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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation.

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

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020). OECD (2022).

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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

A Greener Life

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. Furthermore, India’s legislative frameworks afford limited protection because of fragmented state-wise tourism policies and the National Ecotourism Policy, 2022 plays a normative function at best. By Tejaswini Kaushal , B.A. In Union of India v.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022. The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013. Between 2016 and 2022 , about ?9.6 In the 2022 budget, ?250 How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities.