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The story of discarding clothes that harms the environment and you ignore

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to a piece of clothing when it can no longer be used, due to wear, stains, holes and other damage? There is recycling, but not everything can be used. And that piece of clothing that has already been around – because it can be donated or ends up in thrift stores – will end up in landfills. There is also a very serious social issue in this process: “fashion waste” from rich countries is being dumped in developing countries in the Global South, creating very serious environmental consequences, which affect not only the environment, but human beings themselves.

➡️ The world is taking steps towards a dark future, in which the impact of climate change will be more serious than previously feared. For this reason, humanity will have to accelerate the energy transformation, climate change experts warn in a much-awaited report. After 9 years of studies, which occupy 10 thousand pages, the members of the IPCC released a summary of the research and a brief list of recommendations, which represents a “survival guide”, in the words of the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. 🌎

➡️ Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Ricardo Lewandowski approved the agreement between the federal government and the state of Pernambuco to shared management of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago. 🏝️

➡️ Data from the Panorama of Solid Waste in Brazil 2022 shows that the generation of plastic waste in Brazilian cities was 13,7 million tons in 2022, or 64 kilos per person per year. The publication is prepared by the Brazilian Association of Public Cleaning and Special Waste Companies (Abrelpe). 🗑️

➡️ The government will insist on the administrative and judicial collection of R$29,1 billion in environmental fines. The new stance results from the change in two legal opinions from the Attorney General's Office (AGU), which deal with the prescription for the collection of sanctions. 💸

➡️ On a planet with 8 billion inhabitants, 26% of the global population does not have access to clean water, or 2 billion people. Around 46% of the planet's inhabitants do not have safe sanitation services, equivalent to 3,6 billion. The numbers are from the new UNESCO report. The partnership with UN Water was announced at the opening of the UN Conference on Water, in New York. Know more!(I.e.

➡️ The Cerrado could lose 33,9% of its river flows by 2050, if the pace of agricultural exploration remains at current levels. Given the situation, authorities and experts must devote the same attention as they do to the Amazon, since one biome does not exist without the other.💧

➡️ Can weather damage trigger homicide charges? An article accepted for publication in the Harvard Environmental Law Review says yes! 👩‍⚖️ The stunning and seemingly radical legal theory holds that fossil fuel companies “are not simply lying to the public, they are killing people at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors must bring this crime to public attention.” Understand!

➡️ Exports of green products such as electric cars and wind turbines managed to keep pace last year despite the slowdown in global trade, the UN said.. World trade reached a record $32 trillion in 2022, before falling in the second half of the year amid deteriorating economic conditions and rising uncertainty.

➡️ United States President Joe Biden approved an oil and gas extraction project in Alaska: the Willow Project. But why are environmentalists against him? O Curto News explains it to you.

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