Swapping fifth of meat for microbial protein could halve deforestation
New Scientist
MAY 4, 2022
Even a modest shift from ruminant meat to microbial proteins could cut deforestation and carbon emissions 56 per cent by 2050
Most Agribusinesses and Banks Involved With ‘Forest Risk’ Commodities Are Falling Down on Deforestation, Global Canopy Reports
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 12, 2022
They haven’t made commitments to stop deforestation related to beef, soy, palm oil and timber, and many of those that have aren’t following through.
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New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All
Inside Climate News
MAY 4, 2022
Studies show international efforts to cut carbon emissions by reducing deforestation are badly underfunded, riddled with complex problems and overwhelmed by industries that continue to cut down trees.
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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation
A Greener Life
JANUARY 18, 2022
During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation.
There's a huge flaw in the EU's draft net-zero carbon emissions plan
New Scientist
APRIL 1, 2022
The European Union’s plan to achieve climate neutrality could lead to more deforestation because it ignores what happens when more land is used to produce bioenergy
How to Make Trees Worth More Standing Than Cut Down
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Only the Congo, however, is still a net carbon sink. If trading mechanisms allow carbon emissions from one area to be offset by afforestation or reduced rates of deforestation, the climate is better off. The bottom line is that roughly 99% of carbon emissions are unregulated or not offset at all.
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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mexico y el Cambio Climático
Legal Planet
MAY 5, 2022
Mexico’s carbon emissions are about the same as those of Texas, the highest-emitting US state. Per capita emissions, however, are far lower, given Mexico’s much larger population. Unfortunately, there are doubts about how much progress Mexico will make in cutting emissions.
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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia
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.
A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. percent or even 39 percent with a commensurate increase in costs for California drivers.
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Why Energy Conservation Will Remain Crucial
Legal Planet
APRIL 11, 2022
One reason to save energy is to limit carbon emissions from the energy we use. But energy conservation is important for reasons that go beyond the direct effect on emissions. If we switch to renewables, we won’t need to worry about saving energy. Bottom line: if we use less energy, we use less land.
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Earth Overshoot Day: we have just exceeded what Earth can regenerate in a year
A Greener Life
AUGUST 2, 2021
carbon footprint increase over last year, as well as the 0.5% decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. million hectares of forest were lost in 2020 and estimates for 2021 indicate up to 43% year-over-year increase in deforestation. The notable drivers of consumption is the 6.6%
Climate crisis calls world’s top scientists to Montreux
Frontiers
MARCH 20, 2023
Devastating forest fires, record-breaking carbon emissions, and the warmest ocean temperatures on record are just a few of the issues we’ve seen escalate, alongside rising deforestation, pollution, and plastic production. Frontiers is offsetting event-related carbon emissions.
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IEA v. Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm.
A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled. Overall, since 2010, when the NPCC was regulated, Brazil increased emissions by 23.2%, and therefore did not alter its emissions trajectory. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).
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The Giant Company Donates $1 Million To Harrisburg University To Support New Center For Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2022
A more sustainable shopping basket helps reduce carbon emission, improve soil health, mitigate deforestation and increase biodiversity, which in turn will heal our planet. “Doing the right thing for our planet is a huge responsibility and also a huge opportunity,” said Bertram. “A
Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.
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ESA & COP26:: Day 2: Progress
ESA
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. Will countries agree to make serious new cuts in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning?
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Business and industry must rise to the challenge of climate change
Physics World
OCTOBER 27, 2021
The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.
The alliance of carbon-negative countries
A Greener Life
JANUARY 13, 2023
Britain is working towards the long-term goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This small handful of countries is part of an elite club, the Alliance of Carbon-Negative Countries. In the next decade, emissions are expected to increase. By Jeremy Williams.
Explainer: Why does chocolate have a high carbon footprint?
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Our response to climate change is a balancing act: we work to reduce carbon emissions on the one hand and to enhance nature’s ability to absorb carbon on the other. Cocoa happens to grow best on forested mountainsides, and it has been a driver of deforestation in Peru, Ghana, Indonesia and a handful of other places.
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Does Pollution End at U.S. Borders? – Why U.S. Military Pollution is a Reason for Agencies to Implement the Global Social Cost of Carbon
Vermont Law
JULY 31, 2023
In other words, it is the quantitative benefit of reducing one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Economists and policymakers use SCC to analyze the costs and benefits to environmental policies since carbon emissions are not reflected in market prices. Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S.
Major developments for global climate litigation: the Human Rights Council recognizes the right to a healthy environment and the Committee on the Rights of the Child publishes its decision in an international youth climate case
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 12, 2021
While the CRC rejected the youth petitioners’ claim as inadmissible, it found that each State has duties to address climate harm outside its own territory, and therefore can be held responsible for the negative impact of its carbon emissions on the rights of children within and outside its territory. In Future Generations v.
IPCC report urges for action to limit global warming to 1.5C
Edouard Stenger
OCTOBER 29, 2018
If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising. Deforestation and environmental destruction are still a reality in many countries around the world. We need to do a whole lot more. Is it hopeless?
Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. The intense wildfires that have been seen in Southern Europe and the Western part of North America are emitting a lot of carbon dioxide. Other feedback loops are starting to kick in as well.
The EU-MERCOSUR Deal: A Litmus Test for Resolving the Growing Paradox of Development and Conservation
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 10, 2019
But, the idea of a shared benefit—both to the world and Brazil—is a paradox developing and developed nations have struggled with concerning their global commitment to reduce overall carbon emissions because, as Bolsonaro implied during his remarks, overly restrictive environmental regulations could impair a nation’s economic growth and development.
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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The root cause of the issue is global climate change, which can only be addressed by rapidly curbing carbon emissions. For example, restoring trees along deforested riverbanks can shade the ecosystem and cool the river during extreme heat. The most straightforward solution is to limit overfishing.
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Deserts as Ecosystems and Why They Need Protecting
Environmental Science
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. This will be problematic while carbon emissions continue to increase, and world governments will need to do something about it in the future. The discovery was made when researching bacteria in the desert.
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Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation:
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The root cause of the issue is global climate change, which can only be addressed by rapidly curbing carbon emissions. Restoring trees along deforested riverbanks, for example, can shade the ecosystem and cools the river during extreme heat. The most straightforward solution is to limit overfishing.
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Reaction to Canada’s 2023 Budget from Environmental Defence Experts
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 28, 2023
These investments must address the most critical threats facing Canada’s fresh waters, including nuisance and toxic algae blooms, toxic chemical and plastic pollution, deforestation, and wetland loss. It is very disappointing to see that this budget does not include much-needed funds to support transit systems now.
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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term
Environmental Science
JULY 22, 2018
Deforestation. Cutting down tree canopies without replacing it passively increases climate change by the simple fact that trees and other vegetation are carbon sinks (15). Consensus only escalated and today, 97% of research data suggests an almost certain correlation between human activity and the present warming (36).
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Despite progress, COP27 is yet another failure
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
15 years later, one could say that if success may have been achieved, it’s hard to be triumphant, given how fast our carbon emissions are still rising : However, official pledges to slash greenhouse gases emissions are increasing, and thus, there is hope the world could collectively achieve limiting the temperature rise. .
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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare
Environmental Progress
JUNE 29, 2020
Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.
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The Year in Water, 2021
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Vincent, Borneo, and Alaska, decades of displacement, deforestation, and warming have defined a harrowing Anthropogenic Epoch. Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped 0 Comments / August 3, 2021 U.S. Christian Thorsberg. Laura Gersony.
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Conservation: History and Future
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself. Energy Conservation.
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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. The idea was to conserve and to increase population numbers - a measure that has mixed success.
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Snopes' Alex Kasprak Makes 17 False And Misleading Claims About Apocalypse Never and Misrepresents the Best-available Science
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 8, 2020
In 2019, after my article for Forbes upon which the Amazon chapter in Apocalypse Never is based, Nepstad complained to Mongabay , an activist web site, and again to Kasprak, that I didn’t write about the risk of deforestation leading to “savanification,” which is the transformation of rainforest into a savanna. The question is how.
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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
A duty imposed for more directly attributable pollution under The Pact, such as deforestation or oil spills, may be easier to define and therefore to enforce on corporations. About 22 percent of global CO2 emissions are associated with exported goods. Europe, and Japan).
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52 September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit’s January 2021 decision vacating the U.S. The petitions were distributed for the justices’ conference of September 27. West Virginia v.
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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
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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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 39] If everyone followed a vegan diet, which excludes not only meat but also eggs and dairy products, land-based emissions could be cut by 70 percent by 2050, said IPCC. [40] 63] This difference in emissions comes down to diet and lifespan.
Policy News: November 22, 2021
ESA
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 and the European Union are leading the policy commitments to reduce methane emissions. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. degrees Celsius.
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Policy News: August 1, 2022
ESA
AUGUST 1, 2022
According to a one-page summary from Senate leadership, the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. 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.
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