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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.
A Greener Life
DECEMBER 5, 2024
By Kevin Damasio Under pressure after racking up Amazon deforestation records, Par state is now targeting the bioeconomy. It also has some of the lowest levels of development in the Amazon region. So, is the states economic model and its image as a major deforester about to change? The state expects to invest 1.2
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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.
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 10, 2019
During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable development to benefit Brazil and the world. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by.
Manning Law
JUNE 8, 2020
These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.
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.
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.
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