Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 13
This issue of EJM focusses on climate change, global policy and legal developments, environmental challenges ,human rights and other major issues.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 12
This issue of EJM focusses on traditional medicines, lake rehabilitation, water security, climate change and other major issues.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 11
This issue of EJM focuses on securing land rights to the hakki pikki tribes, Ragikana Santhe, plastics, pollution and forest conservation.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 10
This Issue of EJM focuses on the amendments to the Biodiversity Act and Forest Conservation Act, the revival of handloom in India, plastic pollution and many more burning issues.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 09
This issue of EJM focus on the horrific situation in Manipur, the handloom industry in North Karnataka, reimagining urban governance in Bengaluru and reclaiming our right to protest.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 08: On World Environment Day, Youth Imagine their Futures
This issue focuses on the poor condition of lakes and storm water drains in the city, the troubling pathways to climate mitigation, protection of indigenous knowledge and the environmental injustice caused by urbanisation.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 07
This issue focusses on biodiversity and forest cover loss, threat to water commons, plastic pollution, cons of renewables and coastal maldevelopment.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 06: ESG is 25!
This issue focuses on Biodiversity, Conservation, Climate Change, Threatened Commons, Adivasi Rights, Climate Change, Urban and Infrastructures Maldevelopment, and Judicial Interventions for Sustainable Development.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 05: ESG Turns 25!
This issue focuses on Adivasi Rights, Climate Change Updates and relevant Policy Developments, Environmental Degradation and Pollution, People’s Participation in Conservation, Environmental Jurisprudence, Distributed Renewable energy, Disastrous Urban Expansion and Conserving Water Commons.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 04
This issues focusses on ecologically sensitive threatened regions, regulatory collapse, reckless urbanisation, plastic and air pollution and climate change.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 03
This issue focuses on environmental jurisprudence, issues with renewable solutions, encroachment of commons, mitigation for climate change impacts, mining, GMOs and thriving biodiversity.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 02
This issue focuses on threats to blue-green commons such as lakes, rivers, parks and more, environmental impact of development, speculations about clean energy and carbon emissions.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 01
EJM Vol. 4 Issue 01 focuses on the decline of urban greenery in Bengaluru, environmental impacts, plastic ban and renewable energy.
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The 2022 year end issue of Environment Justice Matters
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 14
Featured Book Talk: “Seed Activism” by Karine E Peschard On 13th December, 2012, ESG held a book talk to launch
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 13 : Climate Change and the 27th Conference of UNFCCC Parties (COP27) and more
27th COP of United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change at the seaside resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt during 6th – 20th November 2022. The main gain, it appears, is the decision to establish and operationalize a ‘loss and damage fund’ which most vulnerable countries have been demanding for decades now
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 12 : Regressive Amendments Proposed To Environmental Laws Of India Resisted
The unanimous conclusion of legal scholars, environmental and social justice activists, researchers, etc. is that all of the proposed Bills must be withdrawn immediately.
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 10
The @CompCoRe_STS project organised the first (semi-)in person meeting at @HarvardSTS . Leo Saldanha and Bhargavi Rao of ESG are part of this network and writing the India paper as part of a 50 country study on how COVID was managed, an international research effort led by Prof. Sheila Jananoff of Harvard Kennedy School and Prof. Stephen Hiltgartner of Cornell University.
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 9: Environment Ministry proposes comprehensive dilution of India’s Environmental Laws & More..
There has been systematic dilution of India’s forest and biodiversity protection laws for several years now. But the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change now proposes to fundamentally change the essential characteristic of India’s environmental jurisprudence with fundamental changes that it proposes to India’s umbrella environmental law, the Environment Protection Act, 1986, and also the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991.
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Environment Justice Matters_ Vol3. Issue 8
The Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University’s Earth Institute issued the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) report recently. It is projected as a “data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world” and uses “40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories” to rank “180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality”. India has been ranked at the bottom of this list, scoring merely 18.9 points of a possible 100.
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Environment Justice Matters| Environment Day | Vol3. Issue 7
At Environment Support Group(ESG), every day is Environment Day. And it has been the case for us ever since the organisation was founded, 25 years ago. Yes, it is the 25th year of this initiative and we hope we are doing our bit to be grateful for the incredible opportunity of being a part of this living planet.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol 3. Issue. 6 | Large Gaps In Bengaluru’s Urban Planning Process & More
The IPCC sixth assessment report released early April notes that climate misinformation can jeopardise climate action and weaken public demand for mitigation and adaptation measures. The report acknowledges the role of misinformation in fuelling polarisation, saying, “Together with the proliferation of suspicions of “fake news” and “post-truth”, some traditional and social media contents have fuelled polarisation and partisan divides on climate change in many countries.”
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 5 | It’s a Last-Minute Gift that Makes a Difference
In the final hours of the 2021-22 Financial Year, we invite you to support ESG’s critical efforts advancing environmental justice.
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 4 | Impacts of the War, Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point
The war is also a reminder for the urgent need for stringent international control necessary in the use of thermobaric, cluster and nuclear weapons, owing to the brutality and highest dangers arising from the use of these inhuman tools of mass destruction.
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 3 | Sidestepping Climate Change Accord Commitments in support of Mega projects |Amulya K. N. Reddy
A key strategy promoted to tackle climate change, especially from the North, is to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and shift to renewables. Which, as Thea Riofrancos argues in Foreign Policy, is fraught with serious inconsistencies even if this involves shifting the mining of minerals critical to the renewable energy transition to the Global North. ”Global north onshoring does not repair the forms of environmental harm disproportionally meted out in the global south”, he argues. Besides, this would create new problems which primarily affect oppressed populations within affluent countries.
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