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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

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On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Environmental Ministry and Brazil ). o C global warming scenario.

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

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Business & Human Rights Resource Center | September 25, 2009 The suit argues that the government did not consult with local people before giving the companies permission to work there, as is required under international law, and oil exploration would violate local peoples’ fundamental human rights to ‘enjoy a balanced environment’.

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

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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JBS fires indigenous worker in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for reporting precarious company buses, says union

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JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. million in November 2021 for breaking COVID-19 prevention rules in São Miguel do Guaporé in the state of Paraná in Brazil. regarding the lack of safety measures for its workers. It was forced to pay at least US$4.2

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NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments

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JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. million in November 2021 for breaking COVID-19 prevention rules in São Miguel do Guaporé in the state of Paraná in Brazil. regarding the lack of safety measures for its workers. It was forced to pay at least US$4.2

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

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On April 21, 2021, the European Commission adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which substantially expands the climate information that must be reported by covered companies. Lazarus, “Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future,” 94 Cornell Law Review 1153 (2009). [36]