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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

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hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. The protection of these communities relates explicitly to their territory according to the ILO Convention No. Extractive activities are based on the concept of sustainable development and require forests to remain intact.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

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Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). The Global Pact could change this.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. The Court wrote, “The court acknowledges that RDS cannot solve this global problem on its own.

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