Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. Production capacity grew by 400 percent between 2019 and 2022 and based on announced and planned projects, it could double again by the end of 2024.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 date is almost as early as the 2019 one (the 2020 date was pushed back due to COVID-19 induced lockdowns), showcasing the increasing impact of humanity on Earth’s biocapacity. decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. Image credit: Earth Overshoot Day. In Brazil alone, 1.1

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A Greener Life

APRIL 9, 2023

The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested in recent decades. Asset management giants BlackRock and Vanguard were also found to have significantly increased their investments in Minerva between 2019 and 2022, rising from US$840,000 to US$4.8 million to US$8.6

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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. Khan says this is partly due to deforestation, adding: “This is a significant increase, and if this trend continues until the end of 2100, there is a fear of a further 3C increase.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

An end to deforestation would protect ecosystems from drought and wildfire, as dense vegetation can absorb and retain moisture. Research carried out by Climate Central found that climate change increased the intensity of most Atlantic Hurricanes between 2019 and 2023.

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Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2022

New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019. The severe wildfires in Australia, California, and Brazil in recent years have attracted the world’s attention to the threat of forest fires. However, there is a lack of clear and consistent global data on the types and drivers of forest fires.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

Worldwide, the cost of utility scale solar fell 82% between 2010 and 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), driven down by cheaper manufacturing costs in China, which accounts for around 72% of global production. “Since 2019, our electricity bill has gone up a lot because of the tariff hike.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2019, the city of Toledo, Ohio adopted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a municipal law that gave the lake rights of its own. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. Argentina : Asociación Civil por la Justicia Ambiental v. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the 2019-2022 period compared to the three previous years. Check out Circle of Blue’s drought coverage for more of the biggest headlines out of the drying American West. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers. 56 Percent.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2023

President Gustavo Petro, who has been in power since August last year, has pledged to lead an ambitious green agenda focused on reduced deforestation , a transition away from fossil fuels and protection of water resources. By 2026 it wants to reforest an area of 750,000 hectares.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

This is slightly more than the combined emissions from global transport and residential energy use in 2019 and is equivalent to at least 20% of the cut needed by 2050 to prevent catastrophic climate change. billion tonnes a year. Similarly, none of the plans assessed includes specific measures to promote healthy and sustainable diets. .

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

In the first in-person Frontiers Forum event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, Frontiers has announced an exceptional line up of speakers, renowned researchers, and influencers. Photo credit: Frontiers The Frontiers Forum will take place at the Fairmount Palace in Montreux, Switzerland, from April 27 to April 29.

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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. to recognize the eastern hellbender as Pennsylvania's state amphibian, drafting the bill that eventually was passed in 2019.

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JULY 30, 2021

For example, a 2019 report in The Lancet medical journal recommends Americans dramatically reduce the amount of beef and lamb they consume, for their own health and the health of the planet. Land use, water use and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming all affect the environment. Courtesy Anne Sprat/Unsplash.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

Indeed, while climate variability and moisture losses on a global level are a major source of concern, human activities, such as deforestation, overgrazing, cropland expansion and unchecked population growth, are making an already worrisome situation even worse.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center. In Brazil , the Chinese state-owned enterprise PowerChina is investing in the Pedras Altas plant in Rio Grande do Sul, which will have a capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). billion – was in coal.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Deforestation and intensive agriculture are driving erosion and mass desertification (degradation of land into desert-like systems), which puts pressure on soils and limits biological activity 3,4. Credit: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change & Land, Chapter 3, 2019 What role do we have in this mess? Now comes the bummer.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. To bring some levity to this post and end on some lighter note, please check out Bill Nye on Last Week Tonight back to 2019. Globally, June was just over 0.5C

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Brazil’s Amazon: Deforestation ‘surges to 12-year high’ Retrieved from [link]. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Shukman, D. O’Shea, N. Retrieved from [link]. Retrieved from [link]. Barkley, A.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4]. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5]. Unfortunately guarding their land comes at extreme costs.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

was brought by 16 children and youth against five States (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey) in 2019. In Future Generations v. The Special Rapporteur should be appointed in the coming months. Decision by the CRC. Sacchi et al. Argentina et al.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. It means investments and policies that focus on investments in “nature’s infrastructure” for climate regulation: our wetlands, forests, mangroves and more besides.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. 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. Hydropower.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

Earth Surf Process Landf 44 , 624–640 (2019). The fields of fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, stream biology, and river restoration have recognized the value of wood in rivers for decades. Gurnell, J. & & Mardhiah, U. Understanding processes of island development on an island braided river over timescales from days to decades.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

United Nations General Debate – New York, September 24, 2019. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. The free market, concessions and privatization are already a reality in Brazil.”. President Bolsonaro at opening of the 74.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On-the-ground research in states like West Bengal suggests that weak regulation and enforcement mechanisms allow deforestation to continue apace – in contrast to the rosy picture painted by the government.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 27, 2023

In the Doomdooma Forest Division, Chetry said that during a study in 2019-20, “we could not sight a single gibbon in eight reserve forests out of the 20 reserve forests in the division”.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Perhaps even more so than the methane pledge, effort will be needed to ensure the deforestation pledge is met. More of this difficult but important work is needed. Declaration on Forests and Land Use.

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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. arm of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA JBSS3.SA

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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. arm of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA JBSS3.SA

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers – The Guardian. She is a founding member of ESA’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge section and was a plenary speaker at the 2019 Annual Meeting. Energy agency: CO2 emissions rise in 2022, but more slowly – Associated Press. Scientific Community.

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