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UBC Law awards first-ever Allard Prize for International Integrity to Anna Hazare

Japan has been the largest buyer of timber products from Sarawak, Malaysia, for more than twenty years. This report examines systematic corruption, illegal logging, and human rights violations in Sarawak’s forest sector and the extensive timber trade between Sarawak and Japan. It argues that Japan should join the United States, the European Union, and Australia in enacting legislation that...  

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, T.D. on the 6th of August launched a public consultation on the development of a National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Unfortunately, the current approach is wiping out an area of forest larger than Ireland every year, meaning that in some countries tropical forests could all but disappear within 50 years.

Just Forests makes formal complaint to Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the National Monuments Service

The European Commission has decided to ban three neonicotinoid insecticides. These chemicals can harm honeybees, according to a large body of scientific evidence, so the European Environment Agency (EEA) commends the precautionary decision to ban them.

The Irish Parliament recently considered non-implementation of the EUTR, following work by ClientEarth and Irish development education NGO Just Forests. The Irish Deputy Minister for Agriculture's response gave no clear indication of when Ireland might comply with the regulation.

A study led by Rob Jackson of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that drinking water wells located within 1 kilometer of a shale gas well in a region of northeastern Pennsylvania are at high risk of contamination with methane.