Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. percent or even 39 percent with a commensurate increase in costs for California drivers.

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

A proposal to extend the road 94 miles through this Andes-Amazon “transition zone,” to reach the Peruvian border, is gaining political momentum. . The expansion of BR-364 would contribute to the surging rate of Amazon deforestation, which nears its highest point in over a decade. .

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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. Brazill (on Amazon Fund) (ADO 59).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The final two days included technical presentations, policy discussions, and political dialogue at every level. Efforts to reduce deforestation and its impact on the climate, biodiversity, and people – in particular Indigenous Peoples and local communities – are more needed and critical than ever.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Right now, oil companies have political power sufficient to preclude a change in liability that would result in oil industry obligation. Next time: ending deforestation. Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). This is a massive subsidy to oil companies and a significant source of methane emissions. Download as PDF The post Emergency?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. In a world where highly processed food dominates diets, deciding what goes on one’s plate has become more political than ever.

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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 name embraces St. Vincent as the people’s original home and celebrates a shared heritage that has withstood horrors. Many remained as long as they could.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation. Given the uncertainties, however, she said that the issue “should not be pushed into high-level political debates that would cause countries to adopt premature positions based on inconclusive premises and embedded in national political rhetoric.”.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled. Additionally, Brazil had committed to reducing deforestation by 80% by 2030 in 2015 – this provision was deleted from the updated NDC. Brazil (on deforestation and human rights ).

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

What lacks is the political leadership and courage. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Unfortunately, political courage has never reelected anyone. To bring some levity to this post and end on some lighter note, please check out Bill Nye on Last Week Tonight back to 2019.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. The co-author of a new report explains how most governments are overlooking a principal route to cutting emissions.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. These systems need political and financial backing. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily. I also went looking for something to inspire me politically.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily. I also went looking for something to inspire me politically.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. Many such strategies were developed by Indigenous communities who have used them for centuries.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation. Given the uncertainties, however, she said that the issue “should not be pushed into high-level political debates that would cause countries to adopt premature positions based on inconclusive premises and embedded in national political rhetoric.”

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

These two deals have the potential to improve conditions on Earth much more than anything in the rest of the NYT combined, but I had to dig to find it, because of other political events. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. I won’t be surprised if this is news to you.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability. The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. Even with an agency’s detailed justification for a global SCC, there are still constraints from the courts because "scientific and economic judgments are overridden by purely political considerations." In total, the “War on Terror” released 1.2

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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. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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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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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4].

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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. Additionally, approximately 13% of the world’s net carbon dioxide. 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. insulating the earth. insulating the earth.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

But this is politics. MS: Have we been too focused on climate too much when we should have focused on deforestation and the expansion of agriculture into forests? Climate change isn’t, or hasn’t been up to now, a risk of pandemic risk; land-use change and deforestation have been. Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health. I think so.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. developed themselves and consolidated their democracies. And vice-versa. President Bolsonaro at opening of the 74.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

Indeed, while climate variability and moisture losses on a global level are a major source of concern, human activities, such as deforestation, overgrazing, cropland expansion and unchecked population growth, are making an already worrisome situation even worse. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?

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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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