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Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes

DeSmogBlog

The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States. The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. based Doe Run Company) from 1997 to 2009. Neither the U.S.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends.

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Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told.

DeSmogBlog

Chevron Newsrooms Begin in South America In launching the Standard, Chevron followed a path the fossil fuel giant had first forged thousands of miles to the south. Since 2009, Singer has run The Amazon Post in Ecuador at Chevron’s direction. ” Permian Proud also promotes Chevron’s perspective. .

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than 50% of all human calories come from just three plants: rice, maize and wheat.

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. In New Jersey, over 47,000 people were hospitalized for gastrointestinal illness between 2009 and 2013.