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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5

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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation. million in 2020, according to official data.

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

Law Columbia

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. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 percent of GDP in 2025 as the share of fuel consumption in emerging markets (where price gaps are generally larger) continues to climb.” trillion or 6.8 To be blunt, in a world at great risk from the burning of fossil fuels, this is bordering on insanity.

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Debt-for nature-swaps – one fix for two crises?

HumanNature

Guest Post by Milena Dehn , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. However, debt-for-nature swaps are not a new tool and it seems worthwhile to revisit how this tool has been used to tackle the debt crisis and increasing deforestation in the 1980s. 2020) explicitly discuss the potential of debt-for-climate swaps.

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. This financial instrument is essential to controlling deforestation in Amazonia. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

SIDS make up about 1% of the world’s population and face similar economic, social and environmental challenges due to factors including their geographical location, reliance on natural resources and limited industrial activities (Thomas, 2020). Figure 1: Map showing small island developing states (SIDS), with the Caribbean highlighted.