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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets

Legal Planet

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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KRUNK Movement Goes Global: A Cross-Cultural Music Collaboration Creates Suubi A Global Anthem For Change To Amplify Sustainability, Hope, And The Arts Linking Allegheny County And Uganda

PA Environment Daily

Inspired by the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals , students used hip-hop, jazz, and spoken word to tackle pressing environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, and social sustainability.

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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

Over the last year Brazil has seen numerous innovative climate litigation claims filed that have questioned the country’s climate policies and general effects of activities on climate change. (I The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change. The Paris Agreement is organized around NDCs: statements of what each nation plans to do to contribute to resolving climate change. Then things move on. But it’s not nothing either.

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

There is international pressure for countries to stop burning coal because the climate impact is so great on a global scale,” says Shigueo Watanabe Junior, a climate change and energy expert at the Climainfo Institute, a Brazilian environmental information organisation. Coal sector apprehensive.

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Canada’s big banks face MPs over their financing of the climate crisis

Enviromental Defense

Just as Big Tobacco and Big Oil hearings led to increased regulation and accountability, this kicks-off moving toward financial regulations for Canadian banks to be part of climate solutions and stop worsening the crisis.” The government needs to act and ensure our banks are in line with sustainable finance practices.