Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. In 2020, the Trump administration announced the policy’s reversal. Department of Agriculture which reintroduced road-building and timber harvest bans on 9.37

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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. Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. 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. Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 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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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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. 19-1230 et al. Chao , No.

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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% Globally, 80’000 acres of rainforest disappear each day. decrease in tree cover since 2000.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008. While the country submitted nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2020 and 2022 , both were in clear violation of Article 4, Paragraph 3 of the Paris Agreement, as they were not more ambitious than the country’s intended NDC.

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Our Environment

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]. For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4]. Written by: Danielle McGuire.

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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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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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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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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

White House Fact Sheet: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation. This conclusion matches the conclusion of another analysis of ozone air quality standards released in 2020 during the Trump administration.

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