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Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Kicks Off Annual Meeting in Heart...
The Amazon and Rio Negro rivers meet in Manaus, Brazil. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons This week, on the banks of the largest river system in the world, Governors, environment secretaries and civil...
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Governors Launch Action Plan to Reduce Deforestation and Improve Lives in...
Wilson Lima, Governor of Amazonas and chair of the GCF Task Force 12th Annual Meeting, introduces the Manaus Action Plan alongside other governors and high-level representatives from member states and...
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California Releases Draft Plan to Reach Carbon Neutrality by 2045
California’s lead climate and air quality agency published a comprehensive draft plan yesterday for how the state could reach its carbon neutrality goals by no later than 2045. The California Air...
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GCF Task Force Exchange of Experiences in San Martin, Peru
From October 10-13, 2022, the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) – a project of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law and UCLA’s...
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Brazil: Presidential Election, Saving the Amazon, and Combating Climate Change
By Jason Gray and Colleen Scanlan Lyons Co-Project Directors, GCF Task Force Yesterday, the people of Brazil had a historic vote in favor of returning President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) to...
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Subnational Solutions to Deforestation on Display at COP27
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) participated in the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm...
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Tribal Energy Sovereignty in California
On Thursday, March 2, 2023, California’s principal energy agencies – the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – held a first-of-its-kind, joint en...
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Measuring Tropical Forests and Deforestation from Space
In a world where a swipe on a smart phone enables navigation from one part of the globe to another, many technology companies, investors, environmental organizations, community groups, and policymakers...
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A $1 Billion Investment in the ‘New Forest Economy’
On December 5, as the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change continues full swing in Dubai, Governors, Indigenous Peoples, and other...
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