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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

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USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

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USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production. For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4].

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center. In 2020, coal producers received 670 million reais in subsidies and, as laid out under the 2002 energy management law , the CDE should continue to subsidise them until 2027. billion – was in coal.

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Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

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USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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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

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on food and agriculture. percent drop in pasture land since 2000. [13]