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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

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.

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Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Kicks Off Annual Meeting in Heart of the Amazon Basin

Legal Planet

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.

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HotSpots H2O: Polluted Rivers, Scarce Water, Sinking Capital: Report Warns of Dire Water Threats Facing Indonesia

Circle of Blue

Jakarta, Indonesia in 2019. The report’s other recommendations include limiting groundwater extraction and reducing deforestation. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people

A Greener Life

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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Opinion: Food systems transformation critical to reducing emissions

A Greener Life

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. 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.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

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. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?

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Temperatures keep on rising globally. When will we act ?

Edouard Stenger

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Unfortunately, political courage has never reelected anyone.