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2 December 2021 - NPWJ News Digest on Environmental Justice & Human Rights
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COP26: UK 'nowhere near' meeting targets agreed at Glasgow climate summit
By BBC, 02 Dec 2021
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that, at current rates, the UK will be contributing to a disastrous temperature rise of 2.7C by 2100. It says this could - in theory - be brought down to just under 2C; but this could only happen if ministers agree tougher policies, and if other nations slash emissions too.
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Shell argues a successful interdict will be detrimental to it and the country, claims no evidence of environmental harm
By Daily Maverick, 02 Dec 2021
Lawyers argue in the hope of preventing Shell from conducting a seismic survey off the Wild Coast to explore for oil and gas. "The harm to the receiving environment does not seem to be capable of being repaired and cannot be addressed by any subsequent remedy. Shell’s answer is that the applicants exaggerate the environmental impacts, not that they are repairable,” lawyers said.
How Indigenous communities in Paraguay are fighting big soy
By Aljazeera, 30 Nov 2021
The Ava Guarani are one of 19 Indigenous groups in Paraguay who have sustained cultural, spiritual and territorial dispossession for decades by the country’s land-owning elites aligned with agribusiness. But after more than a decade of sustained pesticide fumigations at soy plantations near Campo Aguae, a village of approximately 400 people, there is a glimmer of hope that residents’ appeals for help might finally have been heard.
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Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging
By Mongabay, 30 Nov 2021
An Indigenous community in southwest Colombia established a protected reserve in the face of illegal logging, mining and coca cultivation being carried out by criminal groups. The Eperãra Siapidaarã peoples are especially interested in protecting the extremely poisonous golden dart frog, which they historically used in their darts while hunting. Despite establishing the reserve, the community has more work to do to fend off violent non-state armed groups.
US legislators call for release of environmental lawyer Donziger
By Aljazeera, 30 Nov 2021
Nine United States legislators have called on the Justice Department to release environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest and was sentenced to six months in prison in October on a criminal contempt conviction.
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Rain to replace snow in the Arctic as climate heats, study finds
By The Guardian, 30 Nov 2021
Today, more snow falls in the Arctic than rain. But this will reverse, the study suggests, with all the region’s land and almost all its seas receiving more rain than snow before the end of the century if the world warms by 3C. Pledges made by nations at the recent Cop26 summit could keep the temperature rise to a still disastrous 2.4C, but only if these promises are met.
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'Taste this, it’s salty': how rising seas are ruining the Gambia’s rice farmers
By The Guardian, 27 Nov 2021
Rising sea levels are pushing saltwater further and further along the river, which snakes its way across the length of the low-lying country, and prolonged dry spells mean less freshwater to flush out the salinity. The result is that the water in the fields that used to produce rice is now too salty, and the much of the land – more than 30 hectares (74 acres) – has had to be abandoned. For women such as Jamba and Kassamah, that is a disaster.
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