Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

” Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker reflects on Whitehouse’s decade of wake-up calls regarding government inaction to address the climate crisis. In May I wrote about the BBC and other US and UK media gleefully, and incorrectly, covering Brazil’s apparent hypocritical stance of building a road through the Amazon for COP30 attendees.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Figure 1 from Milkoreit et al : A multi-phase framework for Earth System Tipping Point Governance Novel governance challenges Tipping processes present novel and serious governance challenges. Their effects are practically irreversible.

Government

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. The Chilean government declared an agricultural emergency in many provinces, estimating that rainfall is down between 62 and 80 percent in some regions. Help us,” he said.

Rainforest

A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2021

The City of Gold Coast is undertaking one of Australia’s largest ever beachfront rainforest restoration projects. If you’ve ever taken in the natural beauty of the Gold Coast’s glorious beaches or strolled along the city’s golden coastline, chances are you’ve unknowingly appreciated littoral rainforest.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Everyone north of the Dry River was urged by the government to evacuate, though political distrust and an intimate connection with their homes made such a move difficult. The destruction that remains months after the first eruption is evidence, residents say, of government failure. . Many remained as long as they could.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The court also ordered the State, considered remiss, to release the resources of the Climate Fund , a government program that aims to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In Mexico , the rushed development of a tourist train across the Yucatan peninsula threatens biodiverse rainforests and Indigenous communities, drawing UN attention. Al Jazeera reports that the Indian government has planned “multimillion-dollar projects,” likely for the ecotourism industry, along Loktak Lake in the country’s northeast. .

2022

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Those claims seem strongest to me when the preservation schemes are imposed, sometimes with government support, on local inhabitants. For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The high demand for balsa wood in blades for lightweight structural support has linked the wind industry’s demand to increased Amazon rainforest logging and balsa plantation farming. Governments can support research into, and companies can experiment with, new substitute materials for balsa wood in wind turbines.

Recycling

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Administrative reorganizations, whether in government, business, or the academy, are always difficult and costly, often taking years before the rearranged units gel into a new unit. More fundamentally, sustainability problems are interconnected and lend themselves to interdisciplinary study. Sending a Message.

Rainforest

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 18, 2022

by Bart Crezee, University of Leeds and Simon Lewis, UCL Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government is preparing to auction off a series of licenses to drill for oil in the Congo basin. This threatens to damage around 11 million hectares of the world’s second largest rainforest.

Carbon Emissions

Inhabitant

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It is impossible to protect the Amazon rainforest without involving Indigenous communities, according to environmental activists fighting for the forests. To this end, many activists say that to maintain a healthy ecosystem, the Brazilian government must protect the country's Indigenous people.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An Ecuadorian court rules against a mining operation in a protected rainforest. Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled last week that mining in a protected region of the Los Cedros rainforest violates the rights of nature. The rights of nature, like all the rights established in the Constitution Ecuadorian law, have full normative force.

2021

Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Should the crime be adopted, individuals falling under the jurisdiction of the Court could be prosecuted for acts meeting the standard, bringing a level of personal accountability that should significantly change the behavior of decision-makers in government and industry.

Law

A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2023

Juan Bay, president of the Waorani Indigenous community said: “We will follow up to make sure the government respects the decision of the Ecuadorean people. Optimistic environmentalists hope this is the first step in beginning to heal the Amazon rainforest which scientists have said it nearing irreversible tipping points.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. Q: What do you make of the reduction in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and what else should we know?

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Rivers in the country of Wales are being polluted with raw sewage and other contaminants, despite government clean-up efforts. Although the Welsh government has spent millions on river clean up, water utility D?r Heavy rains flood hundreds of villages across the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In Case You Missed It: .

2021

Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

Residents in a major neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria lack access to clean drinking water and say their government has abandoned them. Lagos Neighborhood Lacks Clean Water and Proper Infrastructure After Years of Neglect from Federal Government. We don’t have water to drink and we wonder if we have a government,” he said.

2022

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

These governments have developed jurisdiction-specific, regional, and partnership-wide efforts to achieve these goals, and this has culminated in a new call to action through what is being called the Manaus Action Plan for a New Forest Economy (MAP). Government and Public Policies. Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea —hosting an abundant variety of sea life and crucial habitat for about 25% of all ocean species. It’s true that most people could easily identify a coral reef. But did you know that just like ice cream, corals have two different varieties—soft and hard?

Ocean

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.

Rainforest

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

We can damage the stability of the atmosphere on both sides of the equation – by emitting too many greenhouse gases, or by reducing the earth’s CO2-absorbing capacity (for example, by chopping down rainforests). African governments know it too, and they are working on reining in illegal logging.

Rainforest

Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today, this online course trains TNC staff across North America, local government officials working with Native Nations and is open to the public for enrollment. TNC Washington’s Trustees Shape our Work TNC Washington’s board of trustees includes Indigenous voices that shape our daily work.

Rainforest

Frontiers

APRIL 19, 2023

Tigers used to occur over vast areas of Asia: from the Black Sea of Turkey to the Korean Peninsula and south through the rainforests of south-east Asia to the islands of Java and Bali. Tigers are Asia’s iconic predator and, perhaps, the most recognizable species on the planet.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

Operating since 1989, the co-op reconstructs rainforest conditions by planting up to 40 species, about a dozen of which they process into food products sold throughout Brazil. Another mine, which closed in 2018, was also retrospectively given permission to release water under emergency powers granted by the state government in June.

2021

A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen When talking about the Amazon rainforest, most of us think of Brazil. And in a green push, the government of Colombia has announced an ambitious reforestation target. Reforestation growth Its new reforestation target is nearly six times higher than that of the previous government.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

Global Footprint Network believes that the pandemic showed that governments demonstrated they can act swiftly, both in terms of regulations and spending, when they put human lives above all else. Let’s put our planet first.”.

Deforestation

Washington Nature

MAY 13, 2022

It runs through the Emerald Edge , the coastal rainforest that runs from Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington, and is the world’s largest producer of sockeye salmon and the largest producer Southern Resident Killer Whales’ preferred prey – Chinook salmon.

Rainforest

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. Indeed, human rights and climate change cases are growing exponentially. In Neubauer, et al. In Leghari v. In Future Generations v.

Climate Change

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3].

Rainforest

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion.

2014

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

For readers who may not have heeded our warnings and even clients we have offered counsel and advice to before they make environmental marketing claims or disclosures required by governments (e.g., Make no mistake, the New York State government is coming for your cheeseburger with this greenwashing case.

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2022

Last year, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a regulatory branch of the British government, published the results of a global sweep of green claims. Common ones include Soil Association, FSC wood, Rainforest Alliance, MSC fish, etc. So greenwash stinks, basically. Green’ or ‘eco’ don’t mean anything.

Rainforest

Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2025

Legally, the project was in a grey area: the Canadian government conducted an investigation into possible illegal dumping , but ultimately decided not to take any action. The ocean is governed by overlapping domestic laws and international agreements, several of which are nonbinding or lack enforceability.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. Most recently, in a 2018 decision the Court ordered Nicaragua to pay damages to Costa Rica for injury to wetlands and rainforests in the territory of Costa Rica. It sits in the Hague. It has 15 judges.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. The proposed program could survive potential legal challenges if it is implemented as either mandatory or voluntary by the federal, or a state, government. if implemented as mandatory through a state government. Supreme Court.

Deforestation