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#130729
2021-10-13

Countries Call for Urgent Action on Biodiversity With 'Kunming Declaration'

More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making but they stopped short of committing to specific targets to curb mass extinctions.

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#130759
2021-10-13

Countries call for urgent action on biodiversity with 'Kunming Declaration'

More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making but they stopped short of committing to specific targets to curb mass extinctions.

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#130765
2021-10-13

Countries call for urgent action on biodiversity with 'Kunming

More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making but they stopped short of committing to specific targets to curb mass extinctions. Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu told delegates to a U.N. Biodiversity Conf ...

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#130681
2021-10-12

China pledges US$230 million for biodiversity fund at UN meet

The weeklong meeting marks the formal start of a new round of global talks on protecting the world's plants and animals from extinction. A second and final session that will try to agree on targets for the next 10 years is scheduled to be held in Kunming from April 25 to May 8 next year.

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#130689
2021-10-12

COP15: vice-premier vows more ambitious biodiversity plans for China

Han Zheng declares in conference opening ceremony China will ‘make the protection of biodiversity an important task’. COP15’s aim for specific biodiversity targets helps quantify results and maintain accountability, says director of China’s Institute of Science and Development

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#130633
2021-10-11

China eyes biodiversity framework

With most of the world's biodiversity targets for the past decade unfulfilled, the world's eyes are on China for an ambitious and achievable post-2020 global framework as it hosts a key United Nations biodiversity summit.

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#130644
2021-10-11

In harmony we grow

China has over-fulfilled three of the 2020 global biodiversity targets (the Aichi targets) and made progress on 13 targets, none of which have been fully met globally. Our solutions are in nature.

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#130654
2021-10-11

Biodiversity COP: 6 things you need to know

Leaders from across the world are convening this week as part of the UN COP15 biodiversity conference, which kicks off with high-level talks aimed at setting global targets to reverse biodiversity loss. Here’s what you need to know.

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#130614
2021-10-06

Australia must increase 2030 emissions target to help avoid ‘catastrophic’ heating, Samoan PM says

Australia needs to increase the ambition of its 2030 emissions reduction target and “come back to the climate financing table” at the looming Cop26 talks in Glasgow, according to the prime minister of Samoa.

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#130621
2021-10-06

In Half-Earth Project, a full-on bid to get countries to protect biodiversity

As the world grapples with unparalleled rates of deforestation and extinction, an increasing number of governments and other entities are recognizing the importance of protecting 30% of the land and oceans by 2030. In fact, this goal is listed as a target in the first draft of the post-2020 glob ...

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#130576
2021-09-30

The New ‘Con’ in Conservation: Why the Proposed Voluntary, Paris Agreement-Style, ‘30×30’ Target for Protected Areas Won’t Save the World’s Biodiversity

The idea of increasing to 30% the portion of Earth’s lands and seas designated as protected areas by 2030 (‘30×30’) has become a rallying cry for conservationists.

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#130550
2021-09-23

FEATURED: Tracking Rwanda’s progress towards biodiversity conservation targets

Rwanda made remarkable achievements in biodiversity conservation from 2016 to 2020 according to the 6th report on the status of implementing the ‘Biological Diversity Convention’.

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#130515
2021-09-22

Climate change: Wildlife and plant species decline 'a crisis'

Stopping the decline in wildlife and plant species is as important as tackling climate change, the head of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has said. Clare Pillman said nature was in "crisis" and new targets were needed. All five of the UK's environment watchdogs - including NRW - have published a ...

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#130376
2021-09-13

Scientists use gene editing tool to target mosquito-spread disease

A new gene editing tool has been successfully applied to the southern house mosquito by researchers at the BBSRC-funded Pirbright Institute. This paves the way for genetic control methods that could prevent the mosquito from spreading human and animal diseases.

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#130264
2021-09-03

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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#130268
2021-09-03

Over 2.5 million hours of sea bottom trawling ploughed Europe’s ‘protected’ areas in 2020

As the global nature conservation community gathers in Marseille for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, at which marine protection targets will be discussed, Oceana releases new data revealing how EU countries continue to allow destructive fishing in Europe’s supposedly ‘protected’ areas and ...

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#130269
2021-09-03

South Africa: Ninety Landowners Help Vultures to Reclaim their Karoo Home

The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) proudly announces the declaration of the first official Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) in the Karoo, just in time for International Vulture Awareness Day on 4 September. A Vulture Safe Zone is an area in which landowners and communities work collaboratively to implem ...

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#130179
2021-09-01

Setting biodiversity and climate targets for national conservation action by 2030 in Asia

A research team led by Prof. Ma Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS), in collaboration with scientists from multiple universities and research institutions, developed a scalable framework to identify complementary biodiversity and climate targets that ar ...

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#130075
2021-08-19

Facebook pledges to restore more water than it uses by 2030 as part of effort to combat climate change

Facebook announced plans Thursday to restore more water than it consumes by the year 2030, the company’s latest initiative targeting climate change.

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#129998
2021-08-18

African scientists call for policy shift to attain biodiversity targets

The attainment of biodiversity restoration targets agreed by the international community, governments and donors will be realized subject to policy reforms, sufficient funding and greater community involvement, African scientists said in a study released in Nairobi on Tuesday.

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#129962
2021-08-16

Feeding the future: facts and figures

Even before COVID-19 unleashed itself on the globe, the world had swerved off course to meet its target of zero hunger by 2030. Hunger is increasing, while nutritious food remains out of reach for many of the world’s poorest.

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#129975
2021-08-16

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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#3103
2021-08-13

Invitation to the webinar on "Proposed headline indicators for nature’s contribution to people (Goal B and Targets 8-12 of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework)" - 19 August 2021

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/JC/KM/89814 (2021-057)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

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#129924
2021-08-13

Treasury blocking green policies key to UK net zero target

The Treasury is blocking green policies essential to put the UK on track to net zero emissions, imperilling the UK’s own targets and the success of vital UN climate talks, experts have told the Guardian.

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#129947
2021-08-13

Integrate biodiversity targets from local to global levels

Decisions to be made at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will shape biodiversity conservation approaches for the next 30 years, a critical time for the future of nature and people.

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#129825
2021-08-09

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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#129697
2021-07-27

Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

Global support is growing for the 30 × 30 movement — a goal to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030. In May, the G7 group of wealthy nations endorsed the commitment to this target that had been made by more than 50 countries in January. It is likely to be the headline goal when parties to the Conv ...

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#129707
2021-07-27

What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean?

Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships. Take a look around your home and you’ll likely find plenty of goods that traveled by cargo ship to your doorstep. A set of IKEA plates made in China. A dresser full of pandemic-era loungewear, ordered on Target an ...

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#129671
2021-07-26

How the North is doing when it comes to Canada's climate targets

The North accounts for a "very small fraction" of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions, but a new climate change report says the territories should still be setting more ambitious reduction targets.

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#129677
2021-07-26

Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

Global support is growing for the 30 × 30 movement — a goal to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030. In May, the G7 group of wealthy nations endorsed the commitment to this target that had been made by more than 50 countries in January. It is likely to be the headline goal when parties to the Conv ...

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#129614
2021-07-22

Targeted removals and enhanced monitoring can help manage lionfish in the Mediterranean

Targeted removals can be effective in suppressing the number of invasive lionfish found within protected coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.

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#129593
2021-07-21

EU environment ministers on new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and pollinator protection

On the second day of the informal meeting of EU environment and climate change ministers in Slovenia, discussions addressed the new proposal of global targets for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The ministers also discussed the challenges of jointly strengthening pollinator protecti ...

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#129531
2021-07-12

Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions

In 2015, 170 countries worldwide adopted the Paris Agreement, with the goal limiting the average global temperature increase to 1.5°C. Following the agreement, many countries and cities proposed targets for greenhouse gas mitigation. However, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020 shows that, withou ...

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#129532
2021-07-12

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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#129494
2021-07-09

Joint CO2 targets must not diminish German industry, CDU leader warns EU

The frontrunner to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor has warned the EU that joint greenhouse gas targets must not come at the cost of diminishing the prowess of German industry, signalling a reluctance to join carbon reduction schemes planned in other European countries.

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#129511
2021-07-09

‘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.

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#129468
2021-07-07

How protected are protected areas?

On the face of it, efforts to boost the amount of land and sea officially conserved for nature are going well. Since governments signed up to the Aichi biodiversity targets in 2010, almost 21 million square kilometres – an area larger than the Russian Federation – have been given new protected s ...

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#129426
2021-06-28

Protecting 30 per cent of the earth by 2030 would threaten indigenous peoples

LATELY, it seems like everyone is talking about ‘30x30’. The US president, Joe Biden, recently committed the country to protecting 30 per cent of its lands and waters by 2030. At the next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, world leaders are widely expected to embrace a global 30x ...

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#129325
2021-06-15

The ‘green influencers’ targeting the TikTok generation

Social media platforms are no longer just for selfies and blogs but a place “to organise and educate” people about the climate crisis, according to YouTube star turned activist filmmaker Jack Harries.

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#129155
2021-06-08

Ambitious $104 million program targets land degradation in Africa and Central Asian countries

Launch of the FAO-led, Global Environment Facility-funded initiative paves the way for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate change, fragile ecosystems, ...

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#129024
2021-06-02

New study suggests falcons have natural 'eye makeup' to improve hunting ability

Dark 'eyeliner' feathers of peregrine falcons act as sun shields to improve the birds' hunting ability, a new scientific study suggests.Scientists have long speculated that falcons' eye markings improve their ability to target fast-moving prey, like pigeons and doves, in bright sunlight.

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#128958
2021-06-01

Investments in nature must triple by 2030 to help save ecosystems, UN report says

The world must triple its investments in nature-based solutions by 2030 and quadruple them by 2050 in order to meet the climate change, biodiversity and land degradation targets of the three Rio Conventions, according to a new UN report.

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#128919
2021-05-31

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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#128872
2021-05-27

Investigation of Ireland’s farm biodiversity baseline begins

Habitat surveys will be carried out on about 8,000 farms, in a pilot scheme first phase of a comprehensive analysis of farm habitats and biodiversity, which will eventually provide a baseline on which to base future targeting of agri-environmental schemes and measures.

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#128876
2021-05-27

As The World Enters Critical Climate Change Talks, Experts Say We Will Hit The Hottest Year On Record By 2025

We will likely surpass the world’s hottest year on record within the next few years, trajecting dangerously closer to the lower target of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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#128801
2021-05-25

EU leaders shelve request on design of climate change targets

European Union leaders on Tuesday shelved an attempt to direct how the bloc will set new national targets for emissions cuts, weeks before Brussels is due to propose a huge package of tougher climate change policies.

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#128756
2021-05-22

Our health depends on nature’s health: 20 Aichi targets to restore balance on Earth

A scorned bat out of hell has been strafing our world, with the bearing of a truly global phenomenon, next only to climate change in its outreach, leaving behind death, distress, and economic debris on a scale that is next only to manmade wars. Biologists have been pulling out research notes to ...

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#128703
2021-05-17

Germany launches $1 billion biodiversity fund after world misses targets

Germany has launched a $1 billion fund which aims to halt global biodiversity loss and provide long-term financial support for protected areas across three continents.

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#128623
2021-05-14

Environment Bill must commit to reverse nature loss by 2030

Committing to reverse nature loss by 2030 is an opportunity for us to show environmental leadership by becoming the first country to set an ambitious legally-binding target for nature’s recovery.

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#128602
2021-05-12

The world needs a standard tool to compare species conservation efforts. An international team just built one.

In 2010, the Convention on Biodiversity proposed a list of 20 targets aimed at preserving global biodiversity—from increasing public awareness to preventing species extinctions. The targets were part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020.

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