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The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action

Legal Planet

Why hasn’t there been more movement against greenhouse gas emissions caused by animal agriculture? This is primarily due to deforestation and other land-use changes caused by converting wild areas into farmland to grow crops for livestock. Emissions from Animal Agriculture It’s not for lack of research.

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6% decrease compared to the previous year.

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

That included the exhilarating success in 2015 , when nearly 200 nations committed to keep global warming in check by signing the Paris Agreement. In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. Acre, Brazil.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. Tucker, Institutional Investing When Shareholders Are Not Supreme, 5 Harvard Business Law Review 73 (2015); Eric W. This means that the leaders of U.S. Jeffers, David K.

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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. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. Expectations so far are optimistic.

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Business and industry must rise to the challenge of climate change

Physics World

That increase will breach the targets agreed by the 2015 Paris climate agreement set at COP21 and bring widespread devastation and more instances of extreme weather. C above pre-industrial levels, for example by phasing out coal, stopping deforestation, switching to electric vehicles and investing in renewables.

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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?

A Greener Life

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.