The development of renewable energy sources (RES) is a priority for the European Union. At the same time, given the principle of subsidiarity, EU Member States are free to decide how they support RES, so long as they comply with the rules of the EU energy market
1.Introduction Global food production is the single largest human pressure on Earth threatening local ecosystems, driving a sixth mass extinction of species, and impacting the stability of the entire Earth system. Food systems depend heavily on land, water and energy resources and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, related climate change and other environmental …
“Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too …
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The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Abstract Social inequality is one of the urgent global issues that world community has to pay a great deal of attention. This paper concerns social inequality problems from the perspectives of theoretical scholars and the practical implementation of ways to prevent this problem. In this paper, social inequality is interlinked with the Sustainable Development Goals …
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Abstract This paper highlights the status and impacts of personal consumption of clothing and footwear, and how it is connected to other sustainability issues. It further connects to the idea that one of the important factors that influence the production is consumer demand and proposes how to alter the consumer behavior towards sustainability in order …
It is internationally acknowledged that today’s societies are getting more and more inequal. There is in fact a common tendency of a widening of the gap between extremely rich and extremely poor people, while the middle class is being eroded.
This article explores the topic of commercial surrogacy as presented in Mennesson v.France and Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy. In these two cases, two couples become intended parents through the use of cross-border surrogacy specifically in California and Russia. They seek recognition of the legal parent-child relationship in their home states.
Iran is an energy superpower with the second largest reserves in the world that produced 5.1 percent of the world’s total petroleum output in 2004 .
The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life are multidimensional concepts and core determinants to capture the wellbeing of a country and its citizens. Its improvement constitutes a crucial objective of economic public policy for socio-economic progress and social justice.
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