Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 trillion or 6.8 To be blunt, in a world at great risk from the burning of fossil fuels, this is bordering on insanity.

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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. million hectares of forest were lost in 2020 and estimates for 2021 indicate up to 43% year-over-year increase in deforestation. The drivers.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: What do you make of the reduction in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and what else should we know? Jason Gray: This year has seen some really sobering news on the tropical deforestation front.

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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

Guest Post By Nathan Han, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. As NGOs pulled out of field projects and ecotourism came to a halt in 2020, experts worried that shutdowns would lead to the collapse of research and conservation projects, and unleash a spasm of illegal poaching, logging, mining and land invasions.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3]. 4) Global witness (July 2020) – Defending tomorrow: [link]. (5) 5) Global witness (December 2020) – Beef, Banks and the Brazilian Amazon: [link]. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Frontiers

JULY 27, 2022

However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Globally, 80’000 acres of rainforest disappear each day. These rainforests play a pivotal role in the Earth’s functioning and are relied upon by countless species and indigenous communities.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 22, 2024

The event includes discussions with local birdwatching group members, an opportunity to examine specimens from the Ornithology Collection and an immersive journey through the rainforest in the Under the Canopy exhibit.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Read More Other Key Sources Business & Human Rights profile of Repsol S.A.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This development also follows the HRC’s 2020 resolution calling on States to recognize the right to a healthy environment in their national legislation and to ensure, in particular, children’s rights (see more here ). In Future Generations v. Relevance for future claims.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

A plane flies over a football match at the Japan National Stadium, the primary venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Euro 2020, postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic, was co-hosted by 11 countries, and widely criticised for the climate impact of the resulting international travel. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2022

For Akilah Chatman, a Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) graduate from Drexel University, every day was a new adventure: climbing waterfalls, jumping from cliffs, exploring rainforests, befriending frogs and lizards, inspecting flora, gardening with their mother and so much more.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2020 – This week’s episode covers another deadly year for environmental activists, an Indigenous community in Canada celebrating the arrival of clean drinking water, and the risk of flooding throughout the United States. But on the river’s edge, safety has often required sacrifice. ON THE RADAR.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. In addition, the mining law, which was revised in 2020, ensured that seven giant coal miners with coal contracts of work (known as PKP2B) due to expire between 2020 and 2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3 Trillion Spending Package -- Bloomberg: Democrats Propose Tax On Carbon-Intensive Imports In Budget Deal -- Utility Dive: U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Russian police suspects Nestle of land theft RPA | October 30, 2020 According to the Kaluga region department of Rosreestr (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography), it was one of Nestlé's managers who was engaged in the transaction with individual entrepreneur Arabadzhi.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt canceled plans to reintroduce grizzlies to the area, stating that the plan would hurt the bears and people in the state. Brazil, Indonesia and Congo Sign Rainforest Protection Pact – The New York Times. Interior: The U.S. COP27 – Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing – U.N.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 9, 2023

The Global Witness report builds on the “ Grand Theft Chaco ” investigations released by UK-based nonprofit Earthsight in 2020, in which both companies were named. The meatpackers, however, have not made changes to their operations in the period since, the report’s author, Charlie Hammans, told me. billion.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health. Our consumption habits are driving pandemic risks and reducing pandemic consumption and get ready for the intensification of livestock production and need to do everything safer.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2020.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. In 2020, the Trump administration announced the policy’s reversal. Department of Agriculture which reintroduced road-building and timber harvest bans on 9.37

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 21, 2025

Fourteen years after flooding killed more than 1,000 people on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines , Indigenous growers are restoring a natural floodplain to help protect and rejuvenate the rainforest community. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Fresh: From the Great Lakes Region Boundary Waters Canoe Area : As U.S.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. 19-1230 et al. Chao , No.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Those five years were up on 31 December 2020, but the pandemic prevented many countries coming forward. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. All countries are now being urged to revise their NDCs before Cop26 in line with a 1.5C

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This move reverses a 2020 Trump administration rule which removed protections for around 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest, effectively re-opening these areas to logging. Torres Small represented a rural New Mexico district in Congress from 2018 to 2020 and is the USDA’s current undersecretary for rural development.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the country submitted nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2020 and 2022 , both were in clear violation of Article 4, Paragraph 3 of the Paris Agreement, as they were not more ambitious than the country’s intended NDC. GtCO2) each year on average, comparable to the de- crease observed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

This conclusion matches the conclusion of another analysis of ozone air quality standards released in 2020 during the Trump administration. In December 2020, USFWS made a determination that listing the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act is “warranted but precluded.”.

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