#ClimateScience #ImpactLitigation

16 young people argue the state of #Montana’s #EnvironmentalPolicies promote #FossilFuels, in violation of their right to a ‘clean & healthful environment’. That right is enshrined in the state’s constitution, making the #ClimateCase — #HeldVMontana — the 1st of its kind to go to trial in the US, & the an example of frustrated citizens worldwide taking #legal action to force govts to act on #ClimateChange.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01931-z

Analysis "in the context of recent calls in the #EU for the inclusion of more perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities in #EnvironmentalAssessment" [1]

On proliferating controversial "precisely wrong" monetary methods

https://mstdn.science/@Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs/109873680921402986

"Current impact assessments in the field of #EnvironmentalPolicies suffer from lack of diversity in economic thought"

"A standard neoclassic economic toolbox appears to dominate methodological choices"

@SFuntowicz @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs

Train derailed in grief
Trump blames Biden for the grief
But blames his own deed

#trump #biden #train #environmentalpolicies #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/trump-east-palestine-ohio-visit.html

THINK TANK: Creating room for #environmentalpolicies in trade policy

Two papers stood out in the European think tank universe this past week, one published by Bruegel and the other by IEEP

#GlobalTrade

By Maia Wilson
https://borderlex.net/2023/02/14/think-tank-creating-room-for-environmental-policies-in-trade-policy/

> Society, through non-governmental organizations and intermediate groups, must put pressure on governments to develop more rigorous regulations, procedures and controls. Unless citizens control political power – national, regional and #municipal – it will not be possible to control damage to the environment. Local legislation can be more effective, too, if agreements exist between neighbouring communities to support the same #EnvironmentalPolicies.
#PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi or #MurrayBookchin?