Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation Mongabay PaulaR Fri, 11/17/2023 - 17:58 Thursday, November 16, 2023 Read more Dimitri Selibas A coalition of NGOs has filed a criminal complaint against several French banks for allegedly financing meat companies driving deforestation in Brazil.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Sometimes referred to as “Over the River” territory, or “OTR” for short, the island’s northern parts also go by the name written on a sign that juts from the sprawling landform’s parched banks: “Carib Country.” . The man who the police hand over has no recollection of his three months in jail; the trauma has blanked his memory.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

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 The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.” trillion or 6.8

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 31, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen A coalition of green groups led by Greenpeace has in a report, found that Europe’s largest banks have failed to stop investing in climate and nature-destructive projects. In addition, the authors of the report highlight that the European Union (EU) provides 9.4%

Rainforest

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By Kevin Damasio Under pressure after racking up Amazon deforestation records, Par state is now targeting the bioeconomy. The plan focuses on avoiding deforestation by valuing, restoring and promoting sustainable use of its biological resources particularly its standing forests as part of a bioeconomy. The state expects to invest 1.2

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

UBS and Santander’s ‘green’ bonds linked to deforesters and rancher accused of slave labour in Brazil Unearthed & O Joio e o Trigo PaulaR Thu, 10/19/2023 - 14:21 Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Read more Fernanda Wenzel & Olivier Christe The European banks UBS and Santander have raised hundreds of millions of pounds of “green” bonds that were partly intended (..)

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

By collecting specimens of uncommon birds on both banks of the Roosevelt River, they found evidence that different bird species may be nearly identical on either bank of a river, but their genetics suggest they are divergent. Populations on the east bank have a gray throat, whereas populations on the west bank have a black throat.

Rainforest

The Applied Ecologist

MARCH 3, 2022

However, a high number of shade-tolerant species are threatened by deforestation and overharvesting, and unlike pioneer species, they have no seed banks on the ground and are … Reforestation and restoration initiatives commonly use fast-growing pioneer tree species.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.

Climate Change

HumanNature

APRIL 9, 2025

Source: IMF IDS and World Bank WDI. However, debt-for-nature swaps are not a new tool and it seems worthwhile to revisit how this tool has been used to tackle the debt crisis and increasing deforestation in the 1980s. Debt and Deforestation: A Review of Causes and Empirical Evidence. Median of country group. Culas, R J (2006).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The programme has ruled out using funds from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), as the lender has been closing its doors to financing coal-fired plants since 2018. Raising these funds, however, will be the biggest challenge for the coal industry and president Jair Bolsonaro ‘s government.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.

2030

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On-the-ground research in states like West Bengal suggests that weak regulation and enforcement mechanisms allow deforestation to continue apace – in contrast to the rosy picture painted by the government. Banks fall in line to finance coal It seems that banks have also been drawn into India’s push for coal production expansion.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Her main project focused on establishing apiaries within the village’s forests, thereby reducing deforestation through sustainable, income generating activities for the community. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Policy from St. Edward’s University.

Renewable Energy

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4]. 5) Global witness (December 2020) – Beef, Banks and the Brazilian Amazon: [link]. Martha Jr et al (2012) Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil, Vol.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. The World Bank estimates that COVID-19 is likely to cause the first increase in global poverty since 1998. Making agriculture biodiversity positive. We make everyone’s lives better.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2023

Last week the central bank predicted it could lead to a 1.9% Pro-resource extraction voices argue that the strong economy these industries are providing is needed to protect the environment and eradicate corruption. Petroecuador has previously argued a ban would cost Ecuador $13.8 billion in income over the next two decades.

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Environment Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

Do your learning on well known and reputable websites like the World Banks climate knowledge portal , the UN, theworldcounts.com, Defra and the Office of National Statistics. Star with some internet research but be careful to choose your sources well. There are a lot of websites out there and many of them are inaccurate and dishonest.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

In Mexico , the Biosphere Reserve Sierra Gorda faces excessive logging, fires, and deforestation for tourist housing. In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. World Bank estimate; UNICEF estimate is 32%), with rural poverty twice as high as urban poverty. contributing. to the global emissions count. During the start of the century, Brazil had a.

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 9, 2023

The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested in recent decades. Banks including HSBC, JP Morgan and Santander have assisted the growth of both companies, with the trio having helped Minerva in share sales and finding investors on bonds worth US$1.4

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Environmental Progress

JULY 7, 2020

As background, my new book, Apocalypse Never , is a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, and other major environmental topics. It has been praised by a large number of the world’s leading climate and environmental scientists and scholars.

Climate Change

HumanNature

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The increasing concentration of these gases is undoubtedly due to human activities, including the combustion of fossil fuels, industrial processes, deforestation, and destructive agricultural practices. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are already causing severe climate change, and the worst is yet to come. But not all hope is lost.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

The central drama of Apocalypse Never is how climate activists and renewables advocates have diverted World Bank funding from cheap and reliable sources of power like hydro-electric dams, which would benefit the book’s main heroine, Bernadette, a small farmer in the Congo. The question is how.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate change and deforestation are reshaping the monsoon season, causing ice on the Tibetan plateau to melt , and affecting freshwater supplies to more than one billion people. Add to this the impact of the war in Ukraine on grain and fertilizer supplies, and there is a substantial risk that today’s global food crisis will persist.

Government

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Deforestation and environmental destruction are still a reality in many countries around the world. We need to stop wasting that much, find alternatives (give to food banks like it is now mandated by law in France ) and put the rest into biodigestors to generate heat, electricity and organic fertilizer. We need to do a whole lot more.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

1: Floodplain wood on the banks of the Embarrass River, Illinois. Wood was historically removed from rivers for transportation (think the Mississippi River), infrastructure, and safety, but we now know that the removal of wood can significantly alter river corridors. © 2022 Emily Iskin Art & Design.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Ancient Egyptian society began along the fertile banks of the River Nile which is buffered on both sides by hot & dry desert (8) which they saw as vital to their culture. Its continued expansion has been put down to increased carbon emissions, agricultural activity and deforestation. Australasia: Gibson Desert (Semi-Arid).

Conservation

ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

EPA begins work to set up $27 bln green bank – Reuters. Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers – The Guardian. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. Scientific Community.

2022

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

should directly and through the World Bank and other institutions help poor and developing nations to modernize agriculture for economic development, environmental, and public health reasons. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] and around the world. 7] For 1990 data: U.N.

Climate Change

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. Supermarkets and banks can stop this. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

Deforestation

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. Supermarkets and banks can stop this. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-08-13 15:37:34 2021-11-29 20:52:34 The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts 1 Comment / June 2, 2021 Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop. Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill includes $60 billion for environmental justice, $3 billion for climate justice block grants and $27 billion for a new federal green bank. Logging and deforestation threaten the species in its winter habitat in Mexico and California as well as pesticides and agriculture across the species’ range and climate change.

2022

ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief. IPBES also welcomes recommendations of individuals, communities, organizations and networks that could engage in the development of the assessments as reviewers or contributing authors. The deadline for the call is May 8, 2023.

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