Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says Mongabay PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:16 Thursday, February 29, 2024 Read more Maxwell Radwin In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain Mongabay PaulaR Tue, 01/09/2024 - 14:06 Monday, January 8, 2024 Read more Shanna Hanbury Thousands of traditional rural Guatemalan families are negatively impacted by the country’s fast-growing palm oil industry.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Adidas’ most popular sneakers linked to deforestation and modern slavery in Brazil Follow the Money PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:52 Tuesday, January 16, 2024 Read more Yara Van Heugten Adidas created the sneaker-trend of the year. TikTok, Instagram and the streets are full of Adidas’ Samba’s Gazelles and Spezials.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

As well as the burning of fossil fuels and other climate-causing human activities such as deforestation, the temperature records in 2023 were also boosted by the El Nino weather phenomenon. What’s in store for 2024? Scientists are uncertain as to whether these records mean we are heading for an even warmer year in 2024.

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HumanNature

APRIL 9, 2025

Guest Post by Milena Dehn , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. 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. Debt and Deforestation: A Review of Causes and Empirical Evidence.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 10, 2024

Jun 27, 2024, 10 am CDTRegister here. This includes de-linking their supply chains from deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, and human rights abuses. Responsible sourcing is becoming a central focus for retailers as a way to strengthen their appeal to consumers while addressing expectations from investors and regulators.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

A hundred or more years of deforestation, acid rain and mine drainage, development, and industrialization has reduced the hellbenders current range only to the most pristine streams. The draft 2024 report has an interactive report viewer that allows you to zoom in to your own address to see if the streams near you are impaired and why.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 6, 2024

Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says Mongabay PaulaR Wed, 03/06/2024 - 17:14 Monday, February 26, 2024 Read more Hans Nicholas Jong A new report highlights land rights violations, deforestation and pollution associated with a massive nickel mining and processing project on the Indonesian island of Halmahera.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

A recent investigation into forest carbon offsets run by Verra, the world’s leading offsetting certifier, and used by companies including Disney, Shell and Gucci found that 94 percent of offsets bought through Verra failed to reduce deforestation or were for forest areas where deforestation wasn’t happening anyway. Whole Foods stores.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The abandoned coal mines and stripping pits caused major environmental impacts such as acid mine drainage and vast deforestation, but she found beauty and joy in the untouched mountains and forests. She inherited her work ethic from her parents, who built small businesses and were active members of their community.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Globally the heating of the world seems to have no end in sight as April 2024 becomes the warmest April ever recorded since records began. It sets an additional new unwelcome record and trend with the past 11 months being the warmest of those months ever recorded.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Guest Post by Fawzi Khalife , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Emissions, waste, batteries, asphalt, concrete, rainwater runoff, disturbing and killing wildlife, water pollution, and deforestation are examples of such costs. Both the social and environmental aspects of transportation systems in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

11 For Picnic, Update On Conservation Projects [Posted: September 4, 2024] PA Environment Digest 4 In York County, Sept. 11 In Lebanon County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Offers 3-Part Webinar Series On On-Lot Septic Systems Starting Oct. 13 -- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna TU Chapter Meets Sept.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits. Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. Borders? –

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A report produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central finds that 2024 was quite a year for extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. The 26 events represent just a fraction of the 219 events 2024 that meet the trigger criteria of (WWA). Image credit: WWA. Graph credit: WWA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. Production capacity grew by 400 percent between 2019 and 2022 and based on announced and planned projects, it could double again by the end of 2024.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 2, 2024), [link] See also Global response to drought takes center stage at UN land conference in Riyadh, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Dec.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Guest Post by Alex Siggers , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Deforestation and intensive agriculture are driving erosion and mass desertification (degradation of land into desert-like systems), which puts pressure on soils and limits biological activity 3,4. Now comes the bummer.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers – The Guardian. ESC – Letter of Support for the DOE Foundation for FY 2024 (Sept. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug. Energy agency: CO2 emissions rise in 2022, but more slowly – Associated Press. Scientific Community.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

A snapshot of recent progress on wildfire policy On Earth Day 2022, President Biden signed an executive order committing his administration to “Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation.” This order increased the base pay for federal firefighters to $15 per hour.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments Fox PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:06 Thursday, February 29, 2024 Read more Thomas Catenacci NY AG says company's net zero goals aren't feasible considering its high carbon footprint Corporation JBS S.A.

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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. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Guest Post by Ashley Schilling Hazlett , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Deforestation not only threatens biodiversity and disrupts ecosystems but can also increase carbon losses and reduce the capacity for carbon sequestration (Macedo et al., “Causes of Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 16, 2025

Reservoirs in southern Spain were depleted by heat and drought in 2024. A multi-million dollar, internationally backed initiative will aim to sustainably produce cacao and coffee in Cameroons rainforests a practice that has historically caused deforestation. Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN The U.S.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Looking at a map of deforestation around the world, one notes that forests around field stations are either preserved or are being improved much more than around any other place. Field station networks as the future of conservation poster presented at COP16 on October 23, 2024.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy and Office of Management and Budget released their annual memo to agency heads regarding research and development spending in FY 2024, as agencies begin to prepare their FY 2023 budget requests. The monarch butterfly is not currently protected by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

At that time the vegetation on the island was remarkably recovering from World War II bombing and extensive deforestation. Kober from a Series of In-Person Visits and Delightful Conversations with Jack and Alberta Winieski in October/November 2024 [Posted: November 21, 2024] PA Environment Digest Prepared by Wayne W.

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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. Van Bavel, and Madalina Vlasceanu, Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action, 100 Journal of Environmental Psychology 102482 (2024), [link]. [2]

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 21, 2024

Instead, the page advocates regenerative agriculture, ending deforestation, and lowering subsidies for fossil fuels. On a related note, pledges 3 and 4 promise to “protect forests, rivers, fisheries, and wildlife habitats from corporate abuse” and “adopt a wildfire management plan to keep forests resilient and communities safe.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2025

Photo Circle of Blue/Dhruv Malhotra YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Many river communities in the Brazilian Amazon hit with their worst drought in more than 100 years in 2024 remain isolated, their boats and floating homes damaged. As of 2017 this increased to 50 percent, while agricultural lands were halved and deforestation expanded.

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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. NOAA NMFS – Pacific Island Fisheries; Annual Catch Limit and Accountability Measures; Main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 Bottomfish for Fishing Years 2021-2024.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. Ann Carlson: Anything by Octavia Butler , including “Parable of the Sower” a dystopian novel published in 1993 but set in 2024 California. population at the time.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

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] ). More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

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] ). More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief.

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