa 5% aus Wind und Sonne. Und der Energiebedarf wird weiter steigen. Kann das weltweit wirklich verändert werden? Wollen die Menschen das überhaupt?Im Pariser Klimaabkommen haben die USA und die EU und einige weitere Industrieländer eine kurzfristige und deutliche Verringerung ihres CO2-Ausstoßes zugesagt. Diese Länder stehen für etwa 25% des weltweiten CO2-Ausstoßes. Rettung der Welt? Oder nur ein regional begrenzter und teurer Feldversuch?Löwe und Katze blicken auf die Themen Klimawandel und Energiewende aus Katzensicht. Was beide nicht mögen: Ideologisch geführte Debatten. Was sie mögen? Ganz einfach: Der Löwe mag Antilopen und die Katze mag Thunfisch in Gelee.

This publication features the rules of procedure for the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), the rules of procedure of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) and other valuable texts for delegates to the ATCM and CEP meeting. It also includes a table with information on the status of countries that participate in the Antarctic Treaty system and a list of Antarctic Meetings. This short book is updated every year in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

A compelling and pragmatic argument: solutions to yesterday's environmental problems reveal today's path forward. We solved planet-threatening problems before, Susan Solomon argues, and we can do it again. Solomon knows firsthand what those solutions entail. She first gained international fame as the leader of an expedition to Antarctica in 1986, making discoveries that were key to healing the damaged ozone layer. She saw a path--from scientific and public awareness to political engagement, international agreement, industry involvement, and effective action. Solomon, an atmospheric scientist and award-winning author, connects this career-defining triumph to the inside stories of other past environmental victories--against ozone depletion, smog, pesticides, and lead--to extract the essential elements of what makes change possible. The path to success begins when an environmental problem becomes both personal and perceptible to the general public. Lawmakers, diplomats, industries, and international agencies respond to popular momentum, and effective change takes place in tandem with consumer pressure when legislation and regulation yield practical solutions. Healing the planet is a long game won not by fear and panic but by the union of public, political, and regulatory pressure. Solvable is a book for anyone who has ever despaired about the climate crisis. As Solomon reminds us, doom and gloom get us nowhere, and idealism will only take us so far. The heroes in these stories range from angry mothers to gang members turned social activists, to upset Long Island birdwatchers to iconoclastic scientists (often women) to brilliant legislative craftsmen. Solomon's authoritative point of view is an inspiration, a reality check, a road map, and a much-needed dose of realism. The problems facing our planet are Solvable. Solomon shows us how.

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, this text offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development policy. International public administrations are thus recognized as partially autonomous actors with their own interests and motivations, assuming the roles of managers, orchestrators, brokers, or attention-seekers. This comprehensive resource provides scholars and practitioners with valuable insight into environmental policymaking and how international public administrations might be transformed to better address the multiple, fundamental challenges of our century. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"A passionate, provocative vision for solving our climate crisis from a young, forward-thinking conservative climate activist. Activists, politicians, and pseudo-experts have led us to believe that there are only two viable approaches to climate change: panicked doomerism or flat-out denial. Conservative climate activist Benji Backer argues that both are failing. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he proposes a new strategy for fixing the climate-while serving the American people instead of working against them. Backer makes the compelling case that conservative values are the key to climate solutions that actually work. In this book, you'll visit the country's most diverse ecosystems and consequential manufacturing hubs-from Utah coal mines and Texas oil fields to Louisiana's wetlands and Rhode Island's off-shore wind farms-witnessing the power of individual entrepreneurship and local problem-solving. You'll learn about the inspiring, under-the-radar efforts to improve Earth's ecosystems that big government Green New Dealers don't want you to know about, like partnerships between resource-rich oil and gas companies and environmental nonprofits to preserve thousands of acres of wetlands. Drawing on the most credible science, a deep understanding of local community needs, and his experience rallying politicians on the Left and Right to take action, Backer offers hope for everyone who cares about the planet and the future of America. Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book is the fresh approach we need to create a sustainable future for America and the world"--

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.

Skillnaden mellan den elektromagnetiska miljö som rådde i början av 1800-talet innan elektricitet och trådlös teknik började användas är som att jämföra mörkret en molnig natt med direkt solljus. Hur har samhället hanterat det när vi samtidigt vet att elektricitet är en avgörande del i kroppens funktioner? EMF handboken tar upp viktiga händelser som Sovjetunionens bestrålning av USA:s ambassad i Moskva med mikrovågor, Världshälsoorganisationens projekt att övertala länder som har lägre gränsvärden att höja dessa, debatten i EU inför beslutet att rekommendera de gränsvärden som vi därefter införde i Sverige. Utgångspunkter för riskutvärderingar som är avgörande för resultatet beskrivs. På nationell nivå har Sverige och Stockholm fått tjäna som exempel. Boken kan ses som en fallstudie hur samhällets hälsoskydd har fungerat. Resultatet är att en tredjedel av befolkningen uppger att de har mer eller mindre besvär de sätter i samband med konstgjorda elektromagnetiska fält.