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Six Senses Launches a Series of Sustainability Campaigns
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Unilever to halve use of virgin plastic and collect more plastic packaging than it sells by 2025
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Scotland ‘leading the way’ in tackling marine litter, says Nicola Sturgeon
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Brazil must cut deforestation 15-20% a year to reach 2030 goal, says vice president
razil needs to cut illegal deforestation by between 15% and 20% every year to eliminate it by 2030, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Friday, referring to a goal set by President Jair Bolsonaro in a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden this week. Bolsonaro is set to attend a U.S. climate summit hosted by Biden next week amid international pressure to slash deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, which surged to a 12-year high in 2020 as an area 14 times the size of New York City was destroyed, government data show.