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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’

Corp Watch

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children.

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

Corp Watch

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children.

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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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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022. In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders. Photo by Kunle Adebajo.

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

Vermont Law

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. In Mexico , the Biosphere Reserve Sierra Gorda faces excessive logging, fires, and deforestation for tourist housing.

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