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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Photo by Andre Deak via Flickr. The first results of this wave of Brazilian climate litigation bring good news. And somehow historical.

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

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Nestle now to face lawsuit over slave labor in West Africa John O'Brien | Legal Newsline | April 4, 2022 After almost three years, plaintiff lawyers have finally come up with a complaint that adequately alleges Nestle falsely labeled products to mislead consumers about the use of child and slave labor in the West African cocoa supply chain.

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

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Nestle now to face lawsuit over slave labor in West Africa John O'Brien | Legal Newsline | April 4, 2022 After almost three years, plaintiff lawyers have finally come up with a complaint that adequately alleges Nestle falsely labeled products to mislead consumers about the use of child and slave labor in the West African cocoa supply chain.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] Victor, Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World (2022).

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Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

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Nestle now to face lawsuit over slave labor in West Africa John O'Brien | Legal Newsline | April 4, 2022 After almost three years, plaintiff lawyers have finally come up with a complaint that adequately alleges Nestle falsely labeled products to mislead consumers about the use of child and slave labor in the West African cocoa supply chain.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

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Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.