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The EU-MERCOSUR Deal: A Litmus Test for Resolving the Growing Paradox of Development and Conservation

Vermont Law

During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable development to benefit Brazil and the world. by world leaders regarding the Bolsonaro administration’s inaction to prevent or stop the burning of the Amazon rainforest—.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

These incidents illustrate that ecotourism, despite its environmental claims, often disrupts ecosystems, damages fragile habitats, and degrades natural resources through unregulated footfall, undermining the very attractions it aims to preserve. Only if we care, will we help.

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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation. Extractive activities are based on the concept of sustainable development and require forests to remain intact. I wrote about some of those here and here.)

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Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Union of Concerned Scientists

And a report in October by the International Institute for Sustainable Development said: “Developing any new oil and gas fields is incompatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C.”. At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P.