Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. The consequences of peace and armed conflict for deforestation depend on the location, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Coca farms and cattle ranching boost deforestation.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro. In Future Generations v.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause more climate warming emissions than the global transportation sector , and deforestation rates have increased despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here. Background on the GCF Task Force.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Observed Past Rise.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The rate of deforestation has since slowed, but it is still of major concern. Timber smuggling is another major cause of deforestation in the region. EPAAJK’s State of the Environment 2018 report states that the average maximum temperature in Pakistan-administered Kashmir increased from 25C to 27C between 1962 and 2013.

Deforestation

Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). 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’. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case. Let’s just assume it is wrong”?

Ocean

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.

Deforestation

Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2018, a group of young plaintiffs filed a special constitutional claim called tutela alleging that their fundamental rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water were threatened by climate change and the government’s failure to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Colombia : Future Generations v.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The programme has ruled out using funds from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), as the lender has been closing its doors to financing coal-fired plants since 2018. Therefore, the government hopes to attract financing from abroad – though this, too, may bring challenges.

2027

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

While previous reports, including another by NASEM in 2018, have evaluated options for climate intervention, NASEM’s new analysis, funded by US non-profit ClimateWorks, takes a detailed look at ocean-based techniques exclusively, focusing on the six deemed most promising.

Ocean

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Gigatonnes of CO 2 equivalent emissions from 1990 to 2018. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. Indonesia is now the seventh largest cumulative emitter in the world, having emitted 41.59

Climate Change

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production. For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4].

Rainforest

HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Emissions, waste, batteries, asphalt, concrete, rainwater runoff, disturbing and killing wildlife, water pollution, and deforestation are examples of such costs. ABC13, 2018) So, what’s next for transportation in the U.S.? Both the social and environmental aspects of transportation systems in the U.S. One more lane should fix it!”

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). Baptiste, A., Martyr-Koller, R., Pringle, P., & Rhiney, K. World Health Organization.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This was supposed to be done by the 2018 COP in Poland, three years after Paris, but a few contentious matters were only resolved in Glasgow. Second, this year’s COP (finally) completed the “ Paris Rulebook ,” guidelines for implementing the provisions of the Paris Agreement.

Paris Agreement

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

Deforestation

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Risks to such species include overhunting/overfishing or gathering, toxic waste, a changing environment, deforestation and so on. It became effective in 1975 and in 2018 has over 180 signatories. The idea was to conserve and to increase population numbers - a measure that has mixed success.

Government

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

On May 10, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 72/277 (“Toward a Global Pact for the Environment”) , which calls for the Secretary General to submit “a technical and evidence-based report” on “possible gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments” at the 73rd session of the UNGA.

Law

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. Mikaila was injured in a violent attack when he confronted a group of herders encroaching onto a rice farm in Nguru where he was the foreman. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

Government

Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé. Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil.

Deforestation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé. Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil.

Deforestation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2018, we penned “The Case Against Nestlé” and launched the Nestlé Pledge: a commitment consumers can make to disavow themselves from Nestlé. Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil.

Deforestation

HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

Ecol Freshw Fish 27 , 1023–1036 (2018). Ecol Eng 120 , 249–259 (2018). The fields of fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, stream biology, and river restoration have recognized the value of wood in rivers for decades. The loss of large wood affects rocky mountain trout populations. Nagayama, S., Kawaguchi, Y. & Keller, E.

2008

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Similarly, the 2018 Carr fire burned through areas where there had been treatment of wood fuels over the last three decades. For 2018 data: FAO, “Suite of Food Security Indicators,” FAOSTAT, accessed January 28, 2020, [link]. [8]

Climate Change

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.

Deforestation

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.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

A snapshot of recent progress on wildfire policy On Earth Day 2022, President Biden signed an executive order committing his administration to “Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation.” This order increased the base pay for federal firefighters to $15 per hour.

Climate Change

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. 2018 saw the technical (if not the literal) extinction of the Northern White Rhino when the last male died in an African reserve. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself. Southern White Rhino.

Conservation

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court. the government to protect the Colombian Amazon from deforestation after a youth-led case put the government on trial. Win or lose, Juliana. is an historic case that has helped focus the public eye on the threats facing future generations and has galvanized the global climate youth movement.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a July 30, 2018 Order putting a temporary stay on the case, Chief Justice Roberts noted that the “striking” breadth of plaintiffs’ claims “presents substantial grounds for difference of opinion” which was a pointed admonition to District Judge Ann Aiken to certify the case for an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai’s largest wetland shown here in a 2018 file photo, is being filled in with residential towers and other construction projects. As of 2017 this increased to 50 percent, while agricultural lands were halved and deforestation expanded.

2025

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

452044/2018 (N.Y. The Oslo District Court ruled in favor of the Norwegian Government on January 4, 2018, reasoning that, “[e]missions of CO2 abroad from oil and gas exported from Norway are irrelevant when assessing whether the Decision entails a violation of Article 112.”. The attorney general opposed intervention.

2020

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb. 1, 2018; ruling Feb. 22, 2018); Wyoming v. The court said defendants had not waived this issue. People of State of California v. BP p.l.c. , 3:17 -cv-06012 (N.D. order setting schedule Mar. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

2018

HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University As negotiations stalemated in previous years, activists (and youth) protest for climate action (Source: Sarah Whipple, 2018). On November 1, 2021, the United States (U.S.) Does the U.S.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. On June 14, 2021, the U.S. The MPF further seeks up to R$ 85.4

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