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Analysis: Water crisis pushes Brazil’s rural producers to switch to solar energy

A Greener Life

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. Even the new church in town, which is under construction, will have solar panels,” May says. MW to 791.32 billion a year.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

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How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. Climate change and human activity are driving desertification, a form of land degradation which leads to vegetation loss and fewer water sources. . They are the ones that are feeling the impact of climate change.”.

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The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest

Circle of Blue

Mismanaged water structure and climate change — Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country to its impacts — compound the situation, Yale reports. According to Grist, Congress still has the power to approve these exchanges. Crops that were grown in ancient Mesopotamia — barley, pomegranates, and wheat — were still harvested.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE #130: FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S.

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

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On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation Priority coal decommissioning projects under Indonesia’s JETP programme include the 660-megawatt Cirebon-1 plant and Pelabuhan Ratu.