Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Indonesia has the third largest rainforest after Brazil and Congo. Indonesia has announced plans for a $20 billion program to expand clean energy. Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Brazil’s energy source is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world, with 47.5% Bolsonaro ).
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Environmental Leader
JUNE 21, 2022
IKEA makes furniture from wood that is harvested from rainforest nations. The post IKEA Focuses on Forestry Management, Energy Efficiency, Adding Renewables appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. With that, it says that sustainability begins at home — and IKEA’s brand and mission are aligned with that thinking.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The high demand for balsa wood in blades for lightweight structural support has linked the wind industry’s demand to increased Amazon rainforest logging and balsa plantation farming. The supply of balsa wood, on the other hand, is highly concentrated in Ecuador and Peru. By 2020, demand for balsa wood outstripped supply.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 13, 2023
Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. degrees Celsius (2.7 trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
This applies to food resources such as fish, habitats such as rainforests, cultural monuments as a mark of respect for their human interest. Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Conservation is not preservation, however, and the two are often mixed (3).
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 8, 2020
In a long interview last year, Nepstad was shockingly candid with me about the harms perpetrated by the environmental NGO community in the Amazon, including how their efforts had contributed to the fragmentation of the rainforest. Nuclear energy is that solution, Shellenberger has long advocated.” But his point is irrelevant.
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