Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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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.

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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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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

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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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. Governments have already invested trillions of dollars to stabilize our economies and protect the most vulnerable.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The “Rights of Nature” movement is fundamentally rethinking humanity’s relationship with nature, and it is gaining momentum. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. C above pre-industrial levels, for example by phasing out coal, stopping deforestation, switching to electric vehicles and investing in renewables. James McKenzie.

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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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. By 2020, the village has disappeared.

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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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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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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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. Source: Thomas (2020) As small islands, the sectors that are most important for economic output include, tourism, fisheries and agriculture.

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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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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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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 But then so do the benefits,” says Rau.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

MS: What do you say when governments ask what we should do? You could go to the government and say we need to to to the producers and somewhere the viruses. Any organization will say it needs more resources but we get good support from the US government. Governments need to act. Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A rights-based approach provide s the missing link between international promises and domestic action, and has prompted courts worldwide to demand increased ambition from governments. Indeed, human rights and climate change cases are growing exponentially. In Neubauer, et al. In Leghari v. In Future Generations v.

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. It has become routine to announce new initiatives in technology, social entrepreneurship, or philanthropy at COPs.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences. percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 trillion or 6.8

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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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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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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Interview, May 4, 2020 Dr. Josef Settele, Professor of Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research, Dept. For instance, when the Brazilian Amazon reached a peak of deforestation in 2004, strong command-and-control policies were put in place, carrying strong sanctions for municipalities and farmers to comply with legislation.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. The decision means that NSF opts not to rebuild the telescope dish at the Arecibo Observatory, which was destroyed in late 2020. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), global lithium consumption increased 33% from 2020 to 2021, due largely to battery demand (for both EVs and the power sector). Nickel mines can cause deforestation and water and soil contamination, such as in Claver , Philippines. Source: Hans Olav Lien/Wikimedia Commons. Manufacturing.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It has been a busy year for climate litigation and 2020 promises even more fireworks. Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No. Rhode Island v.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Grassroots movements and local governments continued to act, which led to current President Biden rejoining the Paris Agreement on his term day. 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 Biden 2021).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. 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.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities.

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MAY 9, 2022

These announcements are the start of a renewed commitment to and increased ambition on nature and people across the federal government. White House Fact Sheet: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation.

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