Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It In 2001, East Kalimantan had 126,000 sq km of primary forest. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. Another way to formulate the question is, “What are the obligations of states under international law to protect the rights of present and future generations against the adverse effects of climate change?”.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Courts Republican-led state sue to block environmental, social and governance retirement investing rule. The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule. Executive Branch Biden administration finalizes rule reinstating roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest.

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