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Abigail Boyd
Abigail Selina Boyd is an Australian politician living on the Central Coast in New South Wales. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019, representing the Greens. Boyd was a corporate lawyer specialising in global banking regulation before her election. Boyd's areas of policy interest include climate change, economic inequality, domestic and family violence, animal welfare, disability and young people. Early life and career Boyd was born in England and moved to Australia as a young child. She attended public schools in New South Wales, before graduating from Macquarie University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), and from the University of New South Wales in 1999 with a Bachelor of Laws. She is qualified to practise law in New South Wales, England and Wales. Boyd worked as a Solicitor at Mallesons Sydney from 1998 to 2003, at Blake Dawson Sydney from 2003 to 2004, and at Freshfields in London from 2004 to 2005. She was a Capital P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Transition
Just transition is a framework developed by the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' rights and livelihoods when economies are shifting to sustainable production, primarily combating climate change and protecting biodiversity. In Europe, advocates for a just transition want to unite social and climate justice, for example, for coal workers in coal-dependent developing regions who lack employment opportunities beyond coal. Definition In the past years, a number of organizations have deployed the concept of a Just Transition with respect to environmental and/or climate justice. In policy International policy At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, or COP 21, unions and just transition advocates convinced the Parties to include language regarding just transition and the creation of decent work in the Paris Agreement’s preamble. At the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of New South Wales Law School Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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