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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

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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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

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.

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

HumanNature

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). Climate change and small island developing states. Baptiste, A., Martyr-Koller, R.,

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

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.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment).

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Sustainable Development : This legal term described as thus: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" and tied to the generational equity and equality principle. It became effective in 1975 and in 2018 has over 180 signatories.

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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

10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. 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.