Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. This has been attributed to a combination of increased law enforcement, restoring peatlands, bans on plantations and farming in sensitive areas, and efforts to combat fires, among other policies.

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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. Image: W Phumanee, WWF Thailand.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China. Some critics, however, view any economic incentives for forest preservation as being a colonialist interference in internal affairs.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

tenants disclosing greenhouse gas emission data to landlords under building energy performance standards (BEPS) laws and the like), reality set in this past week. in a scheme to garner climate conscious customers.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Many GCF Task Force states and provinces are actively revising existing laws and also adopting new laws, policies, and programs to advance a new forest economy. Members of the GCF Task Force formally launched the MAP during the opening ceremony of the GCF Task Force’s 12 th Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 17. Download as PDF.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When we think about people who are incarcerated, I would argue that they are on the front lines of climate change.” – Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. Climate experts say deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna are key drivers of Brazil’s changing climate patterns. ON THE RADAR.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3]. Businesses, financers and governments should be held accountable and laws must be put into place to prevent their constant climate-wrecking activities. Written by: Danielle McGuire.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

However, by internalizing the role of environmental law and grassroots efforts, there is a hope of success for Haiti’s continued reconstruction and long-term development. _. Marie Hollister (JD 2015) is beginning her third year at the University of Notre Dame Law School where she is Submissions Editor for the. By Marie Hollister.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One formulation that has been suggested is, “What are the obligations under international law of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially contribute to, serious damage to another State or State?” Once the opinion is issued, what impact would it have?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 27, 2022

” Peck in the mountainous rainforests of Ecuador. The APS is unusual among learned societies, according to their website , because their membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including art, law, literature, science and journalism. No, not until much later,” he says.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. In addition, the mining law, which was revised in 2020, ensured that seven giant coal miners with coal contracts of work (known as PKP2B) due to expire between 2020 and 2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. It prohibits states from enacting laws that result in a. against state laws that favor local products over out-of-state products and held these laws to violate the Commerce Clause. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With the largest rainforest in the world, the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and the most significant amount of arable land where food is produced, the importance of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against climate change is undeniable. By Maria Antonia Tigre, Florencia Ortúzar, Javier Dávalos.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. State of Karnataka , the Karnataka High Court ordered the handover of a restaurant building under forest conservation law violations. EcoPerspectives Blog The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2022

From a young age, Wallace explored various career ideas like surveying, law, and mechanics. Wallace admired the beauty of nature and treasured memories of an inviolate Amazon rainforest. A Young Englishman Inspired by Naturalists. A Lifetime Cause for Thinking Big.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

by world leaders regarding the Bolsonaro administration’s inaction to prevent or stop the burning of the Amazon rainforest—. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. contributing.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

the Nepalese Supreme Court found that the absence of a climate change law infringed the constitutional right to a clean environment, and that the right to a clean environment specifically requires the Nepal government to take climate mitigation and adaptation action. In Future Generations v. In Shrestha v. Next steps.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. The post Harnessing the Ocean’s Power to Combat the Climate Crisis appeared first on Climate Law Blog.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 27, 2023

The pipelines will run close to Dehing Patkai National Park, which encompasses the largest stretch of lowland rainforest in India and is home to multiple endangered species, including the western hoolock gibbon and white-winged duck, the state bird of Assam. An endangered western hoolock gibbon.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Government laws that are very opaque and poorly regulated industry and different communities and even if tightened up there is always a way around. Our consumption habits are driving pandemic risks and reducing pandemic consumption and get ready for the intensification of livestock production and need to do everything safer.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation. The petition also relies on the international climate change framework (the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, which have both been incorporated in Brazilian law). I wrote about some of those here and here.)

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. This applies to food resources such as fish, habitats such as rainforests, cultural monuments as a mark of respect for their human interest.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

For the plastic that remains solely on land, students from Yale University’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory discovered a . Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. in the Amazon in 2012 that likes to dine on polyurethane without the need for oxygen. How You Can Take Part. . . . A Sea Full of Trash: Tackling the Plastic Problem.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It is one of the reasons why there are such stringent food hygiene and safety laws. It is widespread in tropical rainforests where ants are prevalent and a vital part of the ecosystem. They cannot live without a host and sometimes, surgery is required to remove them although in most cases it will require simple oral medication.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We will enshrine in law a commitment to net-zero deforestation by 2030 – one of the most ambitious commitments in Latin America – and to protecting 30% of our land and ocean resources by 2030.”. It is a landmark commitment from countries to work together to end deforestation and all land degradation within the next decade.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

4083 ) to overhaul the country’s hardrock mining law. Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge – The Guardian. Mining: House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. Martin Heinrich introduced legislation ( H.R. 7580 & S. Among other provisions, the bill establishes a 12.5%

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. Department of Agriculture which reintroduced road-building and timber harvest bans on 9.37 million acres of the refuge often called North America’s “lungs.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2022

Bill Shuster -- Perdue Foundation Supports New Educational Duck Pond At Hope Springs Farm For People With Developmental Disabilities In Hershey -- Warren Times: Time Explorers Theme Of Warren Conservation District Student Summer Camp -- Warren Times: Second Grade Classroom Turned Into Rainforest -- PA Outdoor Writers Assn.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First Circuit Certified State Law Preemption Questions in Case Challenging Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading at Harbor. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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