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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6% decrease compared to the previous year.

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. 1 (2020); Christopher Geczy, Jessica S. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. 122(1.1) (emphasis added). [5]

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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. Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200%-300%, shows new study

Frontiers

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. Deforestation fires emissions.

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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries

Union of Concerned Scientists

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), global lithium consumption increased 33% from 2020 to 2021, due largely to battery demand (for both EVs and the power sector).

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2020, a federal judge ruled that the Lake Erie Bill of Rights is “invalid in its entirety” based on the premise that the law itself was “unconstitutionally vague” and exceeded municipal powers. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.