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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.

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

Law Columbia

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy.

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

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In October 2016, Greenpeace Nordic and Nature and Youth sought a declaratory judgment from the Oslo District Court that Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy violated the Norwegian Constitution by issuing a block of oil and gas licenses for deep-sea extraction from sites in the Barents Sea. Total (Nanterre District Court).

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