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JBS fires indigenous worker in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for reporting precarious company buses, says union

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS gets away with it because retailers and banks are ignoring the company’s environmental destruction, criminal behaviour and corruption scandals.

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NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS gets away with it because retailers and banks are ignoring the company’s environmental destruction, criminal behaviour and corruption scandals.

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Walmart goes gigantic, launches Project Gigaton

Edouard Stenger

Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, made headlines recently as it launched its Project Gigaton , an effort to help its supply chain go green and cut by a billion metric tons its carbon footprint. . But Walmart is willing to cut its many suppliers greenhouse gases emissions.

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A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place

Edouard Stenger

According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers. gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year, representing 8% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. A total of 6.5

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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