Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

Panel discussions centered around implementing innovative financing mechanisms, leveraging carbon markets for Indigenous empowerment, and executing jurisdiction-scale programs to combat deforestation while supporting sustainable livelihoods. All these events make evident the continuous effort to steer financial resources to the Global South.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. EEOC says JBS violated Muslim worker rights-report Reuters | September 5, 2009 A federal panel has ruled that the U.S. arm of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA JBSS3.SA

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