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#1349832022-06-14
France vows cash for urban vegetation as heatwave hits
The French government announced 500 million euros on Tuesday to encourage urban vegetation projects to tackle high temperatures in towns and cities as a heatwave began to strike in the south and southwest.
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#1349952022-06-14
Spain cracks down on food waste with supermarket fines and ‘doggy bags’ required at restaurants
Spain is the latest European country to pass new legislation aimed at reducing its high levels of food waste. Supermarkets will be fined for discarding unsold food, and restaurants must be able to provide 'doggy bags' for leftovers.
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#1349192022-06-08
US government to ban single-use plastic in national parks within a decade
The Biden administration is to phase out single-use plastic products on US public lands, including the vast network of American national parks, in an attempt to stem the huge tide of plastic pollution that now extends to almost every corner of the world.
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#1349492022-06-08
Montréal's Participatory Budget - Saint-Laurent Selected for its Biodiversity Corridor Among the 5 New Projects
The second phase of the Saint-Laurent Biodiversity Corridor has been selected by Ville de Montréal to be one of the 5 additional projects of the participatory budget after the first 7 projects that had been chosen in September 2021. This development will be part of the project entitled "Zones no ...
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#1349532022-06-08
U.N. Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue Explores Ways to Advance Climate and Biodiversity Goals
Annual convening of governments, civil society recognizes the ocean’s important role in climate action. The ocean has a critical role to play in stabilizing the Earth’s climate, absorbing 90% of excess heat and 40% of human-made carbon dioxide emissions.
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#1348752022-06-07
Malpass defends World Bank's record on climate change, says U.S. supportive
World Bank President David Malpass on Tuesday defended the bank's work on climate change and said U.S. Treasury officials had been "overwhelmingly supportive" of the bank and its staff in public and private in recent months.
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#1348802022-06-07
UNDP, EU, Sweden stand by Cambodia Climate Change Alliance
The UNDP, the EU, and the government of Sweden have been working through the Cambodia Climate Change Alliance to support the country in developing multi-sectoral plans with concrete and ambitious commitments to the global climate agenda.
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#1348812022-06-07
EU commits to more support for Jamaica to fight climate change
The European Union (EU) delegation to Jamaica has underscored its commitment to continue helping the island to implement measures that will lessen the possibly devastating impact of climate change.
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#1348822022-06-07
Global crises undermine efforts to get climate talks back to normal
Climate negotiators crave a return to “normality” when global warming dominated the agenda — but war, hunger and disease overshadowed the beginning of talks in Bonn, Germany Monday.
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#1348892022-06-07
UN official set to tell Dublin conference Ireland must step up effort to address biodiversity loss
All countries including Ireland need to scale up ambition and actions to halt global biodiversity loss, according to Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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#1348912022-06-07
In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid
It was a banner moment at COP26, one of the climate summit’s headline achievements. On stage, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo as the two put their pens to paper.
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#1348182022-06-02
NTPC releases Biodiversity Policy for conservation and restoration of biodiversity
NTPC Ltd, India’s largest integrated energy producer has issued renewed Biodiversity Policy 2022 to establish a comprehensive vision and guiding principle for conservation, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity.
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#1348272022-06-02
EU must go beyond weak global rules in its regulation of shipping emissions
If international shipping were a country, its emissions would be the sixth largest in the world – larger than Germany’s. The EU is thankfully beginning to regulate these emissions through a number of policy proposals under negotiation, including a marine fuel standard (the FuelEU Maritime) and a ...
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#1348292022-06-02
China unveils three major climate change documents in three days, doubling down on clean energy buildout plans
China this week released three top-level documents on fighting climate change, doubling down on its plan to produce more renewable power and expand green financing to meet the country’s carbon neutrality goals by 2060.
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#1348352022-06-02
Stockholm+50: Legacies of 1972 Conference and Challenges Ahead
As the world community prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm+50), which lay the foundation for modern environmental diplomacy, a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution is puttin ...
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#1348372022-06-02
Coalition scrapped recovery plans for 176 threatened species and habitats in one of its final acts
Recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of almost 180 threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil, were scrapped by the Coalition in one of Sussan Ley’s final acts as environment minister.
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#1348412022-06-02
Endangered animals to be protected in Quang Ngai, Dong Nai provinces
The People’s Committee of central province of Quang Ngai has assigned the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to work with relevant agencies and localities for measures and a plan on preserving rare monkeys on Hon Tra Island in Binh Son district’s Binh Dong Commune.
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#1348092022-06-01
The sustainability movement is 50. Why are world leaders ignoring it?
Sustainability is now a household term, but it wasn’t always so. Fifty years ago, the United Nations held its Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. This landmark event gave the concept of sustainable development its first international recognition. Sweden and the UN are marking the o ...
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#1347692022-05-31
Species recovery targets in England damaging and illogical, scientists warn
The government has set damaging and illogical targets for species recovery in England that could mean there is eight years of decline before any improvement, despite already being at “rock bottom”, scientists have warned the prime minister.
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#1347732022-05-31
50 years of UN environmental diplomacy: What’s worked and the trends ahead
In 1972, acid rain was destroying trees. Birds were dying from DDT poisoning, and countries were contending with oil spills, contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the environmental harm of the Vietnam War. Air pollution was crossing borders and harming neighboring countries.
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#1347762022-05-31
Tiny Pacific island nation declares bold plan to protect 100% of its ocean
The Pacific island state of Niue has announced that it will protect 100% of the ocean in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which spans 317,500 sq km (122,000 sq miles), roughly the area of Vietnam.
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#1347242022-05-27
Ministers Guilbeault and Wilkinson advance climate action, energy security and environmental protection at G7 Ministerial
When it comes to keeping our air clean and protecting our planet, the world can't afford to take a step back. As the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers Meeting took place in Berlin, Germany this week, the world is under pressure to take urgent climate action in a way that addresses ene ...
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#1347302022-05-27
German judges visit Peru glacial lake in unprecedented climate crisis lawsuit
In a global first for climate breakdown litigation, judges from Germany have visited Peru to determine the level of damage caused by Europe’s largest emitter in a case that could set a precedent for legal claims over human-caused global heating.
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#1347362022-05-27
Britain is paving the way for gene-edited food – will the public stomach it?
At the height of the anti-GM movement, in 1999, the then head of Greenpeace UK, Peter Melchett, was charged with theft and criminal damage after scything down a field of genetically modified maize.
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#1347372022-05-27
Ivory ban loophole means elephant body parts can still be traded in UK
Elephant skins, feet, ears and tails will continue to be traded in the UK even after next month’s ivory ban comes into force, it has been revealed.
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#1347452022-05-27
‘Time running out’: US, Germany intensify climate change fight
Deal will see the two nations develop and deploy technologies to speed up the clean energy transition, particularly in the areas of offshore wind power, zero-emissions vehicles and hydrogen.
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#1347652022-05-27
Time to put monetary value on conservation, says Gabon
A key UN summit this year must give biodiversity the same priority as climate change and press ahead with putting a financial value on natural resources, Gabon's environment minister says.
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#1346792022-05-25
Egypt says climate finance must be top of agenda at Cop27 talks
Financial assistance for developing countries must be at the top of the agenda for UN climate talks this year, the host country, Egypt, has made clear, as governments will be required to follow through on promises made at the Cop26 summit last year.
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#1346852022-05-25
How two Goldman prize winners won landmark rulings in Dutch courts
The road to a landmark legal victory compelling the Dutch government to take climate action began a decade ago when the 2022 Goldman prize winner Marjan Minnesma received an official letter saying the government did not want to be a frontrunner in tackling the climate crisis.
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#1346862022-05-25
Government sends gene-edited food bill to Parliament
The government introduces a bill to Parliament on Wednesday paving the way for genetically edited plants and animals to be grown and raised for food in England.
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#1346992022-05-25
After many false dawns, Australians finally voted for stronger climate action. Here’s why this election was different
Before the 2019 federal election, many people expected Australia would vote for faster climate action. That, of course, didn’t happen. But just three years later, the climate election arrived at last. The question is – what changed?
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#1347022022-05-25
Poor planning, persistent farming undermine mangrove restoration in Tanzania
Tanzania’s Rufiji Delta is arguably the mangrove capital of East Africa, home to around 55,000 hectares (135,900 acres) of mangrove forest. In the face of the climate crisis, mangroves like this play an important role sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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#1347092022-05-25
Biodiversity law: Amend with caution
The Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was introduced in parliament last year and is being studied by a joint parliamentary committee now, has raised concerns among parliamentarians, experts and organisations that work for the protecti...
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#1347102022-05-25
Minister Guilbeault begins climate and environment meetings in Europe to advance international cooperation
Canada is driving ambitious action with international partners to fight climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. To keep delivering for people around the world, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will advance Canada's leadership internationally ...
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#1347232022-05-25
UN's Elizabeth Mrema: 'China is doing a lot on biodiversity protection'
Elizabeth Mrema, a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer and the first African woman to be appointed as the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, sat down with CGTN on the sidelines of Davos 2022.
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#1346722022-05-24
New bill seeks to restore biodiversity in UK
Proposed legislation, the Climate and Ecology Bill, which would put in place climate and biodiversity targets, is going to be introduced in the House of Lords tomorrow.
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#1346732022-05-24
With Nature in Crisis, State Lawmakers Call for National Biodiversity Plan
State lawmakers from around the country are calling on the Biden administration to develop a plan to protect the country's dwindling diversity of animals and plants.
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#1345732022-05-19
The world has wronged its oceans, but 2022 can be the year for redemption, says UN
With every breath we take, we are connected to the ocean. The ocean gives us oxygen, provides us with food and livelihoods. It stabilises our climate, absorbing most of the heat trapped in the Earth’s system. Billions of humans, animals and plants rely on a healthy ocean. But the ocean’s health ...
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#1345832022-05-19
UK has approved several fossil fuel projects since Cop26, analysis finds
Several major UK fossil fuel projects have been approved since Cop26 concluded, an analysis has found, while about 50 schemes are thought to be in the pipeline between now and 2025.
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#1345962022-05-19
Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business
The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth's surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water.
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#1345352022-05-18
Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories
Illegal miners expanded their footprint in Indigenous territories in Brazil by nearly 500% between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent report from the research collective MapBiomas. It also shows that illegal miners boosted their presence in conservation units by 301% during the same period.
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#1345032022-05-17
Conservation of wildlife biodiversity will provide many benefits to the livelihood
Secretary of State for the Ministry of Environment Neth Pheaktra said that the more effective protection and conservation of wildlife biodiversity will provide many benefits to the livelihoods of local people.
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#1345092022-05-17
We must end our command-and-control relationship with the environment if we are to arrest its destruction
It’s 1996 and I’m in my last year of undergraduate studies at James Cook University, in Townsville. World coral expert Prof Terry Hughes cautions our class that on current trajectories, climate change and coral bleaching threaten destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
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#1345192022-05-17
‘Wildlife-friendly’ infrastructure rules in Nepal and India ignore the birds
Nepal’s government has recently adopted guidelines to make infrastructure such as roads, dams and railway lines wildlife-friendly, following pressure from conservationists and NGOs.
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#1345242022-05-17
How climate law can help to prevent the next pandemic
Two of the biggest crises humanity faces — pandemics and climate change — are intertwined. Climate change boosts many health risks, including the likelihood that new viruses will spill over to cause dangerous outbreaks.
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#1344702022-05-16
Record number of dams removed from Europe’s rivers in 2021
At least 239 barriers, including dams and weirs, were removed across 17 countries in Europe in 2021, in a record-breaking year for dam removals across the continent.
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#1344742022-05-16
COP26 chief: Leaders must do more to honour climate promises
Global leaders have not done enough to honour commitments made at the COP26 climate summit, its president has said. Alok Sharma said more must be done to hit the targets agreed in Glasgow, warning that failure would be "an act of monstrous self-harm".
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#1344882022-05-16
Policy Watch: Why we need a joined-up approach to tackling biodiversity loss, desertification and climate change
We need tree-planting, we need renewables, and we need fossil-free fuels. But in our efforts to tackle the climate emergency, are we forgetting the soil beneath our feet?
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#1344302022-05-13
How Municipalities are Tackling Food Waste and Climate Change
Food and climate change are increasingly becoming advocacy issues tied together, according to speakers at the WasteExpo session, “Municipal and State Food Waste Policy as a Lever for Tackling Climate Change.”
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#1344322022-05-13
Joy for environmentalists as California blocks bid for $1.4bn desalination plant
A California coastal panel on Wednesday rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4b seawater desalination plant to turn Pacific Ocean water into drinking water as the state grapples with persistent drought that is expected to worsen in coming years with climate change.