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STATEMENT: Big Oil’s testimony on emissions reduction misses the big picture 

Enviromental Defense

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Climate Villains Called to Testify on Parliament Hill: 5 Things we Learned from MPs questioning Big Oil

Enviromental Defense

Recently, CEOs from five of the biggest oil and gas companies in Canada were called to parliament to testify about their failure to bring greenhouse gas emissions down, despite billions of dollars in annual profits. All the CEOs tried to evade this fact and the CEO of Cenovus even denied it, falsely claiming emissions peaked in 2017.

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Big Climate Win Down Under: Australian Court Blocks Coal Mine Citing Negative Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Law Columbia

This blog provides a quick review of the case and its noteworthy developments. The Department of Planning denied the Rocky Hill Coal Project application in December 2017, after reviewing the associated environmental impact report. An Overview of the Case. Gloucester Resources Limited promptly appealed the decision. Section 4.15(1)

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‘La Acción de Cumplimiento’ as a Legal Mechanism to Implement Colombian Climate Change Laws

Law Columbia

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). Law 1844 of 2017 on the Paris Agreement. The framework binds Colombia to international agreements, including the UNFCCC (Law 164 of 1994), the Kyoto Protocol (Law 629 of 2000) and the Paris Agreement (Law 1844 of 2017). of the national total.

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

A Greener Life

So Flix do Xingu, in the Amazon state of Par, is a place of superlatives: it is the municipality with the second largest annual greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, the second highest rate of deforestation over the last 15 years, and the largest cattle herd in the country. million head and a rate of 1.5 million) in tax waivers in 2021.

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. Sustainable Development of Water Resources. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Sports Organizations Buy Carbon Offsets to Finance Cookstoves in Low-Income African Countries

Law Columbia

Burning unsustainably harvested wood fuel contributes to approximately 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But the voluntary market could be on the rise, with a record number of issuances and retirements in 2017. Approximately 3 billion people worldwide still cook on open fires or stoves fueled by charcoal, biomass and kerosene.