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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.

Legal Planet

For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. But in 2023 the script has been flipped and the good news keeps on coming. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 Q: What do you make of the reduction in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and what else should we know?

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen It was long expected that 2023 was going to be the warmest year ever recorded since records began. Every month since June 2023 has on a global level been the warmest compared with corresponding months in previous years. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

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Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The first results of this wave of Brazilian climate litigation bring good news. .”

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Europe’s largest banks are speeding up the climate and biodiversity crisis – Greenpeace

A Greener Life

Between 2016 and 2023 these major influential financial players provided a staggering 21.1% Hypocritical The report highlights that the EU ’s role in this is particularly hypocritical as it goes against many of its policy drives on climate change, stopping deforestation and the decline of ecosystem, nature and biodiversity loss.

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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.

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

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USA: Nestle bottled water operations spark protests amid California drought Rose Hackman | The Guardian | May 20, 2015 Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of two Nestle bottling plants in California on Wednesday to deliver petitions demanding the company stop bottling operations in the drought-stricken state.

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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

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Enhanced coal production Despite the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed the countries of the world to lower carbon emissions, India has seen no need to reduce coal use. In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”.