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Major palm oil company execs arrested for bribery in Indonesia
Earlier this week Reuters reported on a bribery scandal in Indonesia that has resulted — so far — in the arrests of seven people, including senior executives of palm company Sinar Mas Agro…
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The City of Angels Funds Some Hellish Fossil Fuel Projects
When Los Angeles voters go to the polls next week, they will decide whether to approve Charter Amendment B, which amends the city’s charter to enable it to take affirmative steps to establish a publ…
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Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil?
In its annual listing of sustainable companies released last month, S&P Dow Jones Indices included Golden Agri-Resources, a palm oil company financing operations in Liberia.
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Changing the Main Course of Climate Change
Agriculture produces an astounding one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Meat and dairy alone generate about half of those food-related emissions — more than the combined tailpipe…
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Un vistazo a Brasil revela los grandes problemas de REDD que el Estándar de Bosques Tropicales de California no aborda.
Con la publicación esta semana del informe especial del Panel Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático que analiza los impactos del calentamiento global de 1,5 °C, la presión aumenta para seguir haciendo todo lo posible por contribuir…
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As history and records are set in 2018, the world must listen to Arctic Indigenous Peoples at IMO
Pollution threats from HFO tie into the very fiber of our lives — affecting our access to healthy wildlife for food and the quality of our lands.
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It’s not deja vu. Congress really is trying to pass another failing industrial ocean fish farm bill.
We can continue to feed the global population without further industrializing our oceans by utilizing recirculating systems and through sustainable wild-capture fishing, agroecological shellfish, and…
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BlackRock’s Big Palm Oil Problem
BlackRock is the largest U.S. financier of palm oil. Enabled by BlackRock’s money, dirty palm oil continues to be produced, traded and consumed with no consequence — and rampant deforestation…
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Hurricane Florence: Unearthing man-made disasters
North Carolina has battled against two toxic presences for years: coal ash and hog waste. Hurricane Florence magnifies the hazards presented by these two toxic problems.
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El potencial de mitigación del cambio climático de la agricultura orgánica
Cuando se trata de tomar medidas contra el cambio climático, la transición a las energías renovables y el abandono de nuestra adicción a los combustibles fósiles suelen acaparar la mayor atención. Pero los alimentos que consumimos y cómo los cultivamos son…