Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
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.
Law Columbia
JUNE 16, 2021
The majority of the cases have been filed by the Amazon Task Force (ATF), established in 2018 by federal public prosecutors to unite the offices working to combat illegal deforestation in Amazonia. hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. Illegal deforestation in traditional land.
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HumanNature
APRIL 9, 2025
However, debt-for-nature swaps are not a new tool and it seems worthwhile to revisit how this tool has been used to tackle the debt crisis and increasing deforestation in the 1980s. In response to the dual crisis of debt and deforestation, Thomas Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Fund introduced the concept of debt-for-nature swaps.
Law Columbia
APRIL 22, 2021
In 2011, the first lawsuit using the Rights of Nature provision was filed by the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (GARN) and others against a construction company for building a road across Ecuador’s Vilcabamba River and dumping rubble into the river. Argentina : Asociación Civil por la Justicia Ambiental v.
Vermont Law
APRIL 6, 2015
The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” 1600s, but since then humans deforested the land, fished indiscriminately, farmed intensively, and the population grew. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act. Researchers at the. The lack of progress is discouraging.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Thus did the “Berlin Mandate” of 1995 (adopted at COP1) lead to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” of 2011 (adopted at COP17) lead to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Environmental Progress
MAY 21, 2020
For instance, when the Brazilian Amazon reached a peak of deforestation in 2004, strong command-and-control policies were put in place, carrying strong sanctions for municipalities and farmers to comply with legislation. A 2011 Nature paper found species-area model overestimate extinction. Is that the wrong picture?
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