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What can we learn from EU’s battery regulation?

Legal Planet

Our new report outlines a framework for building a more responsible battery supply chain, drawing insights from the European Unions Sustainable Batteries Regulation (2023). Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation.

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How to Make Trees Worth More Standing Than Cut Down

Legal Planet

If trading mechanisms allow carbon emissions from one area to be offset by afforestation or reduced rates of deforestation, the climate is better off. This can happen through stringent government regulation, reputation, private certification, or some combination of these. Only the Congo, however, is still a net carbon sink.

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ICE Plans Traceability Services to Help Cocoa, Coffee Industry Meet Deforestation Regulations

Environment + Energy Leader

The new tracking service will help the cocoa and coffee industry comply with the EU’s recently released rules on regulating deforestation.

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Governors Launch Action Plan to Reduce Deforestation and Improve Lives in Forested Regions

Legal Planet

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Thus it is necessary to assess this regulation,” Hariadi says. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. million tons shipped there.

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Climate change: new rules for companies to stop EU-driven deforestation globally

Environmental News Bits

To fight climate change and biodiversity loss globally, Environment MEPs want only deforestation-free products to be allowed on the EU market.

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The European Union's new plan to curb deforestation is deeply flawed

New Scientist

Sustainability researchers have serious doubts about whether the EU’s new regulation will succeed in stopping deforestation