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Climate crisis calls world’s top scientists to Montreux 

Frontiers

Devastating forest fires, record-breaking carbon emissions, and the warmest ocean temperatures on record are just a few of the issues we’ve seen escalate, alongside rising deforestation, pollution, and plastic production. The Frontiers Forum has been an annual event held in Switzerland for leading researchers in their fields since 2015.

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

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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

A Greener Life

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste.

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

Law Columbia

From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

Indeed, while climate variability and moisture losses on a global level are a major source of concern, human activities, such as deforestation, overgrazing, cropland expansion and unchecked population growth, are making an already worrisome situation even worse. Traveling for 10 to 15 km will make it [the cattle] lose weight.