2024 Law Rainforest 
A Greener Life
JULY 6, 2025
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Pantanal wildfires In 2024, wildfires devastated 760,000 hectares of the Pantanal wetlands, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6
HumanNature
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Guest Post by Ashley Schilling Hazlett , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. “Causes of Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.” Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform.World Bank, Washington, DC. “Land-use change and carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon.” Margulis, S.
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Circle of Blue
JANUARY 21, 2025
Fourteen years after flooding killed more than 1,000 people on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines , Indigenous growers are restoring a natural floodplain to help protect and rejuvenate the rainforest community. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Fresh: From the Great Lakes Region Boundary Waters Canoe Area : As U.S.
Legal Planet
MAY 21, 2025
The new four-lane highway at issue would cut down Amazon rainforest “for COP30,” seeming to capture the hypocrisy of Brazil hosting the megaevent. Speaking of forests, massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, report Manuela Andreoni and Alexander Villegas for Reuters.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. To read more about the challenges of tipping points for earth system governance, see Manjana Milkoreit et al, 2024. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible. Governance for Earth system tipping points – A research agenda.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 3, 2024
Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.
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