Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. To align itself with the Paris Agreement, Brazil should actually increase its ambition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement. Total bank financing for fossil fuels in 2022 was lower than it was in 2016, but Banking on Climate Chaos attributes that decrease partly to record oil and gas industry profits of $4 trillion last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They prop up fossil fuel industry infrastructure as the industry itself buys political influence to blunt and block any unified strategy for a fossil phase-down. At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Renewable Energy 256

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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