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#1351942022-07-05
Ensuring Positive Impacts On Biodiversity Under The Future CAP
Based on an analysis of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that will apply over the period 2023-2027, more than 300 experts from 23 European Union Member States have analysed its impacts on the protection and restoration of biodiversity.
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#1241452020-02-13
Environment Bill 2020: analysis of the first reading
The Environment Bill has been enhanced and reintroduced to Parliament, following the government's promise to tackle climate change and restore the natural environment. The enhanced Bill will stop the exportation of plastic waste to developing countries, boost the recycling system, restore natura ...
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#1286232021-05-14
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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#1229892019-11-14
Environment and the law
“The environment is not an abstraction but represents the living space, the quality of life and the very health of human beings, including generations unborn. The existence of the general obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction and control respect the environment ...
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#1343902022-05-12
Environment tipping points fast approaching in UK, says watchdog
Environmental tipping points are fast approaching in the UK, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has said.
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#1324942022-01-14
Environmental disasters are fuelling migration — here’s why international law must recognize climate refugees
When hurricanes Eta and Iota barrelled into Central America in November 2020, they flooded towns and cities, caused catastrophic losses in the agricultural sector and contributed to food insecurity. In all, 4.7 million Hondurans were affected, and tens of thousands decided to leave, forming migr ...
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#1304652021-09-15
Environmental justice: Why civil rights and protecting the planet go hand-in-hand
As the global ecological crisis impacts ever-more lives, it is becoming clearer that we cannot talk about cimate change, pollution or biodiversity loss without talking about inequality — whether that's determined by gender, race, class, sexual orientation or disability.
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#1266852021-01-26
Environmental legislation delay ‘deeply troubling’
Campaigners have criticised new delays to flagship environmental legislation on pollution, wildlife protection and cutting waste. The Environment Bill seeks to write environmental principles in UK law for the first time, following Brexit, but the UK Government has delayed the passage of the Bill ...
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#1296432021-07-23
Environmental rights must be preserved in the Constitution
The Government should deliver on its promise to convene a Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity loss – this would provide an opportune forum to discuss the insertion of environmental rights into the Constitution.
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#1330632022-02-10
Equitable solutions must be at the core of climate action policies
Over the centuries, there are moments when a generation has to be resolute on certain course-changing decisions that would shape how the future would be for humanity.
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#1233032019-12-06
Europe must uphold key EU law protecting freshwater fishes
Europe is no exception to the decline in freshwater biodiversity, due to many threats such as agricultural pollution, or the overwhelming development of hydropower, writes Dr Steven Weiss.
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#1224972019-10-03
Europe wants the causes of biodiversity decline translated into politics
Butterflies, bees, flies – some of whose species we no longer see around anymore because they have become extinct as a result of extensive, densely asphalted areas in between green areas. Plant species that are disappearing, an ocean full of plastic which causes fish to die because they eat it a ...
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#1320382021-12-03
European Green Deal: Commission welcomes political agreement on the 8th Environment Action Programme
The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on the 8th Environment Action Programme (EAP). The 8th EAP anchors the member states' and Parliament's commitment to environmental and climate action until 2030, guided by a long-t ...
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#2159COP 10
2010-10-20
European research supports international biodiversity governance
Research funded by the European Union contributes to international biodiversity governance in many ways. In this side event we present three such projects. The first shows how biodiversity conservation alleviates poverty in the highland regions of Asia. The second examines issues of scale in bio ...
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#1333162022-02-17
Europe’s fishing industry to battle with conservationists over bottom trawling
An EU action plan to deal with fishing practices that trawl the ocean floor is set to trigger a row between conservationists and a new industry alliance that says it is fighting for Europe’s culture and identity.
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#1292982021-06-14
Expert: Climate protection policy does not have a negative economic impact
The benefits of strict climate policies are often underestimated in public debate, while the costs are generally overestimated, says Lucas Bretschger. Climate protection does not have a negative impact on economic development.
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#1321292021-12-10
Explained: How Clean Ocean Linked To Human Rights
As the world is observing the Human Rights Day on December 10, there is a need for everyone to know how the importance of clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In October this year, the UN Human Rights Council recognized that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.
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#1291842021-06-10
Explanatory Presidency Document: guest countries at the 2021 G7 climate and environment ministerial track
The G7 Climate and Environment Ministers met on 20 to 21 May 2021 to show leadership on net zero by 2050 at the latest and protecting our planet's biodiversity.
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#1325802022-01-18
Extra funding for biodiversity loss and climate crisis - Lorna Slater
Scotland has some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the world and we are putting it at the heart of our recovery. There may be chaos in Downing Street, but, here in Scotland, we are focused on a recovery for people and planet. We are getting on with the job of government, and doing everyt ...
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#1296182021-07-22
FAO Director-General tells G20: to have healthy food, we need a healthy environment
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today called on G20 Environment Ministersto step up joint efforts, increase investment and work more closely with FAO for game-changing impacts on the planet.
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#1318122021-11-18
Farmers: we’re a step ahead on climate change policy
Farmers are taking significant measures to control the outcome of climate change legislation. For one, they’ve given the job to professionals. Farmers decide on their priorities, set their lobbyists in motion, then go back to farming and see what happens.
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#1338702022-03-31
Fast fashion: European Union reveals fast fashion crackdown
Clothes, furniture and smartphones sold in Europe must be longer-lasting and easier to repair under new rules proposed by the European Union.
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#1337822022-03-08
Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects
The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, despite moves by the European Union to ban the use of toxins that have been blamed for widespread insec ...
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#1336182022-03-01
Feature: Nature-based solutions to improve climate change and air quality
Stephen Cirell, an independent consultant on climate change, low carbon and renewable energy, advises how local authorities and policy makers can incorporate nature-based solutions into their climate, biodiversity and air quality plans.
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#1336712022-03-03
Feature: Nature-based solutions to improve climate change and air quality
Stephen Cirell, an independent consultant on climate change, low carbon and renewable energy, advises how local authorities and policy makers can incorporate nature-based solutions into their climate, biodiversity and air quality plans.
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#1310382021-10-21
Fifth of Indonesia’s palm oil sites lie in protected forests, says Greenpeace
Almost one-fifth of the land used for Indonesian oil palm plantations is located in the country’s forest estate, despite a law banning such activity, according to a study by Greenpeace.
Meeting
#5705Fifty-Seventh Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property (WIPO)
2 - 11 October 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
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#1260582020-12-08
Finance’s gain must not be biodiversity’s loss
You would expect financial institutions to understand investing in assets that deliver outsize returns. But when it comes to biodiversity and the broader category of natural capital, most investors still behave as if these assets were unlimited, even as they are being depleted or destroyed.
Meeting
#5712First Meeting of the Parties to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures
29 - 31 May 2017, Oslo, Norway
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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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#1323242022-01-05
Five big questions for 2022
We live in such a volatile, unpredictable world, that trying to make predictions seems slightly ludicrous. Yet, in this UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, we need to be pleasantly surprised. So, instead of predictions, I think it is worth posing some big environmental questions which we need ...
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#1333272022-02-18
Focus on ridding forests off invasive alien species
The Forest department has planned a special project to eradicate prioritised invasive alien species from the forests of the State during the 2022-23 fiscal.
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#1237472020-01-16
Food security plan after Brexit: biggest shake-up to farming in 40 years
The UK’s food security is to be regularly assessed by parliament to ensure minimal disruption to supplies after the country leaves the EU and while new trade deals are sought.
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#1312222021-10-27
For Canada, meeting its current climate targets will be complicated and expensive
The historical pattern holds true with past agreements struck in Rio, Kyoto and Copenhagen. To meet the Paris target and the federal government's revised target unveiled this summer, considerable change is necessary.
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#1319122021-11-24
For peace, security, prosperity and development
The parties agreed to continue to support the implementation of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan IV (2021–2025), and welcome the strengthening of cooperation within the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC), the BIMP-EAGA-China Cooperation (BECC) and other relevant sub-regional fr ...
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#1284692021-05-06
For the EU's 'Green Deal' to succeed, economic theory must take into account qualitative growth
The goal of the EU's ambitious new "Green Deal" is to put Europe on a path toward zero emissions and sustainable growth decoupled from resource use.
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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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#1313022021-10-29
Forget fine art: investors urged to put their money into rewilding
Forget gold, vintage wines and fine art: investors and landowners are being urged to put their money into Tamworth pigs, Dalmatian pelicans and ponds dug by beavers.
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#2372Forty-fifth Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization
3 - 8 April 2006, New Delhi, India
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#1281862021-04-22
Four steps this Earth Day to avert environmental catastrophe
Today is Earth Day, which should provide us with an opportunity to pause and confront the awful predicament humanity faces. We eat microplastics, breathe pollution and watch other life-forms decline to extinction.
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#1285652021-05-12
France Senate amends constitutional bill on climate change and biodiversity
The French Senate on Monday voted to amend a government-sponsored bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron to fight climate change and preserve biodiversity.
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#1303472021-09-09
France threatened with legal action over use of pesticides
The French government is being threatened with court action by two NGOs who accuse it of failing to meet its obligations to protect nature.
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#1280062021-04-12
France to ban some domestic flights where train available
French MPs have voted to suspend domestic airline flights that can be made by direct train in less than two and a half hours, as part of a series of climate and environmental measures.
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#1349832022-06-14
France vows cash for urban vegetation as heatwave hits
The French government announced 500 million euros on Tuesday to encourage urban vegetation projects to tackle high temperatures in towns and cities as a heatwave began to strike in the south and southwest.
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#1289972021-06-02
Freshwater: Securing our future
Water, soil, air and species biodiversity are what create ecosystems. The earth’s ecosystems sustain all human activity, including economic activity.
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#1251022020-04-16
Future Farming Must Protect Human Health
Agricultural leaders calling for environmental rules to be ditched in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic are not only putting environmental health at risk, but public health too, says Forest & Bird.
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#1296402021-07-23
G20 environment meeting opens with ambitious joint document
G20 environment and energy ministers Thursday held their first day of meetings in the Italian city of Naples, after which they issued a joint document on the protection of nature, especially ecosystems. This document implies the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as circular econ ...
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#1296272021-07-22
G20 environment ministers meet in Italy amid floods, fires
With forest fires raging in the U.S. and Russia and floods devastating parts of Western Europe, environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 industrialized countries gathered Thursday for two days of talks ahead of November’s crucial climate change conference.
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#1296392021-07-23
G20 on Environment supports creation of an International network of environmental experts in UNESCO sites
The Environment Ministers of G20 member states, meeting in Naples, supported the Italian initiative establishing a UNESCO Network of international environmental experts across all UNESCO designated sites around the world – biosphere reserves, Global Geoparks and natural heritage sites. This netw ...