The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday voted to approve an 11.5 GW procurement package composed entirely of clean energy resources that will come online in the middle of the decade, marking its largest-ever capacity procurement ordered at once. The new resources are intended to prepare the state for more extreme weather and help […]
How YOU can Help – Letter to the Richest Britons
How YOU Can help – a British Plea to the Richest Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help 18 April 2019 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES The UN has warned that the goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” is in danger because major […]
Tapping into what matters: Relational Values and Policy mixes for sustainability
CACOR cordially invites you to a Presentation and Round Table Debate About the session This is a presentation given by Professor Kai Chan and a workshop session run by the Values Committee. Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Kai is an interdisciplinary, […]
CAN CITIZENS BE CLIENTS?
By Nicole Morgan, CACOR member. As my title suggests, I have some doubts about a current doctrinal theme, which governments in desperate financial straits are applying in the hope of pulling themselves back from incipient chaos. The notion that citizens be regarded and treated as clients or customers of government agencies may not be a panacea. […]
My job is to clean up the environment
James Thornton’s specialty is suing governments and corporations on behalf of his only client – the Earth – and he’s very good at it. In his four decades of legal practice across three continents, he’s never lost a case. Acknowledging this in 2009 the New Statesman named him one of the ten people likely to change the […]