Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

Even if there were just (say) a 40% chance that the Ditlevsen study is correct in the tipping point being reached between 2025 and 2095, that’s a major change to the previous IPCC assessment that the risk is less than 10%. Let’s just assume it is wrong”?

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2018, a group of young plaintiffs filed a special constitutional claim called tutela alleging that their fundamental rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water were threatened by climate change and the government’s failure to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

percent of GDP in 2025 as the share of fuel consumption in emerging markets (where price gaps are generally larger) continues to climb.” trillion or 6.8 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 To be blunt, in a world at great risk from the burning of fossil fuels, this is bordering on insanity.

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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. Hellbenders are clear indicators of clean water, as they are very sensitive to pollution.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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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.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

trillion each year by 2025 and $30 trillion each year by 2075 if the status quo remains unchanged. Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. Economists and policymakers use SCC to analyze the costs and benefits to environmental policies since carbon emissions are not reflected in market prices.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

At this meeting it was confirmed that these would generally follow a 5-year cycle , with updated NDCs submitted by 2025 covering plans for 2030-2035, submitted by 2030 to cover 2035-2040, and so on.

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Environment Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

The effects of global warming will become irreversible by 2025 so now is the time for zero tolerance for ignorance! Focus on a small issue that they can’t really disagree with – plastic waste or deforestation – and aim to get them to agree to a small change like starting to recycle or using a reusable water bottle.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2

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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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Acoel

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Kristen Boyles The industrial wood pellet industry in the U.S. And inevitably, these plants lead to more logging.Industrial wood pellet plants in other areas have led to increased logging and deforestation they cannot produce the amounts of pellets they need for export using wood waste and sawdust alone.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Perhaps even more so than the methane pledge, effort will be needed to ensure the deforestation pledge is met. More of this difficult but important work is needed. Declaration on Forests and Land Use.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

An end to deforestation would protect ecosystems from drought and wildfire, as dense vegetation can absorb and retain moisture. In the Amazon and Pantanal Wetland, climate impacts were a forceful factor in 2024, with severe droughts and wildfires, which resulted in substantial biodiversity losses.

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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

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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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

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. One of the largest drivers of deforestation, according to one 2024 study , is the production of cacao.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2025

By Mac Dawson, Nature Educator, Audubon Community Nature Center The article first appeared in the Warren Times Observer January 20, 2025 -- Its about now we have a firm grip on the scope of our New Years resolutions. It is easier to maintain old habits than to adopt new ones, especially when the immediate benefits are not always visible.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2025

A combination of over-construction, deforestation, and extreme heat have contributed to the loss of trees and waterways in Chennai, India resources the city is desperately seeking to restore. As of 2017 this increased to 50 percent, while agricultural lands were halved and deforestation expanded.

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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. 2025, at 12 (forthcoming in Stanford Law Review ). 26, 2025, [link]. 26, 2025, [link]. 23, 2025, [link]. 27, 2025, [link]. [35] 817/2024, Jan.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Seven plaintiffs, represented by their parents, filed a complaint against the Peruvian state for its alleged failure to adequately halt deforestation in the Amazon rainforest by adopting concrete and effective measures under the National Policy on the Environment and the National Policy on Forests and Forest Wildlife.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Mission: Iconic Reefs 2022–2025 Priorities provides guidance on these highest priority actions. . Agribusiness giants tried to thwart EU deforestation plan after Cop26 pledge – The Guardian. NOAA: In a new priorities document, NOAA has identified the most immediate actions necessary to achieve the goals of Mission: Iconic Reefs.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Fresh: From the Great Lakes Region DeForest, Wisconsin: The village, home to about 11,000 people, will remove fluoride from its drinking water on March 7 despite opposition from the majority of its residents, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

The order also includes incentives to reduce deforestation internationally and promote economic development in areas heavily dependent on the timber industry. After the inventory, the agencies will develop policies for climate-smart management and conservation of old-growth forests. Read a fact sheet about the Executive Order here.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

A methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (business and biodiversity assessment) (2023-2025, [link] ). More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief. The deadline for the call is May 8, 2023.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Chesapeake Bay states are unlikely to reach EPA’s 2025 cleanup deadline at current pace, report finds – The Baltimore Sun. Jump in deforestation of world’s most biodiverse savanna alarms Brazilian scientists – Reuters. US judge blocks work at Nevada geothermal plant for 90 days – Associated Press. ESA Correspondence to Policymakers.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

A methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (business and biodiversity assessment) (2023-2025, [link] ). More News: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises in March – Reuters The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief. The deadline for the call is May 8, 2023.

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