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The Right to a Healthy Environment as a Catalyst for Urgent and Ambitious Climate Action at the IACtHR

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Regarding the appropriate target, the IACtHR highlighted the international consensus in the Paris Agreement on a temperature increase of no more than 1.5 °C Regulation includes defining a mitigation target, developing and implementing a rights-based mitigation strategy, and regulating the behavior of businesses.

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

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Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. is pulling out of the agreement altogether. When the annual U.N. delegation will take up much of the oxygen in the negotiating hall. negotiations are held, not inside. Acre, Brazil.

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Mexico y el Cambio Climático

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Rising temperature and lower rainfall will require a shift in agriculture, and impacts in urban areas may be severe. Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

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At a 2°C increase, heat extremes would more often reach critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and health: The impacts of climate change will vary regionally, intensifying rainfall and tropical storms in some areas but causing reduced rainfall and drought in others. According to the IPCC, 1.5°C I t's Up to All Of Us to Take Action.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

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degrees C threshold in the next decades which countries had agreed as the desirable target in 2015’s Paris Agreement. At 2 degrees C of warming, heat extremes would more often reach critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and health. In the report, researchers set out new estimates for the chances of crossing the 1.5

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

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From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. Agriculture is very important for Indonesia, and climate-related agricultural failures will have disastrous consequences for the nation.

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

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According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. While these targets were established voluntarily, they became mandatory once the Paris Agreement was promulgated as national law in Brazil through an executive decree.