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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

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. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. Colombia : Future Generations v. Ministry of the Environment.

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

Corp Watch

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. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé. They told Nestlé that they wanted them to stop.

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

Corp Watch

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. In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé. They told Nestlé that they wanted them to stop.

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

Law Columbia

Gigatonnes of CO 2 equivalent emissions from 1990 to 2018. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. Indonesia is now the seventh largest cumulative emitter in the world, having emitted 41.59

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. In 2010, satellite image analysis shows an inhabited village in Sadan. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi. Photo by Kunle Adebajo. Escaping a gluttonous desert into bloodshed.