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#1330722022-02-10
Italian Constitution Edited to Protect Environment From Ongoing Climate Crisis
It's a big day for Italian environmentalists — the country has updated its constitution to account for climate change, and to protect Italy from the effects of global warming.
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#1330642022-02-10
Protecting biodiversity: EU takes action to prevent introduction of invasive alien species that would damage European nature
The Commission is taking legal steps against 15 Member States in order to step up the prevention and management of invasive alien species. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia have failed to establ ...
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#1330742022-02-10
Climate change bills in Northern Ireland edge closer to completion
Northern Ireland’s first legally binding climate act faces a race against time to get passed before the devolved institutions at Stormont are dissolved in the coming weeks.
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#1330792022-02-10
Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court
Guatemala – An Indigenous community engaged in a decades-long struggle for land rights in Guatemala is bringing its battle to an international court this week in a case that could have far-reaching implications for Indigenous rights and mining activity.
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#1330812022-02-10
Amnesty granted to illegal Spanish strawberry farmers despite protests over damage to wetlands
Rightwing MPs in southern Spain have ignored protests from the central government, the EU, Unesco and several ecological groups by voting to grant an amnesty to illegal strawberry farmers who have been tapping water from the aquifer that feeds one of Europe’s largest protected wetlands.
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#1330832022-02-10
Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has ruled that an Indigenous community’s right to free, prior and informed consultation was violated by oil projects, and called for stronger protections to guarantee Indigenous communities’ rights to decide over extractive projects in their territories.
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#1331042022-02-10
World leaders at France summit mull ways to protect oceans
World leaders met on France's Atlantic coast Friday to discuss protecting the planet's oceans from threats such as overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas.
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#1330592022-02-09
Animal testing put to the test in Swiss vote
Switzerland goes to the polls Sunday to decide whether animal and human testing should be banned -- a proposal that has triggered an outcry in a country heavily reliant on big pharma.
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#1330312022-02-09
World leaders descend on France for ocean summit as Macron puts spotlight on seas
Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean.
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#1329822022-02-08
‘Blue diplomacy’: France summit puts world’s spotlight on oceans
Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean.
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#1329932022-02-08
No silver-bullet solutions for saving used planet
With much of the planet already "used-up", the world has hard choices to make over how to use land in the most sustainable and effective way.
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#1329982022-02-08
National biodiversity strategy to 2030 approved
Under the strategy, the Government targets increasing the area of protected ecosystems to 9 percent of the country's land area, and protected marine and coastal areas to 3-5 percent of the total sea area.
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#1330212022-02-08
Poll: Citizens globally blast politicians' lack of action to combat climate change
Adults across the United States and globally have damning opinions about the performance of their political leaders when it comes to climate change, and say they are noticing an escalation in extreme weather events and natural disasters.
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#1329522022-02-04
Loss of biodiversity demands urgent action, as all life forms are entangled
All life forms are entangled to a greater or lesser degree, Although not immediately obvious, a large share of world food supply is dependent on the interactions of a multitude of insects.
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#1329542022-02-04
2022 must see action on oceans, biodiversity, plastics: EU
The European Union's environment chief said Thursday that 2022 must be the year for an ambitious agreement on the oceans, for action that protects the world's biodiversity, and for starting negotiations to tackle the global crisis of plastic pollution especially at sea.
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#1329572022-02-04
Why Environmental Regulations Are Important to Fight Climate Change in Egypt
For centuries, in the lush green fields of Egypt’s fertile Delta Valley, Egyptian farmers have always carried a deep love for the land – growing popular crops such as wheat and cotton, and putting Egypt on the map of global agriculture.
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#1329682022-02-04
Court halts land clearance on edge of protected park in Zambia
Conservationists in Zambia have hailed a high court injunction preventing deforestation and commercial agriculture on the edge of Kasanka national park, which they say threatens the world’s biggest mammal migration.
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#1329132022-02-03
Race is on to save the Great Salt Lake: Will it be enough?
The largest natural lake west of the Mississippi is shrinking past its lowest levels in recorded history, raising fears about toxic dust, ecological collapse and economic consequences. But the Great Salt Lake may have some new allies: conservative Republican lawmakers.
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#1329172022-02-03
Rare flower to get protected zone near ioneer's Nevada lithium mine
he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will permanently zone off 910 acres (368 hectares) near ioneer Ltd's (INR.AX) proposed lithium mine in Nevada to preserve a rare flower, a major step forward in the project's bid to proceed.
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#1329182022-02-03
'Make sustainable farming, biodiversity election issue'
With climate, ecology and agricultural sustainability not being poll plank of any party till the 2022 election, NGO Kheti Virasat Mission has come up with its own people’s agenda and a 21-page green manifesto to pressurise political parties into acknowledging environment protection and sustainab ...
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#1328732022-02-02
Ofwat urged to do more to make water firms protect environment
Ofwat must do more to make the water industry in England and Wales protect the environment, the government has said. Setting out the priorities for the regulator for the next five years the environment minister Rebecca Pow said water companies should significantly reduce the frequency and volume ...
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#1328772022-02-02
How Brazil's government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also imagine that, working with federal politicians, they change the law to downsize the park by a million acres, which they sell in a private auction.
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#1328252022-02-01
Solving the Climate and Biodiversity Crises Needs as Much Science as Nature
Planting trees, greening cities, and restoring wetlands are some of the solutions to the global climate and biodiversity crises that have gained traction in the wake of the COP26 climate talks.
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#1328262022-02-01
What Has the Pandemic Done to Forest Policies? (Commentary)
I have not traveled anywhere these past 2 years. I couldn’t travel even if I wanted to since Australia, where I live, closed its borders in March 2020 in a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19. One of my cancelled trips this year was to attend the UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow.
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#1328272022-02-01
Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves
Indonesia has recorded mixed progress in its dual programs of restoring tropical peatlands and mangroves, acknowledging that achieving the latter goal will be far more challenging than for the higher-profile peatlands.
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#1328382022-02-01
Colourful Yunnan: An epitome of China’s efforts in advancing ecological progress
A good natural environment and natural endowment are the most unique advantage that Yunnan enjoys
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#1328472022-02-01
Science towards policy: New approaches towards improving forest resistance to invasive alien species
Invasive alien pests and pathogens are a challenge posed in front of forest managers in Europe and around the world. Invasions have a profound impact on forest ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people.
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#1328492022-02-01
New Approaches Towards Improving Forest Resistance To Invasive Alien Species
Invasive alien pests and pathogens are a challenge posed in front of forest managers in Europe and around the world. Invasions have a profound impact on forest ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people.
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#1328642022-02-01
The Place of Biodiversity in EU Policy
Biodiversity is an essential component of life on Earth and of human society, and is now a primary focus area of the European Union with the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 launched in 2020 as part of the European Green Deal.
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#1327942022-01-31
The conversion of forests to agricultural land is happening at a mind-boggling speed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year.
At the start of the Budget Session, President Ram Nath Kovind, in his address, on Monday said India has emerged as a responsible global voice on climate change, with the Union government having pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 1 billion tonnes by 2030.
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#1328132022-01-31
Norway’s wolves ‘saved for this year’ as animal rights groups fight cull
Norway has halted a major hunt of wolves after campaigners secured a court injunction. Twenty-five animals, within four packs, are in the “wolf zone”, an area of nature set aside to protect the predators, and these have been given a stay of execution by the courts after campaigners argued wolves ...
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#1327902022-01-28
Kampong Thom Governor pushes for protection of protected areas
The Governor Ngoun Ratanak urged all locals to help protect the flooded forests in the province. Governor Ratanak urged all people to help protect the flooded forests and join efforts to rehabilitate them. T
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#1327622022-01-27
Morrison promises extra $1 billion to save the Great Barrier Reef
An extra $1 billion will be poured into saving the Great Barrier Reef from climate change and growing environmental threats as the federal government moves to protect tens of thousands of tourism jobs and bolster its green credentials in an election year.
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#1327652022-01-27
Brest Wishes for the Ocean in 2022
President Emmanuel Macron of France is convening world leaders and ocean advocates for the One Ocean Summit in February 2022. This gathering will take place on board a large vessel moored in the harbour of Brest on France’s Finisterre peninsula. Will the Summit serve as a launch pad for high-lev ...
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#1327712022-01-27
Richest 20 nations urged to lead on nature protection with more finance
The world's 20 richest nations should more than double their annual spending to protect and restore nature to $285 billion by 2050, the United Nations and donors said on Thursday, calling for private and overseas investments to be ramped up too.
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#1327102022-01-25
McKinsey: fundamental transformation of global economy needed for net zero
Reaching net zero climate emissions by 2050 will require a “fundamental transformation of the global economy”, according to a report by McKinsey, one of the world’s most influential consulting firms.
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#1327142022-01-25
Covid-19 will dominate, but NZ must also face 'triple planetary crisis'
2022 will be important for environmental and climate action. Several key developments are expected throughout the year, both in New Zealand and internationally, focusing on climate change and biodiversity - and how these crises overlap with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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#1327152022-01-25
Climate change: Biden's next big political gamble?
After a string of setbacks on getting his priorities through the deeply divided US Congress, President Joe Biden may set his sights on climate change in a bid to save the planet -- and his imperiled legacy.
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#1327162022-01-25
In a battle between this endangered flower and a lithium mine, who should win?
In a remote corner of Nevada a four hour drive north of Las Vegas, there’s a small yellow flower that exists nowhere else in the world: Its entire global habitat takes up a chunk of federally-owned land a little smaller than two football fields.
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#1327362022-01-25
How Leaders Can Move Beyond Greenwashing Toward Real Change
At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), former President Barack Obama asked those gathered and tuning in to consider the question: “How do we close the gap between what’s necessary for our survival and what seems politically possible right now?”
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#1327382022-01-25
Deloitte Report: Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost the US Economy $14.5 Trillion by 2070
A new report released today from the Deloitte Economics Institute shows that the United States economy could gain $3 trillion if it rapidly decarbonizes over the next 50 years. This once-in-a-generation transformation could add nearly 1 million more jobs to the US economy by 2070, according to t ...
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#1327462022-01-25
A human right to nature: The people suing governments for environmental damage
An Asian megacity partially locked down because of pollution. Acres of farms in Africa destroyed by extreme weather. Ancient Arctic cultures disappearing with melting ice. This isn’t the future. It’s happening now.
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#1326972022-01-21
Zero pollution in drinking water: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals on new watch list of pollutants
Following a decision by the Commission, drinking water across the EU will have to be monitored more closely for the potential presence of two endocrine-disrupting compounds (beta-estradiol and nonylphenol) throughout the whole water supply chain. As required by EU rules on drinking water in forc ...
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#1326682022-01-20
Looking back on WOS 2021: How ocean governance enables sustainability
Effective management of the ocean can simultaneously aid efforts to tackle climate change, the biodiversity crisis and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But achieving this will require changes in how the ocean is governed at all levels.
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#1326702022-01-20
Forest industries welcome new opportunities to help Australia meet its climate goals
The peak body representing the major plantation companies of Australia, the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), has welcomed just announced changes to the new plantation forestry method which will streamline opportunities for planting trees and retain current forest lands to help comb ...
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#1326732022-01-20
Why the Environment Ministry’s Proposed Changes to Wildlife Act Will Weaken it
Kochi: India enacted its Wild Life (Protection) Act, or WLPA, 50 years ago as its principal law to protect and conserve its wildlife. In December 2021, the Union environment ministry announced a plan to amend this Act in ways “welcome” and “positive” as well as in others that experts say could r ...
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#1326042022-01-19
It’s time for business and government to get together on climate change
What do you get when a banker, an oil executive, a miner and a big-agriculture player walk into a virtual conference together? A big ask for federal government activism — and that’s no joke.
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#1326052022-01-19
Business leaders must rethink their goals to tackle climate change. Here’s why
Most nations today recognize both the importance and the urgency of the battle against global warming; but there are still significant differences on how best to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and how to share the cost of doing so. In the polarized world we unfortunately live in, this ...
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#1326152022-01-19
First NI environment strategy 'should be more ambitious
More than 30 organisations and individuals have called for greater ambition in Northern Ireland's first-ever environment strategy. It comes after a Stormont committee was told the target for increasing woodland cover was outdated.
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#1326252022-01-19
As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout
Activists in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, say they fear logging will ramp up following the state government’s decision to overturn a ban on exporting unprocessed timber.