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

Corp Watch

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Repsol: Another Petroleum Company in Ancestral U'wa Land Published by Amazon Watch | October 10, 2001 We are calling the attention of groups that support the U'wa people.

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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. 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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Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people

A Greener Life

Those responsible ranges from the Paraguayan government to local ranchers – and international financiers, as a new analysis has detailed. But negotiations with the Paraguayan government have failed to advance, and incursions and destruction continue on their lands.

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Taking Climate Change to the International Court of Justice: Legal and Procedural Issues

Law Columbia

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. For example, the court would hear about the Draft Articles on the Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities, promulgated by the International Law Commission in 2001. It sits in the Hague.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

A long-term objective would be that, consistent with other environmental legislation in which California has taken a lead, the federal government may eventually take over and establish a comprehensive corporate climate disclosure regulation of its own. Jody Freeman, “The Private Role in Public Governance,” 75 N.Y.U. 39] 42 U.S.C.

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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

ESA

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. total for the D.C.

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