France’s strategy promotes measures to combat carbon leakage, which may include the introduction of carbon pricing at EU borders under the EU’s Green New Deal and improved mainstreaming of sustainable development issues in trade agreements. Switzerland’s transition to net zero will be carried out in a socially and economically acceptable way, and improve environmental quality.

[…]

Source: We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide | The New Republic

Ben Ehrenreich/March 18, 2021

On January 13, one week before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States and seven long days after the storming of the Capitol by an armed right-wing mob, it was easy enough to miss […]

Source: This Billionaire Governor’s Coal Companies Owe Millions More in Environmental Fines — ProPublica

Source: Countries Tried to Curb Trade in Plastic Waste. The U.S. Is Shipping More. – The New York Times

Source: Looking for Climate Solutions? Protect More Ocean, Researchers Find. – The New York Times

Among the surprising findings in a new paper on marine ecosystems: Trawling releases as much planet-warming carbon each year as global aviation.

A trawler on Georges Bank, between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. A new study found […]