deforestation

The Central American country has won the UN Environment Programme’s 2019 Champions of the Earth award

Meat and dairy production and consumption are driving an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation and deforestation

Agriculture and related land-use change generate one quarter of annual greenhouse gas emissions

The Global Resource Initiative (GRI) taskforce met to discuss how the supply chain of key commodities can be fully sustainable

The rate at which trees are being chopped down has sharply accelerated since right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro came into power

Greenpeace International says millions of trees have been cut down to set up plantations supplying some of the world’s leading food companies

The firm has committed to ensuring none of its products are associated with the environmentally-damaging process by 2020

The country’s electricity mix consists of a 95% share of renewables

It will be the first payment for reducing around 4.8m tons of carbon emissions under a climate initiative that started in 2010

Speaking at the Global Climate Action Summit, the actor warned of a ‘looming climate catastrophe’