Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. in a scheme to garner climate conscious customers. So, Letitia James’ problem is with beef.

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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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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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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which equates to the emissions of 257 million cars each year. The war in Iraq not only destroyed ecosystems, but also elevated rates of cancer for those living in the area.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Unfortunately, however, the region is also highly vulnerable to the damaging effects of the climate crisis, despite not being significant emitters of greenhouse gasses. As a result, human and environmental rights are being threatened in a context where defenders are constantly at risk.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. The communication cites a 2021 report from the Forest Survey of India which claims the country’s forest cover has expanded.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First and foremost, burning industrial wood pellets releases more greenhouse gases than burning coal. In 2021, more than 500 scientists and economistssigneda letter to President Biden and leaders of the major biomass-consuming countries , pleading with them to end this irrational carbon accounting system.

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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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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Shellenberger Founder and President Environmental Progress 2569 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94708 February 25, 2021 Good morning Chairperson Scott, Ranking Member Thompson, and members of the committee. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. and around the world.

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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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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

In 2021, EPSCoR jurisdictions received 12% of the NSF’s total budget. 2021 ) along party lines. Logging and deforestation threaten the species in its winter habitat in Mexico and California as well as pesticides and agriculture across the species’ range and climate change. 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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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, and Roberto Tallarita, For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain, 94 Southern California Law Review 1467, 1491 (2021). [6] This means that the leaders of U.S.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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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

Among other things, the task force will review how to apply the social cost of greenhouse gas to environmental reviews of projects on Interior-managed land, according to the order. A Proclamation on National Park Week, 2021 – The White House. The draft is open for expert review through June 10, 2021. 29 & 30, 2021).

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

More News: US emissions up 6 percent in 2021 amid pandemic recovery: EPA – The Hill P.A. Thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (transformative change assessment) (2021-2024, [link] ).

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Please join ESA in sharing lessons learned from the 2021 United Nations Conference of the Parties Meeting (also known as COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, and actions we can take going forward as a professional society Jan. to reduce greenhouse gases emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Federal Register opportunities.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

More News: US emissions up 6 percent in 2021 amid pandemic recovery: EPA – The Hill P.A. Thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (transformative change assessment) (2021-2024, [link] ).

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