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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. candidate at Berkeley Law.

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Restoring Asia’s Roar: Our plan to see tigers flourish again in historic locations

Frontiers

Tigers used to occur over vast areas of Asia: from the Black Sea of Turkey to the Korean Peninsula and south through the rainforests of south-east Asia to the islands of Java and Bali. However, as a result of centuries of persecution and habitat loss, tigers currently occur in only a tiny fraction of this historic range.

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

Law Columbia

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] It went into effect in January 2023 and will be phased in over the next five years.

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

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. USA: Nestlé’s Latest Exploits: The case against Nestlé hasn’t stopped growing.

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

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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. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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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. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.