Author: Daniela Rey, ClientEarth Recent reports indicate that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is not slowing down. In fact, it has jumped almost six-fold in the March-April period of this year, according to satellite images taken by the National Institute of Space Research. One factor which is contributing to this rise is the increasing demand for agricultural land [...]

This week marked a significant milestone of the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). A wind power project in Inner Mongolia, China, has become the 3,000th project registered under the world’s largest international offsetting mechanism. There is no doubt that the process is speeding up: it took 18 months to register the first 1,000 projects; [...]

You would be forgiven if you looked at a map of Canada’s May 2 election results and did not see much evidence of Canada’s multi-party system, modelled on the United Kingdom’s Westminster style of government. The results from the election – the country’s fourth federal election in seven years – are historic on a number [...]