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#1268512021-02-03
New approaches needed to protect biodiversity as Aichi Targets go unmet
As the planet continues its trajectory into what some have dubbed “the sixth mass extinction,” the diversity of life is on Earth is at risk. The Aichi Biodiversity Targets were established by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in an effort to protect and conserve the biodiversity that ...
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#1299752021-08-16
New global biodiversity goals must take these key lessons into account
A framework to help countries develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of their natural resources is nearing completion. The so-called 'post-2020' global biodiversity framework will provide goals and targets to stem and reverse the decline in nature until 2050.
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#1295442021-07-13
New global framework to manage nature through 2030
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat has released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.
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#1268522021-02-03
New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of a country’s natural resources, or biological diversity. This is a general strategy that all countries must then adopt at the local level.
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#1245962020-03-10
Now Or Never For Saving Our Natural World
The world is at a crossroads. The future of life on our planet – and thus our own – is in jeopardy. Humanity has overreached in its pursuit of affluence. Research shows that we have altered more than 75% of the world’s ice-free land. Over half of the planet’s habitable surface is now used to pro ...
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#1298252021-08-09
One way India could help both landowners and wildlife is by encouraging agroforestry
The United Nations declared the decade of 2021-2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity recently released the first draft of a new framework in the run-up to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) where the next set of global biodiversity targets fo ...
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#1294662021-07-07
Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: ‘Implementation needs more resources’
Developing countries will need resources for proper implementation of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which will include financial support and technology transfer, said ASEAN member states July 5, 2021.
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#1271592021-02-18
Post-2020 global biodiversity framework must focus on sustainable use, strong indicators and the links with human health
With governments meeting this week to discuss targets and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, TRAFFIC urges Parties to strengthen global efforts to ensure trade and use of species is legal, at sustainable levels and safe, and effectively measure progress on the implementa ...
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#1301442021-08-24
Pre COP Biodiversity 2021 Calls For Bold Actions On Land Restoration
An integrated approach and bold measures must be taken to reverse nature loss in the next decade, said Iván Duque Márquez, President of Colombia, during the high-level event at the hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP, on 30th August. Running from the 23rd August to 3rd September the Pre Cop aims to discu ...
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#1326562022-01-19
Reversing destruction of biodiversity should be top priority
Over 50 experts say reversing biodiversity loss will take take more than placing protection on land and sea zones. Setting aside 30% of the worlds land and oceans is just measure one of the 21 targets in the first draft of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), however experts are saying even ...
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#1246952020-03-16
Rome 2020 : Convention Sur la Diversité Biologique
Presque 50 ans après la déclaration de Stockholm sur l'Environnement en 1972, la prise de conscience collective, sur le danger que court notre planète, est bien réelle. Changement de mode vie, engagement associatif ou à l'échelle de collectivités locales également : chacun tente d'apporter sa pi ...
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#1326802022-01-20
Scientists Express Need for Transformative Changes To Halt Biodiversity Loss
More than 50 scientists from 23 countries came together to deliver to governments a synthesis of the science informing and underpinning 21 targets laid out in Aichi Biodiversity Targets. These 21 targets are referred to as post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and are part of the UN Conv ...
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#1326742022-01-20
Scientists Worldwide Call for Immediate Action to Reverse Biodiversity Loss Under 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Halting, then reversing the dangerous ongoing loss of Earth's plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned.
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#1263072020-12-16
Scientists call for a robust goal for species in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Next year, governments of the world will come together to adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Much like the Paris Agreement, with its clear statement on limiting carbon emissions, this framework will establish a se ...
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#1351422022-06-30
Scientists warn deal to save biodiversity is in jeopardy
Some conservation scientists are warning that a global deal to protect the environment is under threat after negotiations stalled during international talks in Nairobi last week. They are calling on global leaders to rescue the talks — and biodiversity — from the brink. Others are more hopeful t ...
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#1301522021-08-31
Secretary-General calls for bold action to end biodiversity crisis
With one million species at risk of extinction, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for greater leadership and political will to end the biodiversity crisis.
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#1301492021-08-31
Should 30% Of Earth’s Land and Sea Areas Be Conserved?
The statistics paint a grim picture: Accelerating species losses, 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of forest destroyed every year, apocalyptic declines in the abundance of some wildlife. The planet is in a biodiversity crisis, with some scientists saying if we keep it up, we may tip into a ...
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#1244682020-03-03
So Far, a Business-as-Usual Plan for Transformational Change
ROME, Italy – Last week, the countries of the world gathered in Rome to discuss their collective global response to the alarming IPBES report indicating that we could lose about 1 millions species to extinction within the next few decades and that the Earth’s natural systems were breaking down, ...
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#1268532021-02-03
Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back
In 1992, global leaders gathered at a United Nations summit in Rio de Janeiro to sign the landmark Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to promote sustainable development. Eighteen years later, at a summit in Aichi, Japan, representatives of 193 countries followed up on the CBD with a 20-goa ...
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#1302642021-09-03
TRAFFIC calls for robust targets, indicators and financial commitments in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
As governments continued discussions on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) and deliberated new targets to replace the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, TRAFFIC welcomed progress on finalising the Framework bu ...
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#1310612021-10-22
The Kunming Declaration & Biodiversity Fund Set a Path toward a More Just Global Biodiversity Framework
In August 2019, in the middle of heavy monsoon rain and floods, my sister Sudakshina Sen (an avid wildlife photographer) and I arrived at the Western Ghats in southwest India, a global biodiversity hotspot.
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#1247222020-03-17
Trinidad and Tobago Struggles to Meet its Biodiversity Targets
Trinidad and Tobago, like many other signatories to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, had made commitments in 2010, to achieve several biological diversity targets during the decade 2011 to 2020, commonly referred to as the Aichi targets. However, achieving most of those tar ...
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#1312312021-10-28
UK will 'pause' publication of data showing biodiversity in decline
Conservationists have criticised the UK government for its decision to temporarily stop publishing new data on the state of the country’s wildlife and habitats in 2022, the same year as a landmark UN biodiversity summit.
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#1320112021-12-02
UN Biodiversity Convention postpones in-person resumed sessions of its two subsidiary bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework
Uncertainties posed by the Omicron variant and resulting travel measures and restrictions force postponement of physical meetings of resumed sessions for SBSTTA-24, SBI-3 and WG2020-3, scheduled to be held in Geneva in January 2022
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#1295332021-07-12
UN plan would protect 30% of oceans and land to stem extinctions
Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by 2030 to stem extinctions and ensure humanity lives in harmony with nature. That is the suggestion from 195 countries in a proposed United Nations plan to tackle the global destruction of nature.
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#1295362021-07-12
UN says protect 30% of land, oceans as biodiversity goals unveiled
The United Nations (UN) on Monday unveiled the first draft text that will form the heart of forthcoming summit negotiations aimed at preserving at least 30 per cent of land and oceans and a host of other biodiversity targets.
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#1295322021-07-12
UN: $200 billion increase in fund flow to developing countries for managing nature
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has demanded an additional $200 billion fund flow to developing countries from various sources to manage nature through 2030. It is one of many demands and targets that have been set through 2030 in the just-released official draft of a ...
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#1266632021-01-19
UNCTAD updates principles to promote biodiversity-friendly trade
Guidelines to help governments, companies and consumers benefit from sustainable trade in precious plants and animals now include elements such as climate resilience and marine biodiversity.
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#1300952021-08-20
UN’s draft plan to protect nature must be amended to put human rights at centre
The UN's draft plan to preserve and protect nature must be amended to put human rights at its centre if we are to ensure the future of life on our planet, David Boyd, UN special rapporteur on human rights and environment, said today.
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#1301202021-08-24
Unprecedented loss of biodiversity: A million species under threat but there are ways to conserve earth’s living systems
Human-induced climate change isn’t just warming the planet to dangerous levels, it’s also threatening the living systems that depend on a stable climate. Add to that centuries of our plundering the natural world for resources and, according to the first draft of a Biodiversity Convention report, ...
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#1256822020-11-13
What birds tell us about building a new global framework for nature
As well as quantifying progress (or failure) and highlighting successes and good news stories in relation to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, data from birds can inform the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and its targets
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#1299382021-08-13
What’s on the horizon for the upcoming Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
In the early 19th century, when Europeans began to settle on the island of Tasmania, around 5,000 of the striped, dog-sized creatures known as Tasmanian tigers roamed the landscape.
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#1289192021-05-31
World Met Target For Protected Area Coverage On Land, But Quality Must Improve
The international community has made major progress towards the global target on protected and conserved area coverage, but has fallen far short on its commitments on the quality of these areas, according to a new report from the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNE ...
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#1295112021-07-09
‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.