Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.” The US and some other countries have committed to end future investments in overseas fossil fuel projects, but that is not nearly enough.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

During the year as a whole the record was not just broken, but broken by a great amount as 2023 was 0.17C hotter than 2016 – the previous hottest year. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). A recent study co-authored by Flach published in World Development shows that deforestation, especially of the Amazon and Cerrado, increases the temperatures and reduces local rainfall, drying out the soil and harming agribusiness. MW to 791.32 billion a year. Taxing the sun.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Colombian youth plaintiffs argued before the Constitutional Court that record rapid deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2015 and 2016. Further, Colombia had already lost forty percent of its Amazonian forest and that the Colombian government—despite knowing of the repercussions—failed to prevent the vast deforestation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

A hundred or more years of deforestation, acid rain and mine drainage, development, and industrialization has reduced the hellbenders current range only to the most pristine streams. Hellbenders are clear indicators of clean water, as they are very sensitive to pollution.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016. Deforestation is one.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 31, 2024

Between 2016 and 2023 these major influential financial players provided a staggering 21.1% Hypocritical The report highlights that the EU ’s role in this is particularly hypocritical as it goes against many of its policy drives on climate change, stopping deforestation and the decline of ecosystem, nature and biodiversity loss.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided that the Atrato River in Colombia’s northwest Department of Chocó is a recognized rights-holding subject, with specific rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. Meanwhile, as WRI reports , Brazil and Indonesia have seen higher levels of deforestation. Now The Lancet has an estimate of the cost: 4.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A duty imposed for more directly attributable pollution under The Pact, such as deforestation or oil spills, may be easier to define and therefore to enforce on corporations. Compare the 2016 IUCN World Declaration on Environmental Law. But liability for climate-induced damage is complex, due to issues of attribution and causation.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. And, in 2016, the government awarded contracts through the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to two companies, paying them ?544 Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 2016 Nov 22;3(4):151161. 2] For example, on January 12, 2010, an earthquake struck Haiti near Port-au-Prince in a catastrophic event, affecting approximately 3.5

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

Water Resour Res 52 , 3910–3929 (2016). Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 40 , 598–615 (2016). The fields of fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, stream biology, and river restoration have recognized the value of wood in rivers for decades. Spatial heterogeneity as a component of river geomorphic complexity.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The British think-tank Sandbag claimed the deforestation induced by wood’s high demand will cancel out the benefit of not burning coal, thus boosting climate change rather than mitigating it. In 2016, EU predicted up to 10% of the European energy mix could be provided by wave and tidal power by 2050.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

with definite commitments for either work or postdoctoral training increased to 70%, from 62% in 2016 — the last time NSF reported these numbers. in 2016 to 30.2% Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers – The Guardian. Another key finding is that the number of new Ph.Ds

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 30] Roughly 40 percent of the planet has seen “greening”—more forest and other biomass growth—between 1981 and 2016. Between 1961 and 2016, pastureland expanded by an area almost the size of Alaska. [59] December 2016.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself. American Bison.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., 2016; Dumont et al., McGowan, J.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In October 2016, Greenpeace Nordic and Nature and Youth sought a declaratory judgment from the Oslo District Court that Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy violated the Norwegian Constitution by issuing a block of oil and gas licenses for deep-sea extraction from sites in the Barents Sea. Total (Nanterre District Court).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. states allow for a more moderate and permissive interpretation of fiduciary duties.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

In an unpublished decision, the Ninth Circuit said its 2016 opinion reversing a district court’s striking down of the listing of the bearded seal adjudicated the same issues and was the controlling law of the circuit. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. The federal district court for the Northern District of California ordered the U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Estenoz led Everglades restoration initiatives in the Interior Department during the Obama administration and received ESA’s 2016 Regional Policy Award. How Mexico’s Vast Tree-Planting Program Ended Up Encouraging Deforestation – Bloomberg Green. How Canada is trying to protect its last three spotted owls – The Guardian.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

White House Fact Sheet: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation. The Obama administration negotiated this agreement in 2016 and the Trump administration did not send it to the Senate for ratification.

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