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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). Next time: ending deforestation. C of warming by 2050.

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Food and Farming Makes the Menu at UN Climate Talks

Legal Planet

I saw the topic of food and climate being addressed in 3 main ways: reducing methane emissions, mainly from waste and cows; improving food security, especially in central African countries; and regenerative agriculture with a focus on small farmers. Antonia Moure Richard is an LL.M candidate at UCLA Law from Chile. Download as PDF

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Opinion: Food systems transformation critical to reducing emissions

A Greener Life

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. Food production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste account for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Food is finally on the table of global environmental summits, but to what end?

Acoel

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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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products.

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products.

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ESA & COP26:: Day 2: Progress

ESA

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. Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming.