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Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill

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Read time: 4 mins Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today. . Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. . Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

IDH's global director of landscapes Matthew Spencer makes the case for 'farm to shelf' tracing of cattle in Brazil to combat deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. It was a big moment for both the Brazilian cattle sector and for all of us who want to stop illegal deforestation in the Amazon.

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California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?

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Read time: 6 mins By Maron Greenleaf , Dartmouth College Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. Tags: carbon offsets California Air Resources Board tropical deforestation Amazon rainforest But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it? California thinks it has an answer.

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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry

GreenBiz

The strategy expanding preservation of the Amazon rainforest to 7.4 Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Natura & Co., million acres from its current 4.5

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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

GreenBiz

The company said the algorithm, trained using millions of food items recognized by Amazon Rekognition and Google Cloud Vision, can identify food items with 98 percent accuracy in two to three seconds. . Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along. Pull Quote.

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Green Search: Ecosia sees active user rates soar to 20 million

Business Green

It uses satellite technology, geo-tagging, photographic evidence, and field visits to monitor the impact of its reforestation projects. As one of the largest tree-planting organisations in the world, Ecosia said it has worked hard to ensure the right trees are planted in the right place.