Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. percent or even 39 percent with a commensurate increase in costs for California drivers.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity. Kalimantan, Borneo © Marc Veraat. On the Caribbean island of St.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By Kevin Damasio Under pressure after racking up Amazon deforestation records, Par state is now targeting the bioeconomy. The plan focuses on avoiding deforestation by valuing, restoring and promoting sustainable use of its biological resources particularly its standing forests as part of a bioeconomy. The state expects to invest 1.2

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). The water crisis and the consequent rise in electricity prices in 2021 is not an isolated episode. The Cerrado and the Amazon currently suffer from high rates of deforestation , worrying rural producers. “There are economic and social consequences for agriculture and cattle-raising.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Most recently, in February 2021, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality recognized the Canadian Magpie River’s legal rights of personhood through the adoption of twin resolutions — one resolution by the Innu and another resolution by the municipality. Province of Entre Ríos, et al. Pakistan : G.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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). A 2021 study by Bamana et al. Nickel mines can cause deforestation and water and soil contamination, such as in Claver , Philippines.

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HumanNature

APRIL 9, 2025

However, debt-for-nature swaps are not a new tool and it seems worthwhile to revisit how this tool has been used to tackle the debt crisis and increasing deforestation in the 1980s. In response to the dual crisis of debt and deforestation, Thomas Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Fund introduced the concept of debt-for-nature swaps.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Land was cleared for agriculture and forest products. However, land use changes, such as deforestation, have big impacts on the environment. They protect the stream from suburban and agricultural land use impacts. It was named for its forests, and its name when translated in Latin, means "Penn’s Woods."

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. This financial instrument is essential to controlling deforestation in Amazonia.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chelsea Gómez joined the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law in October 2021 and serves as a Graduate Research Assistant supporting research on City Focus Groups on Climate and Equity-based Policies. Prior to that she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, where she worked as an Agriculture/Environment Extension Agent.

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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

Guest Post By Nathan Han, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. The platform was built as a transparent tool to help keep tabs on illegal logging in the tropics and quickly detect encroachments by providing a user-friendly interface for GLAD deforestation alerts. So are you still able to do your research?

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. These sectors heavily rely on the state of the environment and are therefore affected by environmental change.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Actually, to The Guardian , such noxious use of public money actually almost doubled in 2021. Countries have declared climate emergency for seven years now but keep on heavily subsidizing fossil fuels use. in fact, the covid pandemic saw a large increase of such subsidies.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

And when the pleading describes that “as of 2021, the JBS Group’s estimated annual greenhouse gases were more than those of the entire country of Ireland” which ignores that one state attorney general is seeking to inject herself in the purchasing decisions of all American consumers buying the food produced by the company’s U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2021, the country produced 610 million tons of coal, half of which was exported, at a value of US$29.6 Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders on Monday last week hailed a major breakthrough when, on the first official day of COP26 , a deal was agreed to stop deforestation by 2030. trillion of global assets – including Aviva, Schroders and Axa – will also commit to eliminating investment in activities linked to deforestation. Enabling deforestation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

During a marine heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in 2021, it is estimated that several billion marine beings died. Animals often struggle to cope with the heat, especially during multi-day heatwaves, or in urban spaces where the urban heat island effect and limited shade exacerbate its effects.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. between 1984 and 2021, while the area experienced a 71.9% Land cover change in Yusufari from 1984 to 2021. Farmers recall their most recent poor rice harvests in 2021.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Guest Post By Kristin Davis, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. And both beef production and growing soy to support it have caused severe deforestation in biodiversity-rich areas like the Amazon 2. Both are recent attempts to create a “meat-like” but vegetarian alternative to beef hamburgers.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NSF: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics released the data tables for the 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates. The data shows that the number of doctorates awarded in 2021 dropped by 5.4%% from 2020 levels, the biggest decrease recorded since NSF started tracking this information in 1958. in 2016 to 30.2%

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors” Written statement provided by Michael D. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. land used for agriculture. [15]

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

Nonprofit organizations and private landowners have stepped up in recent decades to combat deforestation. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers 20 billion Dollars (USD) that Argentina’s agricultural sector is likely to lose this year, as the soy- and corn-producing nation reckons with its worst drought in six decades.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The patrol group of Indigenous farmers, teachers, and hunters spend their time working with conservation officers to track deforestation and report their findings to government regulators. Uganda has lost about 40 percent of its wetlands over the past two decades due to illegal filling for building or agricultural expansion.

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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. million in November 2021 for breaking COVID-19 prevention rules in São Miguel do Guaporé in the state of Paraná in Brazil. regarding the lack of safety measures for its workers.

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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. million in November 2021 for breaking COVID-19 prevention rules in São Miguel do Guaporé in the state of Paraná in Brazil. regarding the lack of safety measures for its workers.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

In 2021, EPSCoR jurisdictions received 12% of the NSF’s total budget. For agricultural research programs, the Agricultural Research Service receives $1.9 The National Institute of Food and Agriculture receives a $100 million increase to $1.7 2021 ) along party lines. Congress funded the Office of Science at $7.4

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Countries pledge to combat deforestation, cut methane emissions, transition away from coal and more. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in September 2021 an endangered species status review for the gray wolf in the western U.S.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. billion, a four percent increase above the fiscal year 2021 level. billion for NSF’s research and related activities account, an increase of $250 million above FY 2021 levels.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill. Landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore receives 2021 MacArthur fellowship. by Zack Colman, PoliticoPro, 10/6/2021. by Zack Colman, PoliticoPro, 10/6/2021. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology meets for the first time in the Biden administration.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

June 15, 2021). June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). June 14, 2021). June 28, 2021). June 25, 2021).

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

2534 ) to create a Civilian Climate Corps, expand agricultural conservation programs, plant millions of trees and to expand wetland conservation. The American Farm Bureau Federation is publishing an article series that focuses on agriculture ecosystem credit markets. A Proclamation on National Park Week, 2021 – The White House.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

The Sacketts are represented by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation and backed by business and agricultural groups. More News: US emissions up 6 percent in 2021 amid pandemic recovery: EPA – The Hill P.A. More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief.

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