Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The report, “Investing in Amazon Crude”, also provides four case studies focusing on the dissent, protest, and legal resistance put up by indigenous communities in the region, that have led to numerous suspensions of already existing and planned projects, including three in the Peruvian Amazon alone in January 2020.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s time to prioritize the survival of indigenous people, the world’s forest stewards Carol Goodstein Tue, 06/02/2020 – 00:00 Hunting and gathering for food is taking on a whole new meaning of late. The ever-lengthening line at my local Whole Foods starts to wrap around the outside of the store before 7 a.m.,

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Indigenous Peoples’ Day – October 11th. Advocating for the environment also requires us to support the wellbeing and livelihoods of people, especially groups that have too often gone suppressed and voiceless. While October 11th marks Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the U.S. World Food Day – October 16th.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Or as the World Resources Institute appropriately dubbed it, the latest elephant in the boardroom.) . "We We need to do a heck of a lot more than change the ways that we create and consume," said Sherri Mitchell, an environmental and Indigenous rights activist, teacher and founding director of the Land Peace Foundation. "We

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Today—October 10—is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the so-called United States. Why Treaties Matter — A five-minute NPR video that introduces you to treaty rights and what they mean for Indigenous peoples in the United States. Check out this webpage by the Indigenous Environmental Network for one interpretation.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2023

A national Indigenous group is fighting a proposed federal limit on oil and gas sector emissions by arguing it will harm First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. But the group has a powerful non-Indigenous ally, according to corporate documents from Canada’s second-largest oil and gas producer.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A number of indigenous groups have called for emergency support to stop the governments of Ecuador and Peru from expanding new fossil fuel, mining, and large-scale industrial development in one of the critical headwaters regions of the Amazon River. billion metric tons of carbon in the forests and 1.9

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sustainability centers around leaving the world a better place for the next generation. This implicitly covers all people with no qualifiers. Companies must consider these types of impacts moving forward and minimize harm to Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise. Without mangroves, 18 million more people worldwide would suffer from coastal flooding each year (an increase of 39 percent).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This spike in forest destruction led Brazil to be the only country in the world reporting a major increase in greenhouse gas emissions, in a year when the global economy stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The regime has done nothing to protect Indigenous people or halt these activities. percent of the deforestation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The study, which involved hundreds of scientists around the world, highlights the critical importance of forest conservation, restoration, and sustainable management in moving towards international climate and biodiversity targets. Most of the world’s forests are highly degraded. said Crowther.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Thousands of protestors marched through Glasgow today to demand action from world leaders and polluting companies, as the COP26 UN climate summit moves into its second week. Indigenous groups were front and centre of the demonstration, with one protestor calling them the “first true climate leaders”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. By promoting sustainable and innovative approaches to forest management, we ensure that all the benefits of healthy forests are maintained for people and the planet. Smaller brands taking bold action: INDIGENOUS. New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion. Liesl Truscott.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Indigenous people in Kaeng Krachan national park fear further evictions and impacts from tourism after World Heritage listing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk. But Indigenous leaders speaking ahead of the U.S. banks in the coming weeks. “Oil climate talks in Glasgow late last year.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

We want people to be inclusive, and we want people and companies not to be silent on these issues anymore because that’s how we’ve gotten to this point in the first place," said Katz, director of communications at IE. We want transparency. We do that through our Instagram page. So we’ve been focusing on community building there. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

A collaborative study seems to show that people share odour preferences regardless of cultural background. Cultures around the world rank different odours in a similar way no matter where they come from, but odour preferences have a personal – although not cultural – component,” said Arshamian.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available. Judy Kuszewski is Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which is responsible for setting the GRI Standards.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

Canada’s stunning coastline is the longest in the world, at approximately 151,019 miles — equivalent to road tripping from Northern California to Maine roughly 53 times. In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines. That is, if policymakers and innovators act quickly and equitably.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Indigenous activists on Wednesday staged a protest outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters in central Glasgow as pressure on banks to halt oil and gas extraction grows. Around 30 frontline Indigenous activists led the press conference, holding “Air back” and Ice back” banners. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. Indigenous Resistance. Barclays, HSBC and Credit Suisse declined to comment. and Canadian emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Proposals to boost transparency in the carbon offset market could shine a light on brokers who buy credits cheaply from Indigenous communities before selling them to companies at inflated prices. . Francisco Souza, a Brazilian economist and member of the Apurinã Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon has since taken up one of the posts.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In early June of last year, Indigenous rights expert Bruno Pereira and Guardian journalist Dom Phillips set off together on a riverboat journey through Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigenous territory, to meet and speak with residents working to protect the area. They would not make it back alive. We must do more to protect them.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016).

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2022

According to Liontown, Kathleen Valley has “a world-class lithium deposit” that could eventually produce as much as 700 kilotons of spodumene concentrate per year. Unlike some lithium extraction projects in the world, Kathleen Valley appears to be fairly environmentally friendly, and to enjoy the cooperation of the area’s indigenous people.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Indigenous peoples represent 5% of the world population.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Located within EDC’s Southern Negros Geothermal Project (SNGP), it is one of the pioneering geothermal energy projects in the Philippines that has brought recognition to the country as the largest vertically integrated geothermal firm in the world.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The IMF anticipates Canada will lead the G7 in growth next year, and already the country has seen the third-most foreign direct investment in the world in the first half of 2023, more per capita than our G7 allies (in 2022, the EV supply chain alone attracted 13% of all foreign direct investment into Canada). “A

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

According to the UN Environment Programme , coral reefs provide habitat for an estimated 32% of all marine species and benefit 1 billion people worldwide, directly or indirectly. The ReCoral concept could be applied to offshore foundations of any kind in tropical waters around the world.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. There is a lot of wind supply in very rich and diverse indigenous communities.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Xiye Bastida is a 20-year-old climate activist from the Otomí-Toltec community in central Mexico, a leading organizer with the Fridays for Future movement in New York City, a co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative , and a champion of Indigenous and immigrant engagement in climate activism. CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA. CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

First, the scale at which we will be able to deliver green fuels to markets and customers around the world, helping to move us all towards a net-zero future. This partnership through robust governance and a seat at the table for Mirning People will provide opportunities never before available to Indigenous Corporations.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For example: About 4 billion people, representing nearly two-thirds of the world population, experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year ( Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2016 ). 700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030 ( Global Water Institute, 2013 ).

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Grist

JANUARY 25, 2023

But many environmentalists say more ambitious targets should be set to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity while Indigenous peoples say a failure by world leaders to recognize Indigenous rights, territories and knowledge has led to land grabs and human rights abuses.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

s west coast have faced prohibitively high costs, scathing critiques from climate activists, and fierce opposition from some Indigenous communities. With “credible First Nations partners,” Johnson said, “then I think you have a very unique set of assets that would be hard to find elsewhere in the world.”.

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