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Mexico y el Cambio Climático

Legal Planet

The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest. According to the World Bank, “Mexico’s geographic characteristics make it a highly vulnerable country to the adverse impacts of climate change. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.

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Highlighting Biodiversity: Spectacular Birds and the Amazon River

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. 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

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ESA Policy News: November 21, 2022

ESA

Diplomats also called to tweak the mandates of multilateral development banks and financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to better fund climate mitigation and adaptation projects. Negotiations to conserve Antarctic Ocean end in stalemate on many issues – Mongabay. NOAA – U.S.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

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Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. But it may also reflect the fact that among those factories that line the river’s banks is a Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of three in Tanzania.

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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

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Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. But it may also reflect the fact that among those factories that line the river’s banks is a Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of three in Tanzania.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. But it may also reflect the fact that among those factories that line the river’s banks is a Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of three in Tanzania.