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

A Greener Life

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. 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.

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

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Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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

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Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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

Corp Watch

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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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

1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. 3] Max Roser et al.,