Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands.

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MAY 21, 2021

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3]. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5]. Written by: Danielle McGuire. Unfortunately guarding their land comes at extreme costs.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

United Nations General Debate – New York, September 24, 2019. by world leaders regarding the Bolsonaro administration’s inaction to prevent or stop the burning of the Amazon rainforest—. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

was brought by 16 children and youth against five States (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey) in 2019. In Future Generations v. The Special Rapporteur should be appointed in the coming months. Decision by the CRC. Sacchi et al. Argentina et al.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 27, 2023

The pipelines will run close to Dehing Patkai National Park, which encompasses the largest stretch of lowland rainforest in India and is home to multiple endangered species, including the western hoolock gibbon and white-winged duck, the state bird of Assam. An endangered western hoolock gibbon.

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MAY 27, 2022

It was the first SEEDS in-person event since September 2019, when SEEDS hosted a Leadership Meeting at the Virginia Coastal Reserve. . by the National Ecological Observatory Network. In Spring 2022, the ESA SEEDS program took a regional field trip to the NEON field sites in Puerto Rico.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

According to implementation guidelines issued in 2019 on a trial basis by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, organisers of such events should “neutralise the actual greenhouse gas emissions generated by large-scale events through the purchase of carbon allowances, carbon credits, or newly established carbon-sink forests.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

The continent’s second-longest river behind the Amazon, the Paraná is a workhorse, supporting rainforest diversity, Indigenous ancestral homes, and Argentina’s economy: over 80 percent of the country’s farm exports, primarily wheat and soy, are transported via the waterway. .

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

The weather phenomenon, El Nino, influenced extreme weather events at the beginning of 2024 – however, the report’s authors say that their study found that climate change played a more prominent influential role, including a historic drought in the worlds largest tropical rainforest – the Amazon.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 2, 2021

According to the Sydney Morning Herald , the report warned that impacts from climate change will include the drying of tropical rainforests, and more frequent and intense heat waves and floods. Inside Climate News reports that a 2019 analysis found that of the 68 million acres of corn and soybean planted, only 3.2

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AUGUST 8, 2020

In a long interview last year, Nepstad was shockingly candid with me about the harms perpetrated by the environmental NGO community in the Amazon, including how their efforts had contributed to the fragmentation of the rainforest. Notably, however, Nepstad did not request any corrections to my article in our conversation, nor has he since.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

Another study from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research program site in the Puerto Rican rainforest reproduced an insect survey from the 1970s. Mon, 04/29/2019 - 10:19. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Top image credit: Chris Luczkow, CC BY.

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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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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) originally created the committee in 2007 and then revived it in 2019 when Democrats retook control of the House. Brazil, Indonesia and Congo Sign Rainforest Protection Pact – The New York Times. Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. McArthur Graduate Student Policy Award. expert group – Reuters.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox | March 28, 2019 Dozens of workers at one of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling and distribution plants have refused to go to work for almost two months, demanding the same 20 percent increase with a $32,000 peso bonus.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox | March 28, 2019 Dozens of workers at one of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling and distribution plants have refused to go to work for almost two months, demanding the same 20 percent increase with a $32,000 peso bonus.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox | March 28, 2019 Dozens of workers at one of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling and distribution plants have refused to go to work for almost two months, demanding the same 20 percent increase with a $32,000 peso bonus.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 9, 2023

Asset management giants BlackRock and Vanguard were also found to have significantly increased their investments in Minerva between 2019 and 2022, rising from US$840,000 to US$4.8 The Bank of America, meanwhile, underwrote a US$285 million bond for Frigorifico Concepción in 2021. million and US$4.5 million to US$8.6 million, respectively.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Light, “The Law of the Corporation as Environmental Law,” 71 Stanford Law Review 137 (2019) (arguing for expanding the boundaries of environmental law); Eric W. Times , July 18, 2023. [7] 7] Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Climate Reanalyzer, Daily Sea Surface Temperature, [link]. [8] 8] Zachary M. 9] See Sarah E.

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MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., Margulis, S. ” World Bank. McGowan, J.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Federal Court Denied Motions to Dismiss Challenges to 2019 Presidential Permit for Keystone XL. The federal district court for the District of Montana denied motions to dismiss and for a preliminary injunction in litigation challenging a presidential permit issued in 2019 for a cross-border segment of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

These are important initiatives, and the destruction of the Amazon and other rainforests around the world is a huge contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss. Nature-based solutions are projects such as preserving and restoring existing forests , peatlands, wetlands and other natural carbon sinks , and growing more trees.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

139 ) requiring federal agencies to return to telework policies in effect at the end of 2019, largely along party lines with almost all House Republicans supporting this bill and almost all House Democrats opposing the bill. ESA will announce the process for badging ESA member for COP28 in the coming months.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

He joined the Trump administration in boycotting further developments of the Paris Agreement’s Rulebook during COP 25, held in Madrid in 2019. Likewise, President Bolsonaro, who was not ashamed of trying to game the system, pursued anti-environmental and climate policies in the international arena.

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