Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Indonesia has the third largest rainforest after Brazil and Congo. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. The baseline for measuring these cuts is the 2030 business as usual scenario, which would feature hefty increases in emissions.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC. Bolsonaro ).
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The high demand for balsa wood in blades for lightweight structural support has linked the wind industry’s demand to increased Amazon rainforest logging and balsa plantation farming. The company aims to make all its blades fully recyclable by 2030. The supply of balsa wood, on the other hand, is highly concentrated in Ecuador and Peru.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 13, 2023
Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. degrees Celsius (2.7 trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.
ESA
MAY 9, 2022
This goal directs 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments in environmental cleanup, climate mitigation and clean energy to disadvantaged communities. lands and waters by 2030. Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge – The Guardian.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 2, 2022
A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.
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