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In an unprecedented show of solidarity, communities in the Amazon, NGOs and local governments are teaming up to protect Ecuador’s rainforest. [...]
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Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last… [...]
The Inflation Reduction Act includes billions for sustainable agriculture and a last-minute provision to provide debt relief to farmers. [...]
Increasing rates of both deforestation and violence in the Brazilian Amazon are being driven by sprawling national and transnational criminal networks, a study shows. [...]
Deforestation in Borneo will destroy the habitat of more than 26,000 orangutans, a quarter of the population of the critically endangered species, by 2032, a new study says. [...]
Human-caused climate change and the biodiversity crisis mean we can expect more diseases like monkeypox to emerge, scientists have warned. [...]
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August 4, 2022
A new loan from the International Finance Corporation to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company will drive further environmental destruction in the Cerrado savanna, a biodiversity hotspot, and disenfranchise local and indigenous communities.
August 1, 2022
Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis offers a stark example of what happens when debt-ridden governments enforce abrupt and unmanaged action in our food system to cut costs – without supporting a fair, inclusive transition to sustainable alternatives.
June 2, 2022
The global food price crisis is fuelling poverty, hunger and instability across the globe. The crisis – the third in 15 years – was triggered by the war in Ukraine but created by a broken food system that is overly dependent on fossil fuel fertilisers, overly concentrated on the production of a handful of commodities in a handful of countries, and overly dominated by a few powerful agri-food corporations.
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August 1, 2022
Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis offers a stark example of what happens when debt-ridden governments enforce abrupt and unmanaged action in our food system to cut costs – without supporting a fair, inclusive transition to sustainable alternatives.
July 8, 2022
The current global food system is destroying the natural world and exacerbating the climate crisis while allowing a handful of food companies to profiteer at the expense of farmers and consumers. The Ukraine war demonstrates how vulnerable the global food system is to shocks.
March 30, 2022
Humanity is slowly starting to take climate change mitigation and adaptation seriously. But, implementation has been too slow and uneven, the IPCC WGII’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report states.
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In Bali, locals & activists from @Sungaiwatch are cleaning waterways – 400,000 kilos of rubbish, to be precise, from rivers & streams. Over half of the plastic waste originates from big brands. Indonesia is the world’s 2nd largest ocean polluter.
#Biodiversity is the web of life that connects us all. 🕸
@IPBES breaks down ...
🍄 What #biodiversity is
🐝 Why we need diverse plants and animals
🌳 What we can do #ForNature
EU food companies are breaking their plastic promises. According to a DW investigation, two-thirds of pledges to go greener on plastic fail/are scrapped.
➡️ http://p.dw.com/p/4EkyT
Nearly 200 million hectares of tropical forest have been lost over the past 20 years in regions where primates live, with Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Amazon considered high-priority areas. https://bit.ly/3BQiOey
🔥 Brazil vowed last year to halt #deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June.
Here is what you need to know about tropical forest fires⤵️
🏝 Caribbean nations need rich countries to pay their fair share of climate finance, not market measures that let polluters off the hook.
The problem with The Bahamas’ blue #carbonmarket plans⤵️
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/08/03/the-problem-with-the-bahamas-blue-carbon-market-plans/ 📰 @ClimateHome
Incoming environment minister @susanamuhamad said that Colombia must meet international targets for #Deforestation of 100,000 hectares or less by 2025. Deforestation has been rising, despite pledges to cut down on the number of trees being felled.
The Senate on Sunday passed the Inflation Reduction Act on a strict party-line vote.
It's "the single most important step the US has ever taken to combat the climate crisis," writes @rebleber. "Arguably, it's one of the biggest investments ever made on climate in the world."
🛢 The U.S. Senate climate bill’s fee on oil and gas industry #methane emissions will cover less than half the sector’s releases of the powerful greenhouse gas.
Conceding to Manchin, U.S. climate bill exempts most oil industry from methane fees
The U.S. Senate climate bill‘s fee on oil and gas industry methane emissions will cover less than half the ...
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🌳 10% of the world’s #biodiversity is in the Amazon.
#Indigenouspeople are the best guardians of the world's forests and biodiversity.
Protecting their right to ancestral lands is crucial to saving the world's most biodiverse rainforest.
Via @WEF
Today is World #IndigenousPeoplesDay!
🌿 Indigenous knowledge and territorial rights are essential to address the climate and #biodiversity crises.
Yet #Indigenouspeoples continue to face barriers to their rights to lands and territories.
🎥 via @WEF
Hundreds of airstrips have been illegally and secretly built on protected lands in Brazil to fuel the criminal mining industry, a New York Times investigation has found.
The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land
The Times identified hundreds of airstrips that bring criminal mining operations to the most remote corners of the Amazon.
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