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The Season of Our Growing Discontent

Circle of Blue

The drop, months in the making, prompted the aquifer’s governing body to impose its strictest level of water cuts. The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25.

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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

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3]. 2 pp 105-110. (2)

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion.

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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Primer

Law Columbia

The gap between innovation and regulation came into sharp focus in 2012, when a Canadian-based group – the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation – discharged 100 tonnes of iron into the Pacific Ocean in an unsanctioned effort to stimulate a plankton bloom that would both sequester carbon and revive salmon populations.

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Taking Climate Change to the International Court of Justice: Legal and Procedural Issues

Law Columbia

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. Most recently, in a 2018 decision the Court ordered Nicaragua to pay damages to Costa Rica for injury to wetlands and rainforests in the territory of Costa Rica. It sits in the Hague. It has 15 judges.

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A Sea Full of Trash: Tackling the Plastic Problem

Vermont Law

As researchers struggle to understand the scope of the situation, local governments, non-profits, and universities are working on a host of creative solutions. For the plastic that remains solely on land, students from Yale University’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory discovered a . A Solution for Synthetics.