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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

In 2019, the Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, raising concerns about mining safety. Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. In 2000, the Petrobras oil spill in Guanabara Bay released 1.3

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Is York Region about to Hit the Accelerator on Car-Dependent Sprawl?

Enviromental Defense

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. .

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Conservative Party received 40 percent of its donations from fossil fuel interests in the first week of the campaign

A Greener Life

From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4 Locke has donated an additional £280,000 to the Conservatives since the 2019 general election. million since 2001. However the Tories can’t commit to action on the climate as they are in hock to oil and gas producers.”

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. Knodt, Michèle (2019). West European Politics, doi: [link]. Schoenefeld, J.

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Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold

Physics World

In 2019 Google’s quantum-computing team claimed that its Sycamore quantum circuit – with 53 qubits – had demonstrated “quantum advantage” (also referred to as supremacy) carrying out a computation beyond the means of any classical device on a practical timescale. Courtesy: IBM).

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Ecuador Group Files Lawsuit Against Repsol Amazon Watch | May 15, 2001 Environmental, human-rights and Indians groups filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court Tuesday to stop Repsol-YPF from building a new oil pipeline. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands. s refinery in Norco, La.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer has also donated £8.8