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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to formally recognize and implement the Rights of Nature, which Ecuadorians refer to as the Rights of Pachamama (Mother Earth). The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place

Edouard Stenger

According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year, representing 8% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Over a third of global food production , 1.3 This accounts for 4.4

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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

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] crops declined 18% between 1980 and 2008 and is today 80 percent lower than their 1972 peak. [17] and around the world. 26] The U.S.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself. Their status today is “Near Threatened”.

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. States in Mexico, including Jalisco, Yucatn and Oaxaca, have developed sustainable supply chain certification programs to help reduce deforestation. Acre, Brazil.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. Bodie, One Share, One Vote and the False Promise of Shareholder Homogeneity, 30 Cardozo Law Review 445 (2008). [33] This means that the leaders of U.S. Urganda Foundation v.

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