Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power. Parched conditions have gripped Brazil for nearly a decade.

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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. The post The Stream, December 1, 2021: New Testing Rule In U.S. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. In Case You Missed It: .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

29th of July was the day calculated as Earth Overshoot Day for 2021, the day which marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v. In July 2021, the Federal District Court of Curitiba issued an order rejecting jurisdiction and transferring the case to the Court of Amazonas.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Everyone north of the Dry River was urged by the government to evacuate, though political distrust and an intimate connection with their homes made such a move difficult. The government also fails to recognize Indigenous groups as having a stake in the region.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. 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% We grew up here.

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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. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). The federal government’s announcement in May to raise the red flag [indicating a tariff increase] has increased demand from rural producers,” says Kleber Rissardi, partner-owner of solar energy company Esco Iguassu. MW to 791.32 “The market is heated, with a very high demand.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The White House Council on Environmental Quality responded to an advisory panel’s recommendations for incorporating environmental justice into government practice. The spill occurred in November 2021 and affected drinking water on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. government water policy. Health Problems from Fuel Spill on O’ahu.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My daughter Sofie was born in April 2021, in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic and in a decade in which climate change is increasingly high on the global agenda. By Anders Lorenzen. We frequently reflect on what kind of a world she might grow up in and what the world will look like when she is 10…15… q8 years old?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

For the AMOC (and other climate tipping points ), the only action we can take to minimise the risk is to get out of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as fast as possible. That is in our hands – or more precisely, that of our governments and powerful corporations. trillion dollars , up by 475% above the previous year.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

For readers who may not have heeded our warnings and even clients we have offered counsel and advice to before they make environmental marketing claims or disclosures required by governments (e.g., Make no mistake, the New York State government is coming for your cheeseburger with this greenwashing case.

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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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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

From an economic perspective, huge investments by the federal government and state governments were required to make the interstate project a success, and additional funding is constantly needed to maintain the system working as intended. This was justified by the fact that this system generated so much money for the U.S.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Colombian youth plaintiffs argued before the Constitutional Court that record rapid deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2015 and 2016. Further, Colombia had already lost forty percent of its Amazonian forest and that the Colombian government—despite knowing of the repercussions—failed to prevent the vast deforestation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

In the first week of December 2021, the US National Academies of Science, Technology and Medicine (NASEM) released a much-awaited report evaluating the feasibility and cost of alternative ocean-based CDR approaches. In comparison, the entire US budget to tackle climate change in 2021 was $22 billion.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. government scientists just declared as the hottest on record. The post What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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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.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

On October 8, 2021, at the HRC’s 48 th session, forty-three nations adopted resolution 48/13 , recognizing the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right. On October 12, 2021, the CRC published its decision in Sacchi et al. dated September 22, 2021). Argentina et al. In Neubauer, et al.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. The Department of Defense also released its Climate Risk Analysis in October 2021, detailing international effects of climate change, but it fails to explain how the actions of the military exacerbate those effects. In total, the “War on Terror” released 1.2

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is despite the fact that emissions for coal – largely by China and India – have been the biggest driver of recent carbon emissions, accounting for 40% of the total in 2021.

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Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Richard Branson also blasted off on a Virgin Galactic test flight in 2021. Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. But space tourism could soon be open to more than just billionaires.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. This year, Caribbean leaders will use the conference to collectively advocate for loss and damage compensation for the impacts of climate change. Sources Cited: Álvarez-Berríos, N.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There’s a risk that companies or governments might co-opt academics, and proving and battling corruption is extremely difficult and dangerous. In Peru, a group of young people sued the government for failing to formulate and execute a national policy and plan to curb deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon ( Álvarez et al.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

The majority of the cases have been filed by the Amazon Task Force (ATF), established in 2018 by federal public prosecutors to unite the offices working to combat illegal deforestation in Amazonia. Illegal deforestation in traditional land. Illegal deforestation in traditional land.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences. trillion or 6.8 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Year in Water, 2021. Water Crises Take Center Stage By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 9, 2021. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. Too little. Too polluted. For years these compact phrases, mantra-like in their repetition, have come to define the world’s water problems.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. NSF: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics released the data tables for the 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This might be hard given that most countries are still governed by politicians that are hell-bent on preserving the status quo. Fossil fuels subsidies doubled in 2021 and reached a global all time high when they should have been phased out already.

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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. On September 8, 2021, a federal district court in New Jersey granted the City of Hoboken’s motion to remand to state court its climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies. 20, 2021), No. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C. Minnesota v.

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