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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Biofuels leadership Brazil remains a global leader in biofuel production, particularly ethanol from sugarcane, which significantly reduces reliance on fossil fuels and cuts greenhouse gas emissions. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. Brazil’s Power Sector Overview.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy use (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which in turn would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs. Riley, “Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001,” Population and Development Review 31, no.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule. EPA – Notice of Public Comment Period for the Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress External Review Draft. EPA – Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions To Protect Tribal Reserved Rights.