2020 Deforestation Politics Regulations 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5 percent.
Law Columbia
MARCH 28, 2022
Brazil (on deforestation and human rights) (ADPF 760) and PSB et al. The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. Two climate litigation cases are included on the docket on March 30th: PSB et al. Brazill (on Amazon Fund) (ADO 59).
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Corp Watch
MARCH 1, 2024
Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
Corp Watch
MARCH 1, 2024
Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. Overall, since 2010, when the NPCC was regulated, Brazil increased emissions by 23.2%, and therefore did not alter its emissions trajectory.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. A separate program regulates mines abandoned after 1977, the subject of the next article in this series.). The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation.
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