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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.

Legal Planet

For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Governors Launch Action Plan to Reduce Deforestation and Improve Lives in Forested Regions

Legal Planet

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

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How much should we worry about climate tipping points?

Legal Planet

In particular, should we be preparing to deploy climate geoengineering technologies? But it argues that the deep ethical, technical and political uncertainties and known risks surrounding geoengineering rule it out, at least for now. Instead we have to get serious about social, cultural and political transformation.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Two Cheers For CEQA

Legal Planet

I follow local politics a lot, and as far as I could tell, there was virtually no public debate on any of this. The idea that apartment complexes are the cause of urban deforestation makes no sense. Well, for the time being, the trees are safe. And in no small part due to CEQA. If Hall actually believes that, he should get out more.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Three River Communities, Worlds Apart, Tell Stories of Indigeneity in the Age of the Anthropocene

Circle of Blue

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. The Dry River separates two regions that have divergent histories. The name embraces St. Many remained as long as they could.