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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.

Legal Planet

For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Analysis: Energy needs drive deforestation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

A Greener Life

The rate of deforestation has since slowed, but it is still of major concern. Timber smuggling is another major cause of deforestation in the region. Khan says this is partly due to deforestation, adding: “This is a significant increase, and if this trend continues until the end of 2100, there is a fear of a further 3C increase.

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Jason Gray Joins the Emmett Institute as Project Director, Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

Legal Planet

In his new role as Project Director of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , Jason will help direct a major sub-national coalition focused on reducing tropical deforestation and advancing inclusive, equitable, low-emissions development at jurisdiction scale. Photo credit: GCF Task Force.

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IEA v. Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change

Law Columbia

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm.

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The Stream, December 7, 2022: England’s Water Industry Mostly Owned by Private Foreign Interests, Report Reveals

Circle of Blue

In the short-term, pollution from commercial pens will cease; recovering native fish species will be less exposed to diseases that mass-farmed fish may carry; and net collapses — such as one particularly devastating event in 2017, when 260,000 farmed, non-native salmon were released into the Puget Sound — will no longer pose a risk.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2017, four rivers sought and in some instances won legal rights: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the Rio Altrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in India. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. The Provincial Justice Court of Loja ruled in favor of the river.