10 May 2017 – Harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to over-fishing are estimated to be as high as $35 billion according to fisheries experts from the United Nations Trade and
5 May 2017 – De Beers, the diamond unit of Anglo American, will attempt to capture carbon within the rock from which diamonds are extracted in order to offset its
11 May 2017 – While the richest country on Earth contemplates pulling out of the Paris climate agreement to limit global emissions, Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries, is planning
9 May 2017 – While raising the gas tax is still a politically treacherous idea in Washington, lawmakers in state capitals are increasingly coming around to it. Already this year,
3 May 2017 – Femke Groothuis (President of the The Ex’tax Project) argues that a major overhaul of the tax code is required to achieve a circular economy as public
4 May 2017 – In this article Vincent H. Smith (Director, Agricultural Studies Program, American Enterprise Institute) argues that instead of cutting assistance to developing countries to increase defense spending,
10 May 2017 – Tobias Schmidt (Professor, ETH Zurich) and Tyeler Matsuo (Researcher, ETH Zurich) argue that reforming fossil fuel subsidies is more complex than simply reducing the total sum
10 May 2017 – The Canadian federal government’s plan to impose a carbon tax on provinces that do not do it themselves is expected to mimic the Alberta carbon program,
3 May 2017 – Dale Beugin (Executive Director & Research Director, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) discusses how carbon pricing creates incentives for emitters to produce fewer GHG emissions. Further, he analyzes
4 May 2017 – In the lead up to this year’s high-level UN Ocean Conference, a key focus is on efforts to end harmful fisheries subsidies (SDG 14.6). This discussion
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