Environment & Sustainability

The South Korea case study indicates the co-benefits of air quality and climate change policy, by designing relevant legal and institutional frameworks in a more comprehensive and holistic…

Pacific island states are among the most vulnerable to the crisis of climate change, which threatens massive displacement, tests human rights protection, and imperils territories. These large ocean…

China’s implementation of new ESG practices suggests a serious shift towards meeting global standards and domestic-level sustainable development objectives. The new ESG regime also has the potential to be a…

Poor metaphors can muddy the nature of environmental policy problems, but good ones can help policymakers begin to understand how to solve them. Using language carefully is critical…

The ecological dimensions of the death of the Aral Sea are fairly well known. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. While some claim that the pandemic has benefited the environment…

It may come as a surprise to many readers, but since 2005, Lake Chad has stopped shrinking; in fact, it has actually stabilized in the last two decades,…

The below article is the final installment of a two-part series. This installment is titled “The Urgent Environmental Implications of Traditional Icelandic Elf Beliefs.” Some claim that education, technological progress,…

The below article is the first installment in a two-part series. This installment is titled “The Politics of Sacrosanctity and Elf Belief in Iceland.” For centuries, Icelanders observed a set…

While climate change continues to threaten all nations, the full severity of its impacts is yet to be understood. A range of root factors including geographic location, socioeconomic conditions, and…