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Analysis: Can one of Brazil’s deforestation hotspots become a green leader?

A Greener Life

By Kevin Damasio Under pressure after racking up Amazon deforestation records, Par state is now targeting the bioeconomy. It also has some of the lowest levels of development in the Amazon region. So, is the states economic model and its image as a major deforester about to change? The state expects to invest 1.2

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Recognizing the Rights of a River: Challenges and Opportunities from Colombia to Colorado

HumanNature

And, in 2017 environmental and other groups sued the state of Colorado and asked the court to grant the Colorado river legal personhood with all associated rights. The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020). For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria.

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Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY

Vermont Law

The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 10] Mickens Mathieu, Spotlight on the law of September 21, 2017: to better address the challenges of the solid waste management system in Haiti, UNDP Haiti (Mar.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 12] Though pastureland and cropland expanded 5 and 16 percent, between 1961 and 2017, the maximum extent of total agriculture land occurred in the 1990s, and declined significantly since then, led by a 4.5 52] But mostly it is due to efficiency.