ATLAS Environmental Law Advisory

07/07/2017

Enjoy the beautiful story of Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi from Yeli, China. 🍃🌱🇨🇳🌳🌿

https://youtu.be/C2cqQA_zsKY

In the village of Yeli, China, two men have formed an unlikely team to improve their community. Sixteen years ago, Jia Haixia lost his eyesight. His best fri...

22/06/2017

Emmanuel Macron's government will pay US scientists to study climate change in France!

31/05/2017

One more symptom of the dawn of a new world order? 🌏 While the isolationist US regime turns inwards, away from progress, reason and cooperation, China 🇨🇳 and India 🇮🇳 lead from the East...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-climate-change-paris-accord-destroy-planet-india-china-a7760731.html

Earlier this year Donald Trump received a personal letter urging him not to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

13/05/2017

🇮🇳 India's progressive energy policies have attracted considerable investment, 💵 so that the South Asian giant may soon exceed the renewables targets it set out at the Paris Climate Agreement! 🌞

Can other developed and developing nations follow India's example?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/10/indian-solar-power-prices-hit-record-low-undercutting-fossil-fuels

Plummeting wholesale prices put the country on track to meet renewable energy targets set out in the Paris agreement

07/05/2017

Enjoy this beautiful story about the reintroduction of the mighty wolf 🐺 in Yellowstone National Park! 🌲

04/05/2017

In the USA's Deep South, a new pipeline threatens the Americas' most valuable wetland habitat, putting animal and human life at risk.

http://sierraclub.org/sierra/after-dapl-pipeline-fight-moves-louisiana?suppress=true&utm_source=greenlife&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Standing Rock has energized opponents of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline

26/04/2017

It's a bug-eat-bag world out there. 🐛

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21721328-escape-shopping-bag-triggers-idea-plastic-eating-caterpillars-could?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fmotheatenplasticeatingcaterpillarscouldsavetheplanet

An escape from a shopping bag triggers an idea

24/04/2017

The population of Pacific bluefin tuna is just 3% of its historic high. 🐟 Could a moratorium save them?

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/24/japan-criticised-exceed-bluefin-tuna-fishing-quota

Conservationists call on Japan to abide by fishing agreements after reports annual quota will be exceeded two months early

22/04/2017

Here's a reminder, before Earth Day, that coal is still a big deal! 🇬🇧

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39675418

Friday was the first day coal wasn't used to generate electricity since the Industrial Revolution, says the National Grid.

08/04/2017

Are you drinking your fleece? 🚱 Synthetic fabrics in clothes are polluting the water system with tiny microplastics.

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-fashion/patagonia-admits-theres-problem-synthetic-clothes.html

Called 'the biggest environmental problem you've never heard of,' the shedding of plastic microfibers is a topic nobody wants to discuss

05/04/2017

Great news! 🇺🇸 A Reuters survey suggests that suggests that the bulk of US utilities 🏭 have no plans to alter their multi-billion dollar, years-long shift away from coal, even in the 26 states that opposed Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-climate-power-idUSKBN1770D8

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to sweep away Obama-era climate change regulations, he said it would end America's "war on coal", usher in a new era of energy production and put miners back to work.