The moves essentially ensure that the agreement will go into force by the end of the year, but the specifics of each country’s plans to curb climate change are voluntary.
Source: Paris Climate Deal Passes Milestone as 20 More Nations Sign On
France is taking another big step towards being more environmentally conscious by implementing a controversial new law that will ban plastic cutlery, plates and cups.
Source: France Becomes First Country to Ban Plastic Silverware, Plates and Cups
Putting a price on carbon is an idea whose time has come, with even Big Oil signaling it may drop its long-standing opposition to a carbon tax. But the question is, has it come too late?
Source: Why We Need a Carbon Tax, And Why It Won’t Be Enough by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360
I took Monterey Bay Aquarium’s pledge to vote YES on Proposition 67 on California’s November ballot. A YES vote upholds the statewide ban on single-use plastic retail bags, and keeps more plastic pollution out of our ocean.
Source: Ocean Plastic Pollution at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
The president announced the designation to protect a roughly 5,000-square-mile area the size of Connecticut that sits 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod.
Source: Obama Creates Atlantic Ocean’s First Marine Monument
