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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

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Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6% decrease compared to the previous year.

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What can we learn from EU’s battery regulation?

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By advancing a circular economy, it strengthens supply chain security, supports energy resilience, and enhances the EUs strategic autonomy. Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

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Analysis: After Trump cut funding for energy transitions overseas, could China step in?

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition It is worth noting, however, that the three countries are all key partners in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and so have plenty of experience in working with China on infrastructure and energy. There is also uncertainty around the remaining 97.4% Almost USD 1.2

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Why Energy Conservation Will Remain Crucial

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If cooling your house gets cheaper because you’re more energy efficiency, you might decide you can afford to keep your house even cooler. First, a clean energy system is going to need a lot of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. Bottom line: if we use less energy, we use less land.

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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets

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In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

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Boyd teaches courses and seminars on energy and climate change law, and developed a new course in renewable energy project finance , offered for the first time this spring and taught by Ed Zaelke, a UCLA Law alumnus and pioneer in the clean energy field. Boyd also leads the Ph.D.

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Singapore Publishes Eligibility List Under the International Carbon Credit Framework

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It is worth noting that the Eligibility List excludes renewable energy projects (with a few exceptions) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD/REDD+) projects or programmes in High Forest cover, Low Deforestation (HFLD) countries.