Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Full disclosure: I was one of those scholars, contributing to the section of the report on governance of tipping elements. And the report does endorse continuing well-governed research. But it argues that the deep ethical, technical and political uncertainties and known risks surrounding geoengineering rule it out, at least for now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

In his new role as Project Director of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , Jason will help direct a major sub-national coalition focused on reducing tropical deforestation and advancing inclusive, equitable, low-emissions development at jurisdiction scale. The GCF Task Force includes 38 member states across 10 countries.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These experiences were framed within the Manaus Action Plan , a GCF Task Force-wide call to action initiated earlier this year for additional financing and support to implement jurisdictional approaches throughout the 39 member governments of the GCF Task Force to tackle the climate, poverty, and biodiversity crises.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

Brazil (on deforestation and human rights) (ADPF 760) and PSB et al. The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. Two climate litigation cases are included on the docket on March 30th: PSB et al.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

They’re in that dangerous, dangerous place because of colonial politics, but of course they’ve developed relationships with that land, and practiced their culture there,” Palmer said. The destruction that remains months after the first eruption is evidence, residents say, of government failure. . The name embraces St.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By subsidizing such practices, governments can foster genuine food security independent of industrial inputs. Some critics argue against regenerative practices, citing lower productivity of these farms and the increased amount of farmland they can require, which could lead to deforestation, a driver of climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2022

The report’s other recommendations include limiting groundwater extraction and reducing deforestation. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The co-author of a new report explains how most governments are overlooking a principal route to cutting emissions. The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. It gives governments and other actors a toolkit to drive such food systems reform. .

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Environment, Law, and History

MARCH 25, 2021

The abstract: This article examines the sylvan political ecology of late colonial New Spain and the colonial government's attempt to address deforestation through the Council on Forests, the first body in the kingdom's history dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 12, 2023

A report sheds new light on a proposed dam near the Thailand-Myanmar border , where community resistance and political ambiguity have complicated the project. The Kenyan government is unveiling a $140 million plan to insure its livestock farmers against droughts. Still, farmers are not counting on this to be the norm.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

Panel discussions centered around implementing innovative financing mechanisms, leveraging carbon markets for Indigenous empowerment, and executing jurisdiction-scale programs to combat deforestation while supporting sustainable livelihoods.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. There has never been stronger evidence that we need to act now and together,” Hardaker added. Global goals. James McKenzie.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. A government agency acknowledging that the climate crisis is a global issue and planning to work with other nations to address that issue means the U.S. The war in Iraq not only destroyed ecosystems, but also elevated rates of cancer for those living in the area.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

stem from land cover change, such as deforestation, afforestation/reforestation, and wood harvesting. come from deforestation. Deforestation raises the albedo. The proposed program could survive potential legal challenges if it is implemented as either mandatory or voluntary by the federal, or a state, government.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. However, governments need to provide clear signals in order to direct capital where it is most needed.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

MS: What do you say when governments ask what we should do? But this is politics. You could go to the government and say we need to to to the producers and somewhere the viruses. Any organization will say it needs more resources but we get good support from the US government. Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Then things move on.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Coming out of the summit, climate campaigners accused political leaders of another compact phrase — of being too timid. The federal government declared a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which meant mandatory water cuts for Arizona and Nevada. degrees Celsius above what it was two centuries ago. Brett Walton. The funding is needed.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. A rights-based approach provide s the missing link between international promises and domestic action, and has prompted courts worldwide to demand increased ambition from governments. In Neubauer, et al.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 29, 2020

is not the result—dismissing the case on the ground that the court lacked the power to award the transformative relief the youth plaintiffs were seeking—but the utter dismay expressed by the judges at the existential threat facing the nation and the abject failure of the other branches of government to deal with it. Juliana v United States.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. It has also inspired landmark decisions in climate protection on a global scale.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill. Environmental justice communities already face a disproportionate amount of pollution emanating from political disenfranchisement and racist policies like redlining. California governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill – Associated Press. Executive Branch. International.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Together, these perspectives identify a number of existing issues that merit attention and, if heeded, might inform negotiations on the future of international environmental governance. . Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

Shortly after Biden’s veto, a federal judge in North Dakota halted the implementation of Biden’s new Clean Water Act rule in 24 states, writing that a pending Supreme Court case is likely to change the authority of the federal government under the Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the Sackett v.

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