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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. A young protester shows support for Juliana v. United States.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Here, the company is now already running habitat tours, educational seminars, and corporate eco-retreats at the Bunloit estate's onsite cottages and castle, with plans to add further community-based schemes going forward. At Beldorney, meanwhile, the company hopes to implement lessons learned at Bunloit.

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Global Briefing: In-person COP15 biodiversity talks braced for delay to 2022

Business Green

Indonesia, one of the world's most prolific thermal coal producers, has submitted an updated climate plan to the United Nations that suggests it intends to rely on the fossil fuel for power well beyond mid-century. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target.