HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities. Photo from Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The only way to protect the communities along the river was to grant rights of nature to the river itself.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). The Global Pact could change this.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. 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] million to 3.3 Chen et al.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008. At this year’s conference, namely, COP 27, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a rainforest protection pact , vowing to cooperate on sustainable development management and conservation.

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