Will White House policies stall the country’s clean energy economy?
HEADNOTE ❧ The issue of deep seabed mining, how to manage it, and who benefits from it was a topic of intense debate during the lengthy period of negotiations to develop the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the 1970s and 1980s. Now that mining is set to get underway, It is still a topic of heated concern, which is why here we present a cluster of articles on seafloor mining in advance of the July meeting of the instrumentality created by UNCLOS to regulate sea-floor mining, the International Seabed Authority.
Waste-to-energy plants are not the elixir to solve power problem.
ISO 14001 proving real value as our company improves its EMS.
COVER STORY ❧ A review of how the U.S. government deals with unlikely scenarios that nonetheless could cause significant disruption to American society — and an argument that climate change effects deserve the same kind of emphasis and appropriate policy response.
CENTERPIECE ❧ It all depends on political leadership, as Florida girds for sea-level rise, a threat that is already underway and set to inundate whole neighborhoods. Billions of dollars of homes, businesses, infrastructure, and habitat will be wiped out without emissions cuts.
A report card on sustainability reporting by firms: is it sustainable?
