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Christopher Stone, Who Proposed Legal Rights for Trees, Dies at 83 A law review article he wrote in 1972 kick-started a worldwide movement to grant nature the same rights enjoyed by human beings. Christopher D. Stone in an undated photo. “I am quite seriously proposing,” he wrote in an influential article, “that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called ‘natural objects’ in the environment.”Credit...via USC Gould School of Law May 28, 2021, 5:13 p.m. ET Christopher D. Stone, who in 1972 made what seemed a whimsical argument — that forests and rivers sho...

Tetra Pak Joins Business and Government Leaders for Conversation on Meeting Biden's Climate Goals Virtual symposium on May 6, Rethinking Tomorrow: Using Innovation to Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Circular Economy Published 04-29-21 Submitted by Tetra Pak DENTON, Texas, April 28, 2021 /CSRwire/– On May 6, U.S. and Swedish leaders will converge for a virtual symposium on Rethinking Tomorrow: Using Innovation to Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Circular Economy streamed live from the House of Sweden in Washington D.C.  The conversation features leaders from government, the private sector,...

"We can use data and [artificial intelligence] and computing to help in the fight against climate change. For example, the IBM Research Division is using these technologies to accelerate the discovery of materials which might help to remove carbon from the atmosphere," Balta says. The other companies signing The Climate Pledge announced Wednesday span all manner of industries and include logistics company Vanderlande; UPM, a forest industry company offering renewable and recyclable alternatives to fossil-based materials and products; re-usable drinkware company MiiR; Johnson Controls, which s...

472 views Before launching into unbridled enthusiasm about the implications for environmental policies of the change from Trump to Biden, it can be helpful to place this change into some historical context.  Someone who is exceptionally well qualified to do this is my guest in the latest episode of my podcast, released today – Daniel Esty, who held a variety of senior roles in the George H.W. Bush (Bush 41) administration, and has been a close observer – and sometime consultant – on environmental policies of the four subsequent Presidential administrations.  You can hear our com...