Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
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.
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Satellite imagery cited in a 2022 report indicates that from 2000 to 2020, Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s forest cover decreased from 45.9% 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. to 39.3%, or 6,103 km2 to 5,226 km2.
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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 percent.
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. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places.
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.
Law Columbia
APRIL 22, 2021
The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. Soon after, the state of Ohio joined the lawsuit, arguing it (and not the residents) had the legal responsibility for environmental regulatory programs.
Vermont Law
AUGUST 13, 2020
The dissent agrees with the Youth Plaintiffs that the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause protect fundamental rights—even those that are not expressly spelled out in our Constitution—because they are. Since the January 17, 2020 ruling, the Youth Plaintiffs, through their attorneys, filed an.
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