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News Headlines
#132253
2021-12-21

New equipment for Canadian Coast Guard will help clean up oil spills

The $1.5-billion Oceans Protection Plan is the largest investment ever made to protect Canada’s coasts and waterways, while growing the economy.

News Headlines
#132204
2021-12-17

European stores pull products linked to Brazil deforestation

Several European supermarket chains are dropping Brazilian beef products linked to destruction of the Amazon rainforest and tropical wetland, the US activist group Mighty Earth said Thursday.

News Headlines
#132211
2021-12-17

France is preparing to host 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES in Lyon, with the support of the Metropole, and ensuring safe sanitary conditions for the participants

The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the ...

News Headlines
#132219
2021-12-17

Scottish forestry’s ambitious targets to balance environmental, economic and social outcomes

Well before world leaders headed to Glasgow for November’s COP26, the Scottish Government, along with the rest of the UK, had already committed to some very ambitious tree-planting targets.

News Headlines
#132190
2021-12-16

Draft Ministerial Statement Highlights Environmentally Sustainable Trade

A large group of members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a draft ministerial statement on trade and sustainability on 15 December. The text is the result of the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD), where 53 WTO members said they planned “to collabor ...

News Headlines
#132183
2021-12-15

Climate tech investment is soaring this year — but might not be going to the right areas, PwC says

The average size of a climate tech deal almost quadrupled to $96 million in the first half of 2021, up from $27 million one year prior, PwC said.

News Headlines
#132157
2021-12-13

Should we pay countries to protect their biodiversity?

The countries with the richest biodiversity don’t always take the necessary measures to protect them. Whether it’s because they lack the motivation or the resources to do so, or because they prioritize short-term economic benefits over environmental protection, countries often neglect their resp ...

News Headlines
#132137
2021-12-10

CAF to use $7 billion capitalization for recovery, renewables in Latin America

CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, will use $7 billion in planned equity capitalization to back economic recovery and renewable energy development in the region, its president said on Thursday.

News Headlines
#132124
2021-12-09

Nature As Capital

We have increased our produced capital and human capital, by amassing knowledge and skills. At the same time, however, we have depleted, sometimes irreversibly, our natural capital, the very foundation of all economic and human activities.

News Headlines
#132120
2021-12-09

Second Committee Approves Resolutions on Climate, SIDS, Biodiversity

The UN General Assembly’s committee on economic and financial issues (Second Committee) completed its work for the 76th session. The Committee, which had the first all-woman Bureau in the Committee’s history, reached agreement on guidance on biodiversity, convening conferences on SIDS and LLDCs ...

News Headlines
#132114
2021-12-09

Digitizing the Natural History Museum London's entire collection could contribute over £2 billion to the global economy

The societal benefits of digitizing natural history collections extends to global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collection ...

News Headlines
#132085
2021-12-07

Biodiversity flies under the radar, but is as pressing as climate change

More than half of GDP in SA is moderately to highly dependent on biodiversity and ecosystem services

News Headlines
#132064
2021-12-06

Data point: World Soil Day

Soil erosion costs the global economy US$8bn a year, and reduces agri-food production by 33.7m tonnes, leading to increases of up to 3.5% in world food prices

News Headlines
#131996
2021-11-30

Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs

Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland used modern portfolio theory (MPT), a mathematical framework developed by the economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s to help risk-averse investors maximise returns, to identify the 50 reefs or coral sanctuaries around the world that are most li ...

News Headlines
#132004
2021-11-30

Call for evidence: aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability

The Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee is calling for views on taking greater account of natural capital and environmental sustainability in assessing UK economic prosperity.

News Headlines
#131970
2021-11-29

Toward a well-being economy

Traditionally, our policy and decision-makers use three basic measures of economic progress: gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, and unemployment rate. But how useful are these economic measures, especially during this period when we are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic?

News Headlines
#131882
2021-11-24

Biodiversity market expected by year's end

A market platform matching producers providing biodiversity services with corporations seeking to invest in credible on-farm environmental stewardship is expected to be running by the end of the year.

News Headlines
#131902
2021-11-24

ASR Nederland N : A.s.r. to reward farmers for sustainable business operations

a.s.r. is going to reward farmers who are committed to sustainable business operations. Farmers who use agricultural land owned by a.s.r. can receive a discount of 5 to 10% on the rent if they manage their land sustainably. In order to make the agricultural sector more sustainable, a.s.r. has fo ...

News Headlines
#131908
2021-11-24

Five issues to resolve before we can trade natural capital

An extraordinary opportunity is emerging in the form of natural capital markets, but five main challenges have to be overcome before responsible trading schemes can be launched, according to one sustainability expert.

News Headlines
#131877
2021-11-24

Investors must assess biodiversity risk: ACSI

The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors is urging its members to assess the financial risk posed by biodiversity loss and push companies to do more to protect the environment from deforestation, ecosystem extinction and pollution of the oceans and freshwater resources. New research b ...

Meeting
#6138
Meeting
#6137
Notification
#3062
2021-03-11

United Nations High-Level Political Forum

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/OH/GD/89465 (2021-017)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points and ABS Focal Points

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Meeting
#5974

World Food Safety Day 2020

7 June 2020, Rome, Italy

News Headlines
#125100
2020-04-16

Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation

The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth.

Notification
#2944
2019-12-12
Notification
#2874
2019-05-13

Composition of the Informal Advisory Group on Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/OH/GD/87855 (2019-045)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, relevant stakeholders, organizations and initiatives

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Meeting
#5872

World Economic Forum 2019

22 - 25 January 2019, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

Meeting
#5791
Notification
#2616
2017-05-11

Invitation to Register for a Massive Open Online Course on Greening Consumption and Production (31 May - 12 July 2017)

Reference: SCBD/IMS/RS/ET/CP/86505 (2017-041)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, other Governments, IPLCs and relevant organizations

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CBD
Meeting
#5550
Side Event
#3297
COP 12
2014-10-13

Strengthening capacities to combat poaching and the illegal wildlife trade in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

The current dimension and growth in the illegal trade in wildlife products pose a significant risk both to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and to social and economic development. Past and recent successes in conservation, protected area management and the governance of natur ...

Side Event
#3276
COP 12
2014-10-13

Biodiversity Conservation in China: the national progress for the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

In this workshop, the national progress of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in China will be introduced. Meanwhile, the preliminary results of two pilot studies for economics valuation at local level and one for poverty reduction at community level in China will be shown respectively ...

Side Event
#3301
COP 12
2014-10-09

AICHI TARGET 3 ON POSITIVE INCENTIVES: CAN MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

RATIONALE AND POLICY RELEVANCE Building on decision XI/4 adopted in 2012, Parties at this 12th CoP will discuss the need to mobilize funds at the international and domestic levels to achieve the three objectives of the Convention. To do so, Parties will discuss a list of key actions to improve ...

Side Event
#3157
COP 12
2014-10-07

ACHIEVING THE AICHI TARGET 7 : BUILDING A GREEN ECONOMY WITH SATOYAMA-SATOUMI APPROACH

How to mainstreaming Green economy for achieving the Aichi target 7, overcoming the diverse values? This side event provides 2 cases with Satoyama-Satoumi approaches and 1 methodology for multi-stakeholder communication.Furthermore, we will also discuss life&work-style innovation in Satoyama-Sa ...

Recommendation
SBSTTA-18
#13333

Recommendation XVIII/8

Obstacles encountered in implementing options identified for eliminating, phasing out or reforming incentives that are harmful for biodiversity

Meeting Document
#98758
2014-04-25

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/11

Modalities and Milestones for the Full Operationalization of Aichi Biodiversity Target 3, and Obstacles Encountered in Implementing Options Identified for Eliminating, Phasing Out or Reforming Incentives That Are Harmful for Biodiversity

CBD
Meeting
#5339

Regional Workshop on Resource Mobilization for Africa

11 - 13 February 2014, Entebbe, Uganda

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