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#1333242022-02-18
How the US commitment to lower emissions will affect the fight against climate change
US President Joe Biden has made tackling climate change a top priority. One of his first orders in 2021 was to appoint John Kerry as the first US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. The Biden-Harris Administration have, since then, pursued an environmental agenda, backed by a push for clear ...
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#1333272022-02-18
Focus on ridding forests off invasive alien species
The Forest department has planned a special project to eradicate prioritised invasive alien species from the forests of the State during the 2022-23 fiscal.
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#1333512022-02-21
Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change
Land just upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota was leased for copper mining — until the plan was recently scrapped.
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#1333532022-02-21
Minister of Climate Change and Environment Explores Potential Synergies in Climate Action, Clean Energy, Food Security During Germany Visit - mid-east.info
Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri presents UAE's vision for inclusive COP28 at Munich Security Conference. Dubai, UAE: Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, wrapped up a four-day visit to Germany, where she discussed opportunitie ...
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#1333712022-02-21
UK wildlife campaigners call for legal right to access nature for all
Everyone in the UK should be legally entitled to equal access to nature, wildlife campaigners will tell the government.
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#1333732022-02-21
President of Seychelles nominated as patron of Ocean Decade Alliance
Seychelles has taken another step to reaffirm its contribution to ocean science and leadership among small island developing states with the nomination of President Wavel Ramkalawan as one of the two patrons of the Ocean Decade Alliance.
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#1333772022-02-21
India, France agree on Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance
India and France have agreed on a Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance with the aim to contribute to scientific knowledge and ocean conservation and ensure that the ocean remains a global common, based on the rule of law.
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#1333822022-02-21
Labour’s greening strategy: Underground parking and new open parks
The Labour Party vowed to increase urban public spaces by putting car parks underground if given a fresh mandate in the coming general election.
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#1334052022-02-22
El-Sisi holds talks with Kerry in Cairo on climate change
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressed his aspiration “to continue consultations with the American side on climate change issues during the coming period within the framework of the partnership between Egypt and the United States,” during a meeting with US Presidential Envoy f ...
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#1334152022-02-22
Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law
In November 2021, the Kenyan parliament proposed a bill that would effectively eliminate the Kenya Forest Service’s (KFS) role as an intermediary between petitioners and parliament in requests to alter forest boundaries.
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#1334442022-02-23
What Does Building Back Better Look Like?
Sunny-day flooding in historical downtowns. Disappearing shorelines. Homes destroyed by yet another hurricane. The hazards of climate change to coastal cities are ramping up. In the United States, political momentum has been building—in fits and starts—to confront the threat.
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#1334512022-02-23
Wildlife groups urge MPs to back protest amendments to crime bill
Bumblebee and butterfly conservationists are among dozens of environmental groups calling on MPs to back amendments removing powers to curtail protest from the government’s crime bill.
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#1334732022-02-24
Editorial | Climate Change Requires More Than Just Talk
The inaugural Israel Climate Change Conference, held by Haaretz and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, took place Wednesday at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
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#1334812022-02-24
More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project
Indonesian coffee farmers on the island of Sumatra have spoken out against a plan to mine for gold in an area that overlaps with one of the last known habitats of Sumatran tigers and orangutans.
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#1334842022-02-24
Supreme court case could restrict Biden’s effort to tackle climate crisis
Joe Biden’s faltering effort to tackle the climate crisis faces a further, potentially devastating, blow on Monday in a supreme court case that experts warn could severely restrict any future US government attempt to limit planet-heating emissions.
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#1335192022-02-24
Plastic treaty would be historic for planet: UNEP chief
The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic trash, the UN environment chief told AFP.
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#1335202022-02-25
Natural England chair backs ‘biodiversity net gain’ plan to boost wild areas
Demand for nature is exceeding supply but new wildlife areas can be created by regulations to ensure housing estates bring about “biodiversity net gain”, according to the chair of England’s nature watchdog.
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#1335232022-02-25
Guest post: How to model society’s response to climate change
How ambitious climate policy will be in the future is key to understanding the scale of climate change impacts we can expect. Yet, the question of how society responds to climate change is not well represented in climate and energy models.
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#1335302022-02-25
Biodiversity: 30 years of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas and the LIFE programme
To mark 30 years of the Natura 2000 network and the LIFE programme, a Ministerial Conference is taking place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today, co-organised by the French Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission. EU Ministers and Commissioner for the Environment, ...
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#1335322022-02-25
Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado
During last year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, more than 140 countries committed to halting and reversing deforestation by 2030. The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use recognized the critical role of all forest types for biodiversity, sustainable land use, and mitigating a ...
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#1335872022-02-28
Climate change won’t wait for future innovation — we need action now
Reading national climate plans feels like perusing corporate advertising brochures. There is an ever-increasing focus on the promise of innovation: hydrogen fuel, new nuclear technologies and carbon capture and storage, the plans claim, will close the gap between what the world needs and what re ...
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#1335972022-02-28
UN urged to tackle plastic trash 'epidemic' with treaty
The UN on Monday launched a global effort to forge a landmark treaty curbing plastic pollution—an "epidemic" with escalating costs for the environment and human health.
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#1336042022-02-28
Poorer nations need $60 bn a year to protect nature: NGOs
Wealthy countries should provide at least $60 billion every year to the world's poorest nations to combat biodiversity loss, an alliance of environment groups said Tuesday.
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#1336082022-03-01
California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat
Climate scientists from around the world issued dire warnings on Monday, in the latest IPCC report on the dangers posed in the unfolding climate crisis. Among them is extreme heat, a crisis that on average already claims more American lives than hurricanes and tornadoes combined.
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#1336182022-03-01
Feature: Nature-based solutions to improve climate change and air quality
Stephen Cirell, an independent consultant on climate change, low carbon and renewable energy, advises how local authorities and policy makers can incorporate nature-based solutions into their climate, biodiversity and air quality plans.
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#1336712022-03-03
Feature: Nature-based solutions to improve climate change and air quality
Stephen Cirell, an independent consultant on climate change, low carbon and renewable energy, advises how local authorities and policy makers can incorporate nature-based solutions into their climate, biodiversity and air quality plans.
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#1336872022-03-03
Protecting the ocean, from the land
There is an expanse of wetland where the Yellow River flows into the sea in Dongying, Shandong province, where birds gather and seawater laps over the grasses and shrubs. Here, in October last year, the National Park Administration approved the creation of China’s first “integrated land–sea” nat ...
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#1336932022-03-03
California wants to eradicate microplastics. Will a new strategy be enough?
Microplastics can be found everywhere, from waterways to fish to inside the human body’s soft tissues. And it’s only getting worse – 11m metric tons of plastic enter the planet’s oceans each year, an amount that is expected to triple by 2040.
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#1337212022-03-07
In plan for African wildlife corridors, there’s more than one elephant in the room
An international conservation group is pushing forward with ambitious plans for extended elephant corridors in Africa that would allow the animals room to move more freely — not just across adjacent borders but across the length and breadth of nearly half the continent.
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#1337232022-03-07
Globally acclaimed community forest groups in Nepal say new rules threaten their autonomy
Nepalis whose livelihoods rely on access to the country’s community forests have suspended planned protests against a new law they say will threaten their autonomy and force their groups to work under various bureaucratic mechanisms.
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#1337272022-03-07
Deep-sea mining could begin next year. Here’s why ocean experts are calling for a moratorium.
A troupe of environmental activists descended on Rotterdam, Netherlands, last month for an evocative demonstration. Dressed as jellyfish, sea anemones, and “fisher folk,” protestors from the advocacy group Ocean Rebellion sang songs and projected messages onto the hull of a 750-foot-long drillin ...
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#1337462022-03-07
Combating climate change is no longer the responsibility of governments exclusively: Egypt's FM
As appointed president of COP27, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry attended Sunday the event organized by the British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA) to discuss the upcoming summit to be hosted in Sharm El Sheikh in November.
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#1337822022-03-08
Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects
The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, despite moves by the European Union to ban the use of toxins that have been blamed for widespread insec ...
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#1338562022-03-31
10 Ways To Shape a Positive Future for Forests
Anna Begemann is a researcher in the Governance Program at the European Forest Institute. From deforestation largely caused by agricultural encroachment in the Amazon, to devastating forest fires in Canada,
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#1338582022-03-31
Getting paid to let the forest stand – it´s true, it´s here
Swedish forest owners struggle with their profitability. Low timber prices, the lowest in Europe, are not only annoying the forest owners, but it has also made them think of alternatives to selling the timber through the traditional channels.
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#1338632022-03-31
Chile poised to grant rights to Nature; could become 2nd such country besides Ecuador
Chile is poised to grant rights to nature in its constitution and could become the second such country in the world besides Ecuador in the next few days, according to a statement.
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#1338702022-03-31
Fast fashion: European Union reveals fast fashion crackdown
Clothes, furniture and smartphones sold in Europe must be longer-lasting and easier to repair under new rules proposed by the European Union.
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#1338722022-03-31
Third of all compost sold in UK is climate-damaging peat
More than a third of all compost sold in the UK in 2021 was peat dug from carbon-rich habitats, new data has revealed. The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), which opposes a ban on peat sales, provided the figures in its response to a government consultation.
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#1338822022-03-31
Improving biodiversity monitoring in Europe
The European data landscape is highly fragmented in the area of biodiversity. A variety of different methods for data collection and analysis often makes it impossible to compare across countries the information that has been obtained.
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#1340242022-04-12
Why the UN’s latest stand on the right to a healthy environment is monumental
'Recognizing this human right as universal is one thing; enforcing the needed laws and policies to protect it is another' “The highest human right is the right to life.”
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#1340222022-04-12
Why the UN’s latest stand on the right to a healthy environment is monumental
'Recognizing this human right as universal is one thing; enforcing the needed laws and policies to protect it is another' “The highest human right is the right to life.”
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#1340002022-04-12
In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve
Gabon’s environment minister has announced an immediate end to the logging of the Massaha ancestral forest in the country’s northeast, setting his administration a two-month deadline to finalize technical questions for permanent protection of the site.
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#1340062022-04-12
Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill 2021 misses the target despite good intentions
The Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2021 introduces a regulatory framework for ‘invasive alien species’ in the Indian environmental legislative regime. However, despite being a well-intended step, the scope of the provision remains narrow and inadequate for managing the menace of invasive sp ...
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#1340202022-04-12
Science-based policy-making: New recommendations for forest pests and diseases management
Over the last century, emerging diseases have progressively been recognized by the scientific community as the main threat to forest ecosystems. With increasing international trade and globalization, the introduction of non-native species into new environments has exacerbated the problems of eme ...
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#1340262022-04-13
Koroilavesau speaks on behalf of the AG in the Ocean Conference in Palau
Minister for Fisheries Semi Koroilavesau says Fiji is using our reopening to the world as a reset for a highly sustainable and resilient tourism sector.
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#1340272022-04-13
Prince Charles urges shoppers to save the world's oceans
Prince Charles wants shoppers to help save the planet's oceans. The 73-year-old royal will warn consumers that they should make "ocean and land-friendly choices" by buying certain products when at the shops.
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#1340382022-04-13
Nature groups support mitigation measures for Keppel Club site but concerned over biodiversity
Nature groups have lauded proposed measures to minimise the environmental impact of developing the Keppel Club site, although they remain concerned about the protection of biodiversity in the area.
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#1340862022-04-14
UK’s largest sandbank given protection from bottom trawling
The UK’s largest sandbank has been protected from bottom trawling, an environmentally destructive fishing technique. Activists have been calling on the government for years to stop bottom trawling at Dogger Bank, an important site off the east coast of England for species including sand eels, he ...