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#1297762021-07-29
UNEP Says A Global Agreement is Needed to Address Plastic Pollution
This month is Plastic Free July which is celebrated across the globe. It encourages millions of people to be part of the solution to the single-use plastic waste problem at home, work, school, and even at restaurants. So, we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities.
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#1296972021-07-27
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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#1296772021-07-26
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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#1296802021-07-26
Nature’s Paris moment: does the global bid to stem wildlife decline go far enough?
Can nature have its own Paris moment? It’s the question facing countries negotiating a new United Nations agreement aimed at stemming the global loss of wildlife.Last week, the UN convention on biological diversity released the latest draft of an agreement that would unite countries behind a sha ...
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#1296622021-07-23
How food prices are affected by oil, trade agreements and climate change
Concerns about inflation rates have risen as the UK economy begins its much-needed recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The Consumer Prices Index, the measure most commonly used to measure inflation, rose by 2.5% in June 2021, the highest level for three years.
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#1296232021-07-22
How food prices are affected by oil, trade agreements and climate change
Concerns about inflation rates have risen as the UK economy begins its much-needed recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The Consumer Prices Index, the measure most commonly used to measure inflation, rose by 2.5% in June 2021, the highest level for three years.
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#1295122021-07-12
A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts
Montreal, 12 July 2021 – The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat today 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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#1295162021-07-12
New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts
Still a work in progress, the Global Biodiversity Framework will ultimately advance to UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 for consideration by 196 member parties. 21 targets, 10 ‘milestones’ proposed for 2030 en route to ‘living in harmony with nature’ by 2050; Include conserving and ...
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#1295172021-07-12
Draft UN biodiversity agreement falls short, says WWF
In response to the publication today of the first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, WWF expresses concern that the world is failing to adequately respond to the nature crisis, thereby also jeopardising our ability to tackle the climate crisis and endangering the resources we ...
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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.
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#1292712021-06-14
G7 leaders agree environmental commitments
At the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall, countries have come together and agreed a shared G7 Nature Compact. This is a key agreement which brings G7 countries together to address the most pressing international and interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Leaders have also a ...
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#1293072021-06-14
Australia joins global biodiversity alliance
The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed the Morrison government’s recognition of the need for a strong global agreement at this year’s UN biodiversity conference with its decision to join the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People.
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#1290852021-06-04
Biodiversity talks are running out of time for robust deal, says top diplomat
Biodiversity negotiators are running out of time to land a robust agreement to protect the planet’s plants and wildlife this decade, a top diplomat has warned.
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#1290862021-06-04
Is carbon the 'crop' of the future?
An increasing awareness and concern about the environment, changes in government policy, America's re-entry into the Paris Agreement and a robust demand for carbon offsets all point toward an appetite for a different type of agricultural crop—carbon.
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#1290292021-06-02
A new way of comparing greenhouse gases could help us meet Paris Agreement goals
According to the Paris Agreement, the world needs to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to strive toward a 1.5°C increase above pre-industrial levels. How can we meet this goal at the lowest cost?
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#1289262021-05-31
Biodiversity boosting: Table Mountain receives R20 million in French funding
Biodiversity in South Africa is receiving a much-needed boost.As per News24, a bipartite agreement has been signed as of yesterday, Sunday 30 May. The agreement outlines a partnership between South Africa and France which aims to spearhead environmental diplomatic measures for both countries.
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#1288762021-05-27
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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#1289002021-05-27
New framework to enhance national climate action and achieve global goals
With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight.
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#1285712021-05-12
Paris climate agreement overlooks wood pellet loophole
With the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, and with governments across the country evaluating how they can cut carbon emissions, a question remains about one contentious "carbon neutral" energy source: Wood pellets.
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#1284452021-05-06
We can’t stop rising sea levels, but we still have a chance to slow them down
Sea levels are going to rise, no matter what. This is certain. But newresearch I helped produce shows how much we could limit the damage: sea level rise from the melting of ice could be halved this century if we meet the Paris agreement target of keeping global warming to 1.5C.
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#1283822021-05-02
UN Biodiversity Conference virtual meetings to address key Cartagena Protocol Biosafety issues
Montreal, 2 May 2021 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides international rules that seek to ensure an adequate level of protection to biodiversity and human health, focusing on transboundary movements of living modifi ...
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#1283792021-04-30
Redirect harmful subsidies to benefit the planet, UN urges governments
Billions of pounds of environmentally harmful government subsidies must be redirected to benefit nature, the United Nation’s biodiversity chief has said, before the restart of negotiations on an international agreement to set new targets for protecting nature
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#1280652021-04-20
China-US cooperation crucial to global climate change efforts
Delegates at the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2021 commended the agreement between China and the United States to cooperate on climate change, stressing the crucial role of their collaboration in tackling the global challenge.
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#1278902021-04-05
President Biden Invites 40 World Leaders to Take Part in an Earth Day Climate Summit
President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the virtual “Leaders’ Summit on Climate” on April 22 and 23 that will be streamed for public viewing. At the summit, the US will announce its 2030 emissions target as its new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement ahead of the ...
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#1277382021-03-19
UN’s Kunming biodiversity summit delayed a second time
A key United Nations summit to negotiate an accord for nature similar to the Paris climate agreement has been postponed for a second time, it has been announced.
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#1277082021-03-16
Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix
Five years ago, the United Nations Paris climate agreement set a ceiling for global warming at well below 2 °C, ideally 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial levels. World leaders also agreed to balance greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of the century, so that the sum of all greenhouse gas ...
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#1276822021-03-15
Bringing the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty Into Port
As President Joe Biden’s administration moves to restore U.S. global leadership on the environment, it cannot afford to ignore the health of oceans. It must spearhead the successful conclusion of negotiations on a U.N. high seas biodiversity convention, which are currently adrift. To bring this ...
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#1275932021-03-08
Global warming could make survival in tropics impossible: Study
Limiting global warming to targets proposed in the Paris Agreement could keep tropical regions from reaching temperatures that are beyond human tolerability, a new study projects.
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#1274852021-03-03
The developing world must get ready to adapt its trade to climate change
The Paris Agreement on climate change is a landmark document for the world. However, despite the immense impact of climate change on trade, and the role it must play in our fight against global warming, the word trade is not mentioned once in the agreement.
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#1273832021-02-26
We are nowhere near keeping warming below 1.5°C despite climate plans
The world is wildly off track meeting the Paris Agreement goal of holding temperature rises to 1.5°C, despite a recent series of more ambitious national climate plans by the European Union, the UK and other countries, a United Nations assessment has found.
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#1273862021-02-26
Climate Change Tracker: Why 2021 is a crucial year to stop global warming
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 ...
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#1273702021-02-25
Canada and British Columbia launch development of a new Nature Agreement
Canada and British Columbia have a long history of shared conservation goals and taking leadership together on climate change, environmental protection, and conservation. Now the two governments are enhancing this shared commitment by launching the development of a new bilateral Nature Agreement ...
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#1271942021-02-18
OPINION: Everyone is needed in the new global push to protect nature
An ambitious international agreement to protect biodiversity is within reach - but if it is to succeed, business and civil society must play their part, alongside governments
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#1268642021-02-04
Republic of Korea Funds Phase 2 of Bio-Bridge Initiative
4 February 2021 – The Republic of Korea and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have signed a funding agreement for the implementation of the second phase of the Bio-Bridge Initiative (BBI).
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#1268702021-02-04
OPINION: We can’t tackle climate change without indigenous people
Last month, climate change advocates heaved a sigh of relief as President Joe Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change, fulfilling one of the major promises of his campaign within hours of his inauguration. The return to the Paris Agreement is an important, if ...
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#1267972021-02-01
How will COVID-19 ultimately impact climate change?
Business closures. Travel restrictions. Working and learning from home. These and other dramatic responses to COVID-19 have caused sharp reductions in economic activity—and associated fossil fuel consumption—around the world. As a result, many nations are reporting significant reductions in gree ...
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#1267582021-01-29
India among frontline countries in implementing Paris Agreement on climate change: Prez
India is among the frontline nations in implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday, reiterating that environment protection is one of the topmost priorities of the government.
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#1266842021-01-26
EU chief calls for Paris-style biodiversity pact
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Tuesday for a global agreement on protecting biodiversity with the same scale and ambition as the Paris climate pact.
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#1266732021-01-19
Biden to 'hit ground running' as he rejoins Paris climate accords
Joe Biden is set for a flurry of action to combat the climate crisis on his first day as US president by immediately rejoining the Paris climate agreement and blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, although experts have warned lengthier, and harder, environmental battles lie ahead in his presidency.
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#1265172020-12-30
COVID-19 hazard: 1.56 bn masks polluted oceans in 2020, claims study
These masks will take as long as 450 years to break down and all the while serve as a source of micro plastic and negatively impact marine wildlife and ecosystems, says a new report by OceanAsia
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#1265312020-12-30
Ireland signs up to international biodiversity coalition
Ireland has signed up to an international coalition that aims to protect almost a third of the planet’s land and sea area. The announcement was made as part of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People launch today, which aispires to establish an agreement to address the biodiversity crisis.
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#1264302020-12-23
From Brazil: Kiriri manioc flour Slow Food Presidium
The project Empowering Indigenous Youth and their Communities to Defend and Promote their Food Heritage, financed by IFAD, started in 2018 through an agreement between Slow Food, IFAD, and the Kiriri community of Banzaê.
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#1264392020-12-23
South Korea signs pact to support Asian forest cooperation body’s office in Seoul
South Korea forged a formal agreement with the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization to provide support to the international body’s headquarters in Seoul, officials said Wednesday.
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#1263762020-12-21
Rainforests are under siege but indigenous peoples could still save the Amazon
Five years ago, when leaders of 197 countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement on climate, they opened our rainforest homes for business. During negotiations, member states agreed to pull from the pact a brief reference to protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, placing us instead in th ...
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#1262112020-12-14
US to hold world climate summit early next year and seek to rejoin Paris accord
The US will hold a climate summit of the world’s major economies early next year, within 100 days of Joe Biden taking office, and seek to rejoin the Paris agreement on the first day of his presidency, in a boost to international climate action.
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#1262012020-12-11
Tipping point? Experts say the Paris agreement changed the climate on climate
Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. "I've always known we're not going to act as soon as we could have," said Mark Jaccard, a widely consulted energy economist at Simon Fraser University.
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#1261442020-12-10
The climate crisis should be at the heart of the global Covid recovery
In the early hours of 12 December, 2015, I stood together with world leaders to welcome the adoption of the Paris agreement on climate change. Years of negotiations and frustrating setbacks were capped by a two-minute round of applause for French foreign minister Laurent Fabius as he banged the ...
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#1260862020-12-08
The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe?
No one who was in the hall that winter evening in a gloomy conference centre on the outskirts of the French capital will ever forget it. Tension had been building throughout the afternoon, as after two weeks of fraught talks the expected resolution was delayed and then delayed yet again.
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#1260922020-12-08
Pathways to sustainable land use and food systems
The findings of a new report by the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium, suggest that integrated strategies across food production, biodiversity, climate, and diets can meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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#1259822020-12-03
UN secretary general: humanity faces climate 'suicide' without US rejoining Paris agreement
This article originally appeared in the Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The Guardian is the lead partner in CCN.