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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. 2020 for example, the Amazon saw its highest deforestation rate in over a decade. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT). decrease compared to the previous year.

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Frontiers’ volunteers: Riding for restoration and… cake

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However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Globally, 80’000 acres of rainforest disappear each day. These rainforests play a pivotal role in the Earth’s functioning and are relied upon by countless species and indigenous communities.

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

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Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Read More Other Key Sources Business & Human Rights profile of Repsol S.A.

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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. In 2001, East Kalimantan had 126,000 sq km of primary forest. Among the 26 countries investigated, this accounted for 58.2% of direct forest loss by mining, making Indonesia the most affected by far. billion. “One

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Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people

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The Global Witness report builds on the “ Grand Theft Chaco ” investigations released by UK-based nonprofit Earthsight in 2020, in which both companies were named. The meatpackers, however, have not made changes to their operations in the period since, the report’s author, Charlie Hammans, told me.

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The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest

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Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. In 2001, the Clinton administration enacted the Roadless Rule , which banned road-building and timber harvesting in certain forested areas, including much of the Tongass.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

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This move reverses a 2020 Trump administration rule which removed protections for around 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest, effectively re-opening these areas to logging. The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule.

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