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#1189052018-12-06
China urged to lead way in efforts to save life on Earth
Delegates at UN biodiversity conference turn to Beijing to avoid point of no return
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#1314962021-11-04
China urges developed countries to intensify climate change efforts
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday urged developed countries to intensify their efforts to fulfill their commitments to developing countries on climate change, to make due contributions to climate change response and global climate governance.
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#1306532021-10-11
China vows to include biodiversity in economic plans as UN talks begin
China – China will incorporate biodiversity protection in the development plans of all of its regions and sectors and draw up a national conservation strategy, Vice Premier Han Zheng said at the opening of U.N. biodiversity talks on Monday.
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#1306792021-10-12
China white paper on biodiversity sets agenda for COP15
The emergence of "ecological civilization" as a major concept to guide humankind in its demanding environmental conservation efforts is not a new concept. Although it appears like the idea is new-fangled, it was first published in the "Scientific Communism, Moscow, Vol. 2" journal in 1984 in an ...
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#1300172021-08-18
China's Kunming City to host first session of COP15 from Oct. 11 to 15
The United Nations (UN) biodiversity conference has been divided into two sessions, with the first being held between October 11 to 15 in China's Kunming City, an official from China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said on Wednesday.
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#1306692021-10-12
China's Xi launches $232 mln biodiversity protection fund for developing countries
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the launch of a 1.5 billion yuan ($232.47 million) fund on Tuesday to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, as talks continue on a new post-2020 global pact to tackle species loss.
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#1309112021-10-16
China's contribution to biological diversity
On October 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the establishment of a fund to support developing countries in biological diversity conservation during the leaders' summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) held in Kunming ...
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#1307222021-10-13
China's experience provides inspiration for biodiversity protection: China Daily
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) that China is hosting in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, from Monday (Oct 11) to Friday has every reason to catch global attention.
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#1308622021-10-15
China's first seeds museum shows charm of biodiversity
China's first seeds museum shows the charm of biodiversity at the Fuligong Biodiversity Experience Park in Kunming city, Southwest China's Yunnan province. Walking into the museum, visitors can see a wall of seeds in 2,040 acrylic cylinders and bottles of seed hanging in the air.
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#1237912020-01-17
China's good surface water quality rose 3.9 percentage points in 2019
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.
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#1302902021-09-03
China, Britain agree to strengthen cooperation on biodiversity
China and Britain have agreed to strengthen cooperation on biodiversity and work with all parties to achieve positive outcomes at global biodiversity conferences, according to a statement published Thursday by the Chinese Embassy in Britain.
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#1307922021-10-14
China-proposed ecological philosophy gains recognition as Kunming Declaration adopted
The Kunming Declaration was adopted Wednesday at the ongoing 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province.Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu declared the adoption of the declara ...
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#1307872021-10-13
China’s commitment to establishing Kunming Biodiversity Fund injects confidence into global biodiversity conservation, say experts
China’s commitment to taking the lead by investing 1.5 billion yuan (about 233 million U.S. dollars) to establish a Kunming Biodiversity Fund is a critical step to continue promoting global ecological civilization, experts and media professionals have said.
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#1308372021-10-15
China’s ecological red line system, BRI to help countries achieve post-2020 targets
China expressed a strong ambition to further strengthen biodiversity protection at the first global meeting convened by the UN on ecological civilization on Monday, and analysts who highlighted China's achievements in and contributions to the global biodiversity agenda believe many of China's pr ...
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#1315902021-11-10
China’s top Cop26 delegate says it is taking ‘real action’ on climate targets
China has detailed and concrete plans on how to meet its climate commitments, and is pushing those plans forward vigorously, unlike some countries that are “paying lip service” to their climate targets, the head of delegation for China at the Cop26 climate talks has said.
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#1308322021-10-15
Chinese strategy offers hope in tackling biodiversity losses
A Chinese mechanism－the ecological conservation red line－could provide an effective solution to tackling global biodiversity losses. Experts said the strategy, which has been successfully adopted in biodiversity programs in China, could cover more species not protected by nature reserves and als ...
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#1306582021-10-11
Civil Society Calls On World Leaders To Put Human Rights At The Centre Of Environmental Policy
In the lead-up to historic agreements on climate and nature being made in the next month, more than 150 civil society and indigenous organisations, and academics, from more than 50 countries, have today published an open letter calling on world leaders to put human rights at the centre of enviro ...
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#1315742021-11-09
Climate activists decry ‘false solutions, fairy tales’ at COP26
Activists criticised plans by corporations and governments to solve the climate change emergency through opaque carbon-trading schemes instead of urgently shutting down fossil fuel production as many scientists recommend.
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#1314322021-11-02
Climate change: Five dealmakers who will influence the outcome at COP26
While Greta Thunberg, Sir David Attenborough and world leaders will attract most of the media attention at COP26, the real work of getting 197 countries to commit to changes will fall to lesser-known diplomats and ministers - the negotiators.
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#1315572021-11-09
Climate change: What do scientists want from COP26 this week?
As the COP26 climate summit enters its second week, negotiations in Glasgow have hit a critical phase. The conference is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. So we asked more than a dozen climate scientists, negotiators and economists from around the world what they ...
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#1297412021-07-28
Climate change: Will extreme weather events galvanise Cop26 summit action? Don't count on it –
For anyone still labouring under the misapprehension that the ruinous legacy of human-driven climate change is something we will bequeath to future generations, this month offered no shortage of startling reminders that the problem is immeasurably more urgent.
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#1315482021-11-08
Climate talks struggle with gap between rich, poor nations
Large rifts remain as United Nations climate talks tick down to a Friday deadline. A lot of the divide comes down to money, which nations have it and which do not. So it's time for the diplomatic cavalry to ride in.
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#1303552021-09-13
Climate, biodiversity and the ‘other COP’
In the coming weeks, the world’s nations will converge under the auspices of the United Nations to address one of the most critical issues of our time — one that has existential implications for every living thing. The decisions made at that summit, and whose views dominate, could be momentous, ...
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#1306802021-10-12
Climate: Northern Ireland needs £5 billion to cut carbon and improve biodiversity says report
Northern Ireland needs an extra £5 billion over the next decade to protect and restore nature, according to a new report. The work by the Green Finance Institute has identified a major investment gap between required spending and that actually committed to delivering net-zero and improving biodi ...
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#1316402021-11-11
Coalition to turn adaptation research into action launches at Cop26 climate talks
The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a group of over 90 organisations from 30 economies driving research and innovation for adaptation that strengthens resilience where it is needed most.
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#1315832021-11-10
Cop26 deal brings support for victims of climate disaster a step closer
A network to help the victims of climate disaster could be up and running within a year, after negotiators struck a deal at Cop26 on what its remit should be.
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#1316192021-11-11
Cop26 draft criticised for lack of financial help for vulnerable countries
Developing countries at the Cop26 climate summit have called for rich nations to come forward with more financial help for vulnerable countries, saying a new draft outcome for the talks is too weak in this regard.
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#1316302021-11-11
Cop26 draft text annotated: what it says and what it means
The draft text is the most important document that will emerge from the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Unlike the last major climate conference, in Paris in 2015, what emerges here will not be a new treaty, but a series of decisions and resolutions that build on the Paris accord.
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#1315672021-11-09
Cop26 is creating false hope for a 1.5C rise – the stark reality is very different
Since the Paris agreement in 2015, countries around the world have promised ambitious action on climate change. Six years later, it is clear that they haven’t followed through on that promise. In the latest analysis carried out by Climate Action Tracker, published today, we find that the vast ma ...
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#1315732021-11-09
Cop26 leaders blame individuals, while supporting a far more destructive system
The protesters gathered in Glasgow for Cop26 are a diverse group – at the demonstration on Saturday I watched everybody file past – from international socialists to Scottish nationalists, healthcare workers to striking refuse workers, from indigenous activists at the very front to cycling enthus ...
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#1315312021-11-08
Cop26 legitimacy questioned as groups excluded from crucial talks
The legitimacy of the Cop26 climate summit has been called into question by civil society participants who say restrictions on access to negotiations are unprecedented and unjust.
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#1314242021-11-02
Cop26 live: Biden launches pledge to cut methane by 30%
Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has told delegates at Cop26 that his trip to space made him realise how “finite and fragile” the Earth is. Bezos said: “I was told that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens from which you view the world. But I was not prepared for just how much that would be ...
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#1314332021-11-02
Cop26 live: focus on finance as Rishi Sunak makes London net zero pledge
The UK’s longest-lasting snow patch, in the Cairngorms in central Scotland, has melted for the eighth time in the past 300 years and the third time in the past five.
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#1314662021-11-03
Cop26 live: world ‘heading for 1.9C of heating’, climate model projects
Rayner brings up the subject of cuts to development aid, which are hampering the climate efforts of poor countries. The government has received a lot of criticism for these cuts, and representatives from developing nations have said the UK is setting a bad example to other countries as Cop26 pre ...
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#1313432021-11-01
Cop26 must be about action, not rhetoric, warns Micheál Martin as crucial climate summit begins
Climate change is “without question” the most serious challenge in our lifetime, an existential crisis if it is not tackled with action instead of rhetoric. Those were the words of Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the United Nations Cop26 climate change event in Glasgow began, with world leaders desc ...
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#1312582021-10-28
Cop26 must focus on poorer countries, says UN development chief
Achim Steiner says failure by UK hosts to recognise developing nations’ concerns could lead to breakdown of talks. Developing countries, many of which are deeply indebted following the Covid-19 crisis, must be the focus of the Cop26 summit if the UK hopes to make it a success, the UN’s developme ...
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#1306242021-10-11
Cop26 must not overshadow Kunming: we need joint climate and biodiversity goals
All eyes are on Cop26 in Glasgow since the climate crisis aroused worldwide attention and compelled more than 120 countries to join the unprecedented global Race to Zero carbon-emissions campaign. But the UN biodiversity conference in Kunming, or Cop15, should not be overshadowed, as biodiversit ...
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#1315582021-11-09
Cop26 news – live: ‘Mountain to climb’, Sharma admits as report shows world on course for 2.4C heating
There is a “mountain to climb” to make the Cop26 summit talks in Glasgow a success, Aloka Sharma has admitted. “We are making progress at Cop26 but we still have a mountain to climb over the next few days,” he told a press briefing held on Tuesday.
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#1315492021-11-09
Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report
The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN Cop26 summit.
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#1313382021-11-01
Cop26 summit at serious risk of failure, says Boris Johnson
The Cop26 climate summit is at serious risk of failure because countries are still not promising enough to restrict global temperature rises to below 1.5C, Boris Johnson has warned.
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#1317102021-11-16
Cop26 took us one step closer to combating the climate crisis
If a bus were hurtling towards a child in the middle of the road, no one nearby would take merely one step to get that child out of the way. They would rush, at speeds previously unbeknownst to them, using every muscle in their body, to get that child to safety.
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#1314732021-11-04
Cop26 will be derailed unless the rich world meets its obligation to the poor
A couple of hundred years ago Britain was not a lot different from many poor countries today. Life expectancy was low, infant mortality was high, living standards barely rose from year to year, water-borne diseases were rife. People worked long hours and life for the struggling was, as Thomas Ho ...
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#1313392021-11-01
Cop26 ‘literally the last chance saloon’ to save planet – Prince Charles
Cop26 is “the last chance saloon” to save the world from runaway climate change, Prince Charles has told world leaders in Rome ahead of the crucial climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1314262021-11-02
Cop26: 'You might as well bomb us,' says president of Palau – video
The president of the Pacific island state of Palau has told the Cop26 summit that parallels could be drawn between the climate crisis and the traditional Palau story of a boy who grew into a giant and 'wouldn’t stop growing ... depleting all the natural resources'.
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#1314362021-11-03
Cop26: Boris Johnson ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reaching 1.5C deal
Boris Johnson has declared he is “cautiously optimistic” about a deal at Cop26 to keep global temperature rises below 1.5C as he urged China to commit to bringing emissions down by 2025.
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#1314822021-11-04
Cop26: Coal in the crosshairs as climate summit stirs clean energy pledges
Indonesia, Poland, Vietnam and other nations have pledged to phase out their use of coal-fired power and to stop building plants, a move that Cop26 climate summit host Britain described as putting the end of the fuel “in sight”.
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#1314012021-11-02
Cop26: Ireland has no choice but to change to hit climate goals, says Martin
Ireland has no choice but to change due to climate change as the consequences “will catch up with us if we don’t do something,” Taoiseach Micheál Martin said from the the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow on Tuesday.
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#1314792021-11-04
Cop26: More than 40 countries agree to phase out coal-fired power – day four live
More than 40 countries have agreed to phase out their use of coal-fired power, the dirtiest fuel source, in a boost to UK hopes of a deal to “keep 1.5C alive”, from the Cop26 climate summit.
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#1316692021-11-15
Cop26: Pacific delegates condemn ‘monumental failure’ that leaves islands in peril
Pacific representatives and negotiators have condemned the outcome of the Cop26 meeting as “watered down” and a “monumental failure” that puts Pacific nations in severe existential danger, with one saying that Australia’s refusal to support funding for loss and damage suffered by Pacific countri ...
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#1315522021-11-09
Cop26: US must ‘deliver to get credit’ on climate crisis, says Ocasio-Cortez- day eight live
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, , has just been (you guessed it) speaking at an event attended by the press and US congresspeople.