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Recognizing the “immediate and dreadful” impact of the coronavirus, the UN chief urged everyone to “work together to save lives, ease suffering and lessen the shattering economic and social consequence”. At the same time, he observed that climate disruption is approaching “a point of no return” ...
The villagers walk down the grassy landing strip, past the wooden hut housing the health post and into the thick forest, pointing out the seedlings they planted along the way.
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has called for Scotland’s new farming policy to recognise native livestock and equine breeds for their biodiversity significance, In a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation paper on a new national agricultural policy, RBST pointed out that the ...
Plastic production will increase by 20,000% in 40 years if we keep things how they are. Plastic is everywhere. Over the years it became one of the most used material, and it got to a point where the cars and planes we travel on are made at 50% by plastic, or where it is more common for clothes t ...
8 July 2007, Paris, France
Non-commercial research focused on improving our understanding of natural systems, is crucially important to underpin the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity. This is especially true for the, as yet, largely unexplored marine environment. In relation to Article 8a of the Nagoya Protoc ...
At some point during human evolution, a handful of genetic changes triggered a dramatic threefold expansion of the brain's neocortex, the wrinkly outermost layer of brain tissue responsible for everything from language to self-awareness to abstract thought.
Delegates at UN biodiversity conference turn to Beijing to avoid point of no return
The proportion of good quality surface water in China reached 74.9 percent at the end of 2019, up 3.9 percentage points compared to a year earlier, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Friday.
CURITIBA – 19 January 2006. Never before in human history has the rate of biodiversity loss been so great. The rate of loss of biodiversity now exceeds 100 times natural rates. For some experts we are on the eve of the greatest extinction crisis. Humans are changing environments to the poin ...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels today are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years or more. During a year when terms like carbon neutrality and net zero have become more and more commonly used, it appears the world is waking up to the imperative underscored in every high-level climate asse ...
The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of the human experience it isn’t transforming.
The Door of No Return is worn smooth, the rust-hued stone frame eroded by the chained feet that shuffled through it to waiting ships. From the 15th to the 19th century, Senegal’s Island of Gorée was a departure point for some of the millions who suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.
2021 is already shaping up as an important year for climate change mitigation. As scientist and author Michael E. Mann wrote in Newsweek a few days ago, this year could well mark the tipping point for climate action. This is in no small degree a result of the US rejoining the 2015 Paris Agreemen ...
Climate change is one of the most important global environmental Issues impacting natural ecosystems and socioeconomic systems. For instance, climate change affects forest ecosystems primarily in three ways: firstly, forest ecosystems through land use change contribute about 20% of the global C0 ...
Britain’s record-breaking summer heat last year is set to happen more regularly and with more intensity because of climate change.That’s the conclusion of a study by the U.K.’s Met Office of the summer of 2018, which was tied for the hottest in more than a century. The report adds to a growing b ...
The CAT Climate Governance series seeks to produce a practical framework for assessing a government’s readiness - both from an institutional and governance point of view - to ratchet up climate policy and implement adequate transformational policies on the ground, to enable the required economy- ...
Thousands of migratory birds have failed to make their annual visit to Albania's western coast this winter, experts say, pointing to climate change, overfishing and urbanisation as likely factors.
Farm co-ops in Rwanda have warned that prolonged drought due to climate change have hit their production levels.In a new document from the country’s National Cooperatives Federation, Climate change impact on agriculture, the sector points to other climate-related problems, with damage to infrast ...
On Friday, COP26 came to a close in Glasgow. Though assessment of its success or failure remains a point of contentious discussion, we are delighted that Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO)’s COP26 Health Programme ...
Every day brings fresh and ever more alarming news about the state of the global environment. To speak of mere "climate change" is inadequate now, for we are in a "climate emergency". It seems as though we are tripping over more tipping points than we knew existed.
Another year, another climate record broken. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. This was all the more remarkable given that cool conditions in the Pacific Ocean – known as La Niña – began to emerge in the second half of the year. The Earth’s mean surface temperature ...
Abrupt changes in ice core samples and other records indicate dramatic changes in climate occurred at certain points in the past. In Chaos, climate scientists identify abrupt transitions in climate records that may have been caused by the climate system crossing a tipping point.
Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night.
Power point presentation of our work in Toyooka, Japan, by mayor of Toyooka and panel presentation. If possible, "Onigiri" rice ball made from Organic rice will be distributed to participants.
<br>The goal of this side-event is to give participants an understanding of resilience theory, panarchy, socio-ecological systems, adaptive ecosystem management and its application to ecosystem approaches to management of natural resources as developed by the Resilience Alliance (RA). These po ...
Competent National Authorities and National Focal Points
Reference: SCBD/EDM/NB/54947 (2006-039)
To: National Focal Points, Business and biodiversity contacts
The purpose of this Notification is to invite all focal points, businesses and other interested organizations, to submit information including case studies, reports and other material suitable for online posting, in the context of decision VIII/17 of the Conference of the Parties on private-sect ...
English Spanish FrenchC'est une réunion pour les Ministres et les Chefs des Délégations Francophones pour l'échange autour des enjeux liés aux points inscrits sur l'agenda des négociations à la CdP 10
13 - 17 December 2010, Saint-Leu, France
Seeing that e.g. - plants bloom at an earlier time the growing season is extended butterfly species from more southern parts of Europe show up in the Nordic nature the fishermen more frequent get tropical fishes in their nets cold-water species like cod and plaice are reduced in numbe ...
UN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing.
A new study tracking the planet’s vital signs has found that many of the key indicators of the global climate crisis are getting worse and either approaching, or exceeding, key tipping points as the earth heats up.
17 June 2010, Oujda, Monaco
Reference: SCBD/SEL/OH/MRe/58085 (2007-047)
To: National Focal Points, relevant international organizations and initiatives, Convention Secretariats
I am pleased to inform you that, after a comprehensive consultative process, and with the financial support of the Government of Germany, the Secretariat has finalized a users’ manual entitled "Managing Tourism and Biodiversit", which is accessible at: <a href='/doc/programmes/socio-eco/tourism ...
English
Reference: SCBD/NP/VN/jh/84407 (2015-036)
To: ABS National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where ABS focal points have not yet been designated)
Ocean life is increasingly threatened: offshore drilling has polluted ocean waters while overfishing has stripped fish populations of their abundance, pushing stocks to the point of collapse.
Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/74557 (2010-220)
To: Ministers of the Environment of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the European Commissioner for the Environment
In decision X/1 of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan from 18 to 29 October 2010, Parties to the Convention and other States and regional economic integration organizations were urged to “designate ...
English Spanish French
Reference: SCBD/SEL/VN/GD/62064 (2008-010)
To: CBD National Focal Points that have not yet nominated an ABS NFP (see attached list)
At its fifth meeting, the Conference of the Parties requested “Parties to designate a national focal point and one or more competent national authorities, as appropriate, to be responsible for access and benefit-sharing arrangements or to provide information on such arrangements within its juris ...
English French
Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/VN/SG/69954 (2009-177)
To: CBD National Focal Points that have not yet nominated an ABS NFP
At its fifth meeting, the Conference of the Parties requested “Parties to designate a national focal point and one or more competent national authorities, as appropriate, to be responsible for access and benefit-sharing arrangements or to provide information on such arrangements within its juris ...
English
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/JL/JG/86223 (2017-005)
To: CBD National Focal Points
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points
With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also available in Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/200 ...
English
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/va/65011 (2008-124)
To: CBD National Focal Points
In paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, the Conference of the Parties requested “ Parties to designate a national focal point for the programme of work on protected areas in support of the Convention's national focal point to facilitate the effective and coordinated development and implementation o ...
English Spanish French
Reference: SCBD/NP/SBG/jh/83998 (2014-113)
To: CBD National Focal Points of countries that have ratified/acceded/approved the Nagoya Protocol on ABS
In accordance with Article 8j of the CBD, the 2010 Targets identify Focal Area 5, "Status of traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices" as one of the key areas for the development of indicators relevant to the goal to “achieve a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity l ...
Thanks to The Sunday Gleaner (May 22, 2021) for the story re the sea defence works on the Palisadoes tombolo, pointing out the all-too-common situation that the mitigation measures identified as necessary to avoid environmental damage have not been done 10 years later.
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