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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30, Brazil’s evolving environmental strategies will play a crucial role in shaping global discussions on sustainability, climate change, and conservation efforts. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6%

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Trump 2.0, Day One: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Examining the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Although loopholes exist, such as dividing the farm into multiple smaller entities on paper, the OBBB takes it further, completely exempting farmers who earn 75% or more of their income from farming from the means test with respect to payments from disaster and conservation programs. Photo credit: Preston Keres, USDA.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is perhaps the single most ready-made tool for farmers to voluntarily tackle climate change. CSP’s Approach to Conservation Farmers and ranchers are important managers of our shared air, water, and soil resources, and CSP recognizes and rewards this critical role.

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How Green Tech Helps Create Sustainable Mobility in Cities

Earthava

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. Here are just some of the ways in how green tech can develop cities while conserving and preserving the environment. A great example is a biofuel.

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Response to the New York Times Essay “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests”

Law Columbia

In Virginia, where the primary source of electricity is natural gas, the emissions intensity of electricity is 679 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (MWh), not including other greenhouse gases. According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, utility-scale solar power produces between 394 and 447 MWh per acre per year.

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CARB Attempts to Contain LCFS Credit Prices

Clean Energy Law

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector. CARB conservatively estimated that the new LCFS credit cap would result in US$2.9 According to CARB, this provision is intended to ensure that the CFR program, which is entirely funded by the LCFS, remains solvent.