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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction.

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The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry

DeSmogBlog

Part of the biggest fleet in the world, more than 300 Chinese squid ships ride the line of national waters on both sides of South America. ” Sainsbury’s said that the company took immediate action if it had any reason to believe that its supply chains were in breach of its high ethical and worker welfare standards.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

The report argues legislation will have a huge role to play in the future of cultivated meats, as effective rules are reqiured to reassure customers that cultivated meats can be ethically produced and safe to eat. Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America.

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“A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance”: My annotated version of Larry Fink’s Bombshell CEO Letter

Andrew Winston

From Europe to Australia, South America to China, Florida to Oregon, investors are asking how they should modify their portfolios. Under any scenario, the energy transition will still take decades. We need to be mindful of the economic, scientific, social and political realities of the energy transition.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

In a video recording of the event , Cole asserted that where fossil fuel energy is extracted, refined, transported, used to generate power, and disposed of in toxic waste dumps, it “is highly correlated to low income communities and communities of color.”. Almost all aspects of our energy economy thus have environmental justice implications.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. “That model doesn’t address some key elements of the world we want tomorrow.

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