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Lázaro Thor Borges Seeking re-election, Jair Bolsonaro’s government has championed the easing of environmental policy in Brazil, while opponents push for a sustainable turnaround Billboards scattered along the sides of highways that cut through the largest soybean farms in Brazil carried a clear

Business , Corruption , Data & Reports , Health , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 04/09/2022

California Handed Its Medicaid Drug Program to One Company. Then Came a Corporate Takeover

Samantha Young California awarded the Medi-Cal Rx program to a unit of Magellan Health, a company with expertise in pharmacy benefits and mental health. But Magellan was then gobbled up by industry giant Centene Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the st

Aid , Biodiversity , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development / 04/07/2022

Eviction, torture, rape, murder reported from world famous gorilla national park in DRC

Thousands of Batwa were evicted when the park was expanded in 1975. Since then they’ve mostly lived outside it, in conditions of absolute poverty, but some have tried to return to their lands inside the park. A national park famed for its gorilla-spotting treks has been the scene of appalling atro

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/16/2022

Is Nature Based Solutions greenwashing-numerous organizations write an open letter

From the conservation industry’s perspective, the idea is simple: corporations pay them to enclose forests or plant trees on land they claim is “degraded” and which could absorb more carbon if restored. In return, the corporations claim that the climate damage from their ongoing gr

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 03/01/2022

Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories

Lívia Machado Costa New report shows that companies from Brazil and abroad are sieging sites of interest, even where mineral extraction is prohibited he search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as in

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/27/2022

Cover-up: Brazilian government plot to open up uncontacted tribe’s territory revealed

An extraordinary plot to open up an uncontacted tribe’s territory for exploitation, and suppress evidence of the tribe’s existence, has been revealed in Brazil. The cover-up involves top officials in FUNAI, the government Indigenous Affairs Agency, who have been hand-picked by President Bol

Business , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Governance , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 11/22/2021

Everyday corruption in PNG: a way of life?

Teddy Winn In PNG there are many laws against corruption. There are also a host of integrity agencies, a new Independent Commission against Corruption, as well as NGOs and donors that support anti-corruption reform. Despite these well-intentioned efforts, findings suggest many citizens are giving up

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Corruption , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 11/20/2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen The lead author of a Rainforest Foundation Norway report showing how little funding goes to Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) for tenure and forest management writes that the reality is even worse than the “less than 1%” soundbite often shared. Over 10 years, $

Biodiversity , Business , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development / 11/18/2021

Human rights abuses reported from Kenya conservation efforts linked to British Royals

The areas under “conservancies” are the ancestral grazing lands of pastoralist peoples such as the Samburu and Maasai, who have been managing these lands since time immemorial. Wildlife “conservancies” in Kenya whose visitors include Britain’s Royals are implicated in the eviction, torture

Cities , Climate , Corruption , Disasters , Environment , Governance , Opinions , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 11/12/2021

We must recognise cities as waterscapes

and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that has been hovering ominously over Tamil Nadu has brought with it the highest volume of rainfall within 24 hours in the last five years. It has also

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