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Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes

DeSmogBlog

The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. based Doe Run Company) from 1997 to 2009. “The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States.

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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. Exxon , Cole was unexpectedly killed on June 6, 2009, while on sabbatical in Uganda. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends. He was interested in all of it.”. Dismissed But Not Lost.

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World Energy Storage Day: a global platform for the energy industry’s potential

Smart Energy International

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. and chair of World Energy Storage Day.

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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.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

mid-west, parts of China, India and South-East Asia, Africa and South America will experience such severe temperatures that existing crops will in the very least be significantly impacted and yield reduced. Several vital food growing regions in the world, including the U.S. And yeah sure, I am not a climate scientist.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Australia had established a historic standard for a single outbreak with its 2009 Black Saturday fires; its 2019–20 Black Summer burns broke historic standards for a season. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle.

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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.