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Analysis: Energy needs drive deforestation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

A Greener Life

to 45% between 2000 and 2005, then down to 42% by 2010. The rate of deforestation has since slowed, but it is still of major concern. Timber smuggling is another major cause of deforestation in the region. Furthermore, this decrease has accelerated, dropping from 45.9% Such an increase would have severe consequences.”

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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation.

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

Corp Watch

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) | 2013 Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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

Corp Watch

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) | 2013 Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020). Aggregate Trends of Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2020 Shah, K.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013. In 2010, satellite image analysis shows an inhabited village in Sadan. Zakkari points to a little pathway, barely navigable for cars and says, “There used to be a motorable road here, but not anymore.”. Disappearing communities in Yusufari.

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James Michener’s Chesapeake Bay Was A+

Vermont Law

1600s, but since then humans deforested the land, fished indiscriminately, farmed intensively, and the population grew. In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. In September 2013, District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo.

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