Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. 19-1230 et al. Chao , No.

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JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. “World Environment Day is a day of celebration. Making agriculture biodiversity positive.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. To bring some levity to this post and end on some lighter note, please check out Bill Nye on Last Week Tonight back to 2019. Globally, June was just over 0.5C

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

Yet, only 13% of the installed solar power in Brazil lies in rural areas, according to 2020 data from the Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar Energy Association (Absolar). “Since 2019, our electricity bill has gone up a lot because of the tariff hike. Photo credit: Caio Coronel/Itaipu Binacional/2020. MW to 791.32 billion a year.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2019, the city of Toledo, Ohio adopted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a municipal law that gave the lake rights of its own. In 2020, a federal judge ruled that the Lake Erie Bill of Rights is “invalid in its entirety” based on the premise that the law itself was “unconstitutionally vague” and exceeded municipal powers.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008. He joined the Trump administration in boycotting further developments of the Paris Agreement’s Rulebook during COP 25, held in Madrid in 2019. GtCO2) each year on average, comparable to the de- crease observed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As part of the Paris Agreement Rulebook, countries needed to update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCS) by 2020 to help in reducing global temperature rise by 1.5 Paris Agreement Implementation timeline, which highlights the updating of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by 2020. degrees Celsius. Does the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden made a joint announcement of a pledge to cut global methane emissions 30% by 2030, relative to 2020 levels. More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Global Methane Pledge. More of this difficult but important work is needed.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4]. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5]. 4) Global witness (July 2020) – Defending tomorrow: [link]. (5) 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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MAY 21, 2021

Brazil’s Amazon: Deforestation ‘surges to 12-year high’ Retrieved from [link]. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Shukman, D. O’Shea, N. Retrieved from [link]. Retrieved from [link]. Barkley, A.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center. In 2020, coal producers received 670 million reais in subsidies and, as laid out under the 2002 energy management law , the CDE should continue to subsidise them until 2027. billion – was in coal.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It has been a busy year for climate litigation and 2020 promises even more fireworks. Most recently, in June 2019, the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments on the government’s motion to summarily dismiss the case on the grounds that the youth plaintiffs lack standing and have no constitutional basis for their claims. United States. ,

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. Solar and wind. Hydropower. Dams are not the only way to convert water into electricity.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

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. By 2020, the village has disappeared.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Countries pledge to combat deforestation, cut methane emissions, transition away from coal and more. World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Michael Bennet in 2019 ( S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

was brought by 16 children and youth against five States (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey) in 2019. This development also follows the HRC’s 2020 resolution calling on States to recognize the right to a healthy environment in their national legislation and to ensure, in particular, children’s rights (see more here ).

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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MARCH 14, 2022

The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. In December 2020, the Trump administration unexpectedly denied an Army Corps of Engineers permit to the mining project. under the Clean Water Act to the pre-2015 standard.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The decision means that NSF opts not to rebuild the telescope dish at the Arecibo Observatory, which was destroyed in late 2020. The data shows that the number of doctorates awarded in 2021 dropped by 5.4%% from 2020 levels, the biggest decrease recorded since NSF started tracking this information in 1958. Scientific Community.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

percent in 2019, EPA says – The Hill. New Mexico issues 2020 Forest Action Plan – Santa Fe New Mexican. How Mexico’s Vast Tree-Planting Program Ended Up Encouraging Deforestation – Bloomberg Green. The event, originally scheduled for June 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. US emissions dropped 1.7

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, diplomats failed to agree about how to fulfill a decade-old pledge that was set to begin in 2020 to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help developing counties with climate adaptation and mitigation each year. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

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