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#1292732021-06-14
G7 to agree tough measures on burning coal to tackle climate change
World leaders meeting in Cornwall are to adopt strict measures on coal-fired power stations as part of the battle against climate change. The G7 group will promise to move away from coal plants, unless they have technology to capture carbon emissions.
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#1292742021-06-14
All hot air: UK commits to climate action but not to new funding
Boris Johnson has set out his intention to “build back better for the world”, to protect the natural environment and wildlife, and tackle the climate crisis, at the G7 summit in Cornwall. But he committed no new funds to the initiative, and other G7 leaders showed little sign of coming forward w ...
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#1292752021-06-14
The challenge for G7 leaders: vaccinate the world and be bolder on climate
As G7 leaders meet, the costs of not acting on public health, climate and biodiversity loss are now becoming far higher than the costs of acting.
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#1292762021-06-14
Boris Johnson confirms G7 to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by end of 2022
The G7 nations have agreed to distribute globally more than a billion vaccines against the coronavirus between now and the end of 2022 in the hope of eradicating the pandemic, Boris Johnson announced on Sunday.
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#1292772021-06-14
What Will Bridge The Gap Between G7 Climate Ambitions And Action?
At the G7 summit the White House announced the Build Back Better World (B3W) Partnership, a ‘climate-friendly’ initiative intended to fund the $40 trillion infrastructure gap in low- and middle-income countries.
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#1292782021-06-14
David Attenborough warns G7 leaders face biggest climate change decisions in history
G7 leaders face some of the most important decisions in human history as they tackle the climate change crisis, Sir David Attenborough said as the summit in Cornwall draws to a close.
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#1292822021-06-14
South Africa commits to helping fight climate change
South Africa’s president has told the G7 summit that his country is determined to contribute its fair share towards the global effort to address climate change challenges.
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#1292872021-06-14
CITES Parties gather online to review new tool to boost government-led efforts to reduce demand for illegally sourced wildlife
The demand for illegal wildlife products is one of the leading causes for the decline of many species, including elephants, rhinoceroses, great apes, marine turtles, pangolins, and tigers, but also less known species of flora and fauna such as cycads, rosewoods, seahorses, tortoises, parrots, un ...
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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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#1293212021-06-15
Biodiversity, ecosystems and climate change
Climate protection, preservation of biodiversity and social justice are inextricably linked.If we are to tackle global warming and promote sustainable development, the entire human race must work together to combat climate change and biodiversity loss whilst encouraging social justice, and must ...
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#1293442021-06-15
ANALYSIS-G7 brightens outlook for new nature pact but pandemic threatens deadline
New pledges by G7 leaders on climate change and biodiversity loss will boost efforts to strike a global pact to protect nature but an October deadline is likely to be missed without in-person talks, officials and observers said on Tuesday.
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#1293542021-06-16
‘Dead in the water’: key crossbenchers reject Coalition demand to back new environment standards
The Morrison government is attempting to stare down the Senate over changes to conservation laws, warning the wording of controversial new environment standards before parliament is “not negotiable” and will not be strengthened.
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#1294222021-06-21
California’s Opportunity to Shape Worldwide Biodiversity Policy
California, like the rest of the world, must wrestle with a hard truth: Our climate has changed. As we face another water-shortage crisis, we must acknowledge a sobering reality: We’re not in a drought. This is our new normal. And we need to adapt.
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#1294232021-06-21
Canada’s next climate plan must finally address its blind spot: oil and gas emissions
Canadian politicians, including prime minister Justin Trudeau, often imply that Canada’s environmental policies give our country social license to extract fossil fuels. But you can’t be a climate leader while championing a high-carbon industry.
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#1294392021-07-07
Tanzania: Govt Prepares National Climate Change Strategy Draft
IN efforts to tackle impacts of climate change in the country, the government is preparing the National Climate Change Strategy 2021-2016 draft, researchers have been informed.
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#1294592021-07-07
Biodiversity 3.0: Natural England unveils new metric to help deliver biodiversity net gain
The government's controversial planning reforms may be under fire from both environmental campaigners and Conservative backbenchers alike, but that has not stopped it today moving to bolster plans to ensure new developments deliver net benefits to the UK's biodiversity.
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#1294942021-07-09
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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#1294952021-07-09
Australian government to appeal ruling that it must protect children from climate harm
The environment minister, Sussan Ley, will appeal yesterday’s federal court declaration she has a duty of care to protect Australian children from climate harm that would be caused by the expansion of a coalmining project.
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#1294972021-07-09
Deforestation in Brazil will be hard to stop, no matter who's in charge
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets against it, and retailers and consumers threatened to boycott Brazilian products. But while the pand ...
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#1295652021-07-13
Egypt’s Environment Minister highlights preserving marine life, coral reefs in Red Sea
Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has highlighted the need to preserve marine life and coral reefs in the country’s Red Sea region.
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#1296002021-07-21
New biodiversity algorithm ‘will blight range of natural habitats in England’
The government’s new metric for biodiversity will have to be urgently improved if it is going to be fit for purpose, academics and conservationists have warned.
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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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#1296252021-07-22
Water policy reforms to deliver ambitious environmental agenda
The Government and water regulators (Environment Agency and Ofwat) have today (22 July) set out an ambitious programme of reform to build back greener from the pandemic through the review of the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP).
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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 ...
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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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#1296422021-07-23
Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says
Kolombangara Island forms a 30-kilometer (19-mile) circle of green in the Solomon Sea. One of more than 900 islands that make up the Solomon Islands, it is fringed by coral reefs and dominated by a volcanic peak, which rises to 1,770 meters (5,800 feet). Ravines of more than 75 river catchments ...
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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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#1296482021-07-23
Conservationists urge Congo to reverse pay-to-poach decision
Environmentalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday urged the government to reverse a move to tax rather than forbid poaching, saying the move endangered millions in conservation funds.
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#1296612021-07-23
World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list
The Great Barrier Reef will not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” after a global lobbying effort from Australia against the proposed listing.
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#1296672021-07-26
Should rivers have the same rights as people?
The Magpie River winds majestically through the forests of Quebec for nearly 200 miles. Its thundering ribbon of blue is cherished by kayakers, white-water rafters and the indigenous Innu people of Ekuanitshit. Earlier this year, in a first for Canada, the river was granted legal personhood by l ...
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#1296752021-07-26
Kenya: Government in Sh6.2 Trillion Plan to Combat Climate Change
Kenya requires Sh6.2 trillion over the next 10 years to fund its war on climate change. The country requires Sh620 billion annually -- Sh180 billion to reduce the severity of the climate change fall out and Sh440 billion to build resilience. Part of the strategies includes cutting greenhouse gas ...
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#1296842021-07-26
Hoghilag tuberose could be the first flower in Romania to get European protection
The tuberose growing in Hoghilag, in Romania's Sibiu county, could be the first flower in Romania and the third in Europe to get European protection. According to local Agerpres, the producers in this area will submit to the Ministry of Agriculture the evaluation documentation needed to obtain, ...
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#1296902021-07-27
Isle of Man government outlines five-year climate change plan Published1 hour ago
Phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicles and harnessing the resources of the ocean are among the Isle of Man government's new plans to tackle climate change. A five-year action plan has been shared in July's sitting of Tynwald.
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#1296962021-07-27
California’s Opportunity To Shape Worldwide Biodiversity Policy
California, like the rest of the world, must wrestle with a hard truth: Our climate has changed. As we face another water-shortage crisis, we must acknowledge a sobering reality: We’re not in a drought. This is our new normal. And we need to adapt.
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#1297122021-07-27
UNESCO Says Australia's Great Barrier Reef Isn't In Danger Yet. Many Environmentalists and Divers Disagree
Tony Fontes first went scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef in 1979 on a trip to Australia. Fontes, a native Californian, was so entranced that he decided to stay and work as a dive instructor at Airlie Beach, a coastal resort town in Queensland that serves as a gateway to the reef.
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#1297262021-07-27
South Africa: Minister Barbara Creecy Participates in July Ministerial Climate Change Meeting in London, UK
Minister Barbara Creecy, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment participated in a July Ministerial Climate Change meeting hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 26 President-Designate, Mr. Alok Sharma, on 25 and 26 July 2021 in London, UK.
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#1297422021-07-28
Biden mileage rule to exceed Obama climate goal
In a major step against climate change, President Joe Biden is proposing a return to aggressive Obama-era vehicle mileage standards over five years, according to industry and government officials briefed on the plan. He’s then aiming for even tougher anti-pollution rules after that to forcefully ...
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#1297472021-07-28
New plan launched to safeguard wildlife in Leicester
The new Leicester Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-31 sets out how the Council will focus conservation work on wildlife habitats and species that are most in need to help protect local biodiversity.
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#1297832021-07-29
Marine and coastal leaders call for national strategy to protect oceans
The 15th National Coast to Coast Conference delegates have called for the Australian Government to adopt a National Sustainable Oceans and Coasts Strategy.
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#1298332021-08-09
Analysis of DRR inclusion in national climate change commitments
The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)/Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and contributing documents to better understand how disaster risk management is approached in climate change documents, and if systemic risk issues where impacts cascade a ...
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#1298612021-08-10
Scotland's beaver population doubles to 1000 in three years
The number of beavers in Scotland have more than doubled in the last three years, new figures reveal. Natural environment agency NatureScot says there are now about 1,000 of the animals. Legislation was introduced in 2019 to make beavers a protected species, meaning it's illegal to kill or distu ...
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#1299242021-08-13
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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#1299942021-08-18
The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s strongest-ever climate bill
The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is clear and foreboding. If the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions, the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage. The world that we will be leaving our ch ...
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#1300402021-08-19
Why is life on Earth still taking second place to fossil fuel companies?
The human tragedy is that there is no connection between what we know and what we do. Almost everyone is now at least vaguely aware that we face the greatest catastrophe our species has ever confronted. Yet scarcely anyone alters their behaviour in response: above all, their driving, flying and ...
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#1300482021-08-19
Opinion | Can Climate Change Teach Middle East Leaders How to Be Friends?
As the latest wildfires amply demonstrate, the effects of climate change are now upon us. But the region is wholly unprepared to deal with them.
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#1300722021-08-19
Ghana developing first Biodiversity Policy to protect nature
Ghana is developing its first Biodiversity Policy aimed at reducing threats to its over 6,000 flora and fauna to promote the sustainable utilization of biodiversity and benefits sharing to meet the people’s needs.
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#1300762021-08-19
What China’s new guidelines on ‘green development’ mean for the Belt and Road
The “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, issued jointly by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), encourages Chinese businesses to integrate green development throughout the overseas investment process.
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#1300932021-08-20
Census could be blessing or bane for Romania's bears
Romania will soon conduct a census of its protected brown bears using DNA for the first time, with tensions raised between villagers fearing further attacks and conservationists warning against looser hunting laws.
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#1300972021-08-20
Climate Crisis – A Solution in the Hands of Global Leaders and Politicians
There is an urgent need for the heads of global and regional groupings, states and governments to formulate, implement and adequately resource pro-poor climate change policies and actions to protect the communities worst-affected by climate change in the world.