Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. Deforestation fires emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Bill comes at a similar time to other proposed UK legislation under the Environment Act, which seeks to address environmental supply chain issues associated with deforestation in particular, by prohibiting certain supermarkets from selling products that contain materials sourced from areas associated with illegal deforestation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

Brazil (on deforestation and human rights) (ADPF 760) and PSB et al. The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. Two climate litigation cases are included on the docket on March 30th: PSB et al. Brazill (on Amazon Fund) (ADO 59).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 date is almost as early as the 2019 one (the 2020 date was pushed back due to COVID-19 induced lockdowns), showcasing the increasing impact of humanity on Earth’s biocapacity. decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. Image credit: Earth Overshoot Day. The drivers.

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Manning Law

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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled. Additionally, Brazil had committed to reducing deforestation by 80% by 2030 in 2015 – this provision was deleted from the updated NDC.

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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). Photo credit: Caio Coronel/Itaipu Binacional/2020. The Cerrado and the Amazon currently suffer from high rates of deforestation , worrying rural producers.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

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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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

Guest Post By Nathan Han, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. As NGOs pulled out of field projects and ecotourism came to a halt in 2020, experts worried that shutdowns would lead to the collapse of research and conservation projects, and unleash a spasm of illegal poaching, logging, mining and land invasions.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2020 – This week’s episode covers another deadly year for environmental activists, an Indigenous community in Canada celebrating the arrival of clean drinking water, and the risk of flooding throughout the United States. But on the river’s edge, safety has often required sacrifice. ON THE RADAR.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. The GBF is also a sequel to the 2020 Aichi targets , none of which have been fully met.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

above the average temperature for the same month in 1991-2020, Copernicus said, as climate change pushes global temperatures to new records and short-term weather patterns also drive temperature movements. Globally, June was just over 0.5C in fact, the covid pandemic saw a large increase of such subsidies.

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Frontiers

JULY 27, 2022

When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Deforestation also releases millions of tons of stored carbon, disrupting our already fragile climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

June 2023 was the hottest June on record, with the majority of locations around the world experiencing temperatures much higher than in recent decades (1991-2020). Wildfires have been burning intensely across Canada, impacting air quality across a vast area, including in the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 7, 2020

Click here for PDF Version of this letter July 2, 2020 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Via Facebook, Twitter, and email Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, I am writing to inform you that Facebook has inappropriately censored a scientifically accurate article that I wrote and Zero Hedge, Quillette, Environmental Progress, and other web sites reprinted.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since the January 17, 2020 ruling, the Youth Plaintiffs, through their attorneys, filed an. with the Ninth Circuit on March 2, 2020. The Colombian youth plaintiffs argued before the Constitutional Court that record rapid deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2015 and 2016. In the case of the Ninth Circuit, en banc.

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Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

In fact, the market is expected to grow from $886m in 2020 to $2.5bn in 2027, according to the firm Marketwatch. By 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy vehicle had broken the $1/ kg barrier. Indeed, the global satellite internet market, which was worth $2.93bn in 2020, is projected to rise to $18.59bn by 2030.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

Panel discussions centered around implementing innovative financing mechanisms, leveraging carbon markets for Indigenous empowerment, and executing jurisdiction-scale programs to combat deforestation while supporting sustainable livelihoods.

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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]. 4) Global witness (July 2020) – Defending tomorrow: [link]. (5) 5) Global witness (December 2020) – Beef, Banks and the Brazilian Amazon: [link]. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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. But a request for an amendment to this bill is seeking to extend the deadline to 2035.

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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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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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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Guest Post By Kristin Davis, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. And both beef production and growing soy to support it have caused severe deforestation in biodiversity-rich areas like the Amazon 2. Both are recent attempts to create a “meat-like” but vegetarian alternative to beef hamburgers.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

MS: Have we been too focused on climate too much when we should have focused on deforestation and the expansion of agriculture into forests? Climate change isn’t, or hasn’t been up to now, a risk of pandemic risk; land-use change and deforestation have been. Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health. I think so. Yes, that’s the term.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

On land, proposals to plant trees and develop bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) are seen as competing with global food security and possibly worsening deforestation. A separate report , published in 2020 by the Energy Futures Initiative, suggested a total US budget of $2.5

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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. The British think-tank Sandbag claimed the deforestation induced by wood’s high demand will cancel out the benefit of not burning coal, thus boosting climate change rather than mitigating it. Solar and wind.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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 ). In Future Generations v. Relevance for future claims.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Parties submitted their first NDCs for the 2015 Paris meeting, and most submitted an update for 2020, but the schedule thereafter was not fully agreed. target; The US-China bilateral declaration , including undertakings to cut emissions of methane and CO2, expand climate finance, and adopt other measures to pursue the Paris 1.5°C

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

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

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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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