July 08 2021
Following the Paris Agreement in 2015, green investing has become an essential factor in sustainable development and investment strategy. It is being employed by major countries around the world, including the EU, the US and China for setting out targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote green new deals, and establish targets for achieving carbon neutrality.
After announcing its European Green Deal, which committed a total investment of €1 trillion ($1.19 trillion), the EU introduced the European Climate Law in March 2020, and followed it up with measures such as the guide on climate-related and environmental risks in November 2020, and the EU taxonomy. It has also announced that it will impose a carbon border tax on imports by 2023. President Joe Biden of the US has also announced, as a part of his campaign pledge, an environmental policy shift to rejoin the Paris Agreement, to invest $2 trillion in clean energy and infrastructure,
Jails, Sheriffs, and Carceral Policymaking
The title of this post is the title of this recent paper authored by Aaron Littman just published in the
Vanderbilt Law Review. Here is its abstract:
The machinery of mass incarceration in America is huge, intricate, and destructive. To understand it and to tame it, scholars and activists look for its levers of power where are they, who holds them, and what motivates them? This much we know: legislators criminalize, police arrest, prosecutors charge, judges sentence, prison officials confine, and probation and parole officials manage release.
As this Article reveals, jailers, too, have their hands on the controls. The sheriffs who run jails along with the county commissioners who fund them have tremendous but unrecognized power over the size and shape of our criminal legal system, particularly in rural areas and for people accused or convicted of low-level crimes.
Last year’s deal could set the rules for global commerce for years to come, leaving the door open to lavish Chinese subsidies and unilateral American tariffs.