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#1236632020-01-13
UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction
Almost a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by the end of the decade to stop and reverse biodiversity decline that risks the survival of humanity, according to a draft Paris-style UN agreement on nature.
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#1236932020-01-13
UN Convention on Biodiversity Proposes Protection of at Least 30 Percent of the Planet by 2030
Today, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity released its ‘zero draft’ text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Featured in the text is a target to protect at least 30% of the planet — land and sea — by 2030.
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#29452019-12-19
Action by
2019-02-03
Submission of views on possible targets and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework related to the interlinkages and interdependencies between biodiversity and climate change
Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/AC/88568 (2019-115)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
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#29442019-12-12
Tracking Economic Instruments and Finance for Biodiversity: Invitation to contribute data on positive incentives relevant to Aichi Biodiversity Target 3 to the OECD PINE database
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/GD/88414 (2019-114)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Resource Mobilization Focal Points
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#1233362019-12-09
European shipping emissions undermining international climate targets
Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping equal the carbon footprint of a quarter of passenger cars in Europe and stand in the way of countries reducing emissions and limiting runaway global heating, analysis reveals.
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#1232522019-12-04
'The message of urgency cannot be overstated,' EU environment body warns
The EU is not on track to meeting the vast majority of environmental targets for 2020—and the outlook for 2030 and 2040 is even bleaker. This is the devastating verdict of the groundbreaking State of the Environment Report 2020 published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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#1232392019-12-03
World Remains Sharply Divided on Climate Change Targets Ahead of 'Crucial 12 Months'
When it comes to preventing the worst of climate change, “the point of no return is no longer over the horizon,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Sunday on the eve of a crucial round of intergovernmental talks at the UN’s annual climate summit.
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#1232432019-12-03
Menace & the Myths~I
The use of pesticides in agriculture has been increasing with time as the demand for food production increases with the increase in population. Historically, pesticides have been known as economic poison and can be categorized into insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and plant-growth-regulators ...
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#1231892019-12-02
Natural-Born Climate Commitments
Although most countries have acknowledged the threat posed by climate change and established targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the international community still has not made the same level of commitment to environmental conservation. Yet it is our natural ecosystems that will save u ...
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#1231432019-11-27
Knowledge gaps must be filled to meet global biodiversity targets
New study emphasizes need to balance human well-being and environmental protection
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#1231172019-11-26
UN report reveals how hard it will be to meet climate change targets
The United Nations has warned world leaders must cut greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 7.6 per cent every year for the next decade to meet the most ambitious goal of the Paris climate deal, or suffer the impacts of greater global warming.
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#1231292019-11-26
Cut global emissions by 7.6 percent every year for next decade to meet 1.5°C Paris target - UN report
Geneva, 26 November 2019 – On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportu ...
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#1230342019-11-18
CDP: Consumer goods giants won't meet 2020 'net-zero' deforestation targets
Despite work by some leading consumer goods companies to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, broad failures to deploy ambitious forest and land-use practices mean the sector will not meet its 2020 commitment to 'net-zero' deforestation.
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#1230212019-11-15
The first day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration of the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration for the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has begun today, a meeting that promotes dialogue based on scientific input and the experience of representatives from over 60 countries to develop suggestions on potential objectives, targets and ...
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#1228672019-11-06
Commercial fungi pickers threaten Epping Forest biodiversity
A woodland is being stripped of wild mushrooms by pickers selling them off to restaurants and markets, it is claimed. The City of London Corporation (CLC) said commercial foragers had been targeting London's Epping Forest.
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#1228922019-11-06
Helping countries with biodiversity conservation targets
Much of the work of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is not headline-grabbing and involves things like gap analysis, assessments, strategic action plans and capacity-building—training governments in the use of certain databases, for instance.
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#1227542019-10-25
Scientists call for improved approach to biodiversity targets on invasive species
A Monash-led international commentary on the harm caused by biological invasions has urged policy makers to develop conversation targets in a unified framework informed by new data integration methods developed in the last decade.
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#1226442019-10-15
My beef with scapegoating meat in climate change conversation
The meat industry is a popular target to blame when we analyze the biggest contributors to global warming, but the belief that adopting a purely meatless diet to combat climate change may not be enough.
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#1226662019-10-15
Government tables 'groundbreaking' Environment Bill
Long-awaited legislation to deliver new environmental regulator and legally binding green targets
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#1226172019-10-10
Global network of financial centres plan huge growth in sustainable finance and launches regional programme for Africa
Geneva, 10 October 2019 – Maintaining the momentum of the Secretary-General’s Climate Summit last month, a global network of 30 financial centres – accounting for $61.3 trillion in equity market capitalization and representing 80 percent of global equity markets – today agreed to mainstream gree ...
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#1225822019-10-09
Expert outlines pathway to net zero emissions by 2050
A key figure in the United Kingdom's decision to legislate a climate change target of net zero emissions by 2050 is in Australia.Professor Julia King (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) will give a lecture on the approach the UK is taking with hydrogen, and the policy requirements in developing such a ...
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#1225582019-10-07
Five unconventional issues to be addressed while developing the new CBD strategic plan
The rush to develop elements for the new Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and related global biodiversity targets have already started. A large number of stakeholders are currently working on making the plan robust, responsive and implementable with more chances fo ...
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#1224062019-09-27
Trudeau promises 25 per cent protection of land, oceans by 2025
The Liberals’ week of climate announcements continued on Thursday, as leader Justin Trudeau committed to a new environmental target — protecting 25 per cent of Canada’s land and oceans by 2025.
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#1223292019-09-24
UN Climate Summit: Seychelles joins country coalition aiming to protect 30 percent of Earth
Seychelles is honoured to join a newly launched coalition pushing for the ambitious target for the protection of 30 percent of the planet Earth by the end of the next decade, President Danny Faure said in New York on Monday.
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#1223452019-09-24
Most of world's biggest firms 'unlikely' to meet Paris climate targets
More than four fifths of the world’s largest companies are unlikely to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement by 2050, according to fresh analysis of their climate disclosures.
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#1223532019-09-24
Operationalizing targets for biodiversity conservation and restoration
The Nature Map Consortium has introduced new global maps that integrate available data on biodiversity and carbon to assist country policies for biodiversity and land-based greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1220292019-08-28
Satellite-based estimates of reduced deforestation in protected areas needed
In the context of progressing towards new targets for a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the debate remains on whether the emphasis should be on protected area coverage or protected area effectiveness.
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#1218062019-08-06
India to set voluntary target to combat land degradation
"Nearly 30% of land is degraded and we are committed to address this challenge"
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#1217362019-07-30
Climate change: Tree planting rise 'needs to happen quickly'
Significant rises in tree planting in the UK "need to happen quickly" if other targets to cut carbon are not met, government advisers have warned.
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#1216282019-07-18
Gove targets 2020 for UK environmental leadership
Next year could be a very big year for environmental leadership, says Defra secretary, and UK should be at the centre.
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#28872019-07-12
Safeguarding Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites: an urgent action to implement Decision XIV/1 on the assessment of progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Targets and options to accelerate progress
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/SBG/PG/88220 (2019-058)
To: CBD National Focal Points
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#1215302019-07-10
Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’
In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a “wealth of action” had been taken by governments across the world “the most vulnerable people and countries continue to suffer the most.”
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#1212872019-06-12
Climate change: UK government to commit to 2050 target
Greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will be cut to almost zero by 2050, under the terms of a new government plan to tackle climate change.
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#1211972019-05-24
Why aren’t countries meeting their targets to tackle the loss of nature?
You may have seen the recent news that one million species are at risk of extinction.
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#1211562019-05-22
Tiger sharks feast on migratory birds that fall out of the sky
Other marine animals don’t appear to target land birds that end up in the Gulf of Mexico
Notification
#28762019-05-17
Action by
2019-06-14
Peer review of CBD Technical Series No. 87: Assessing Progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 6 on Sustainable Fisheries
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/JA/JG/88129 (2019-047)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, IPLCs and other relevant organizations
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#1210202019-05-10
Stocktaking of Sendai Framework targets: Making Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Inclusive and Accessible for All
New York — Government representatives, development practitioners and humanitarian actors from around the world will meet in Geneva next week at the Sixth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (May 13-17) to take stock of the progress towards achieving the targets outlined by ...
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#1208692019-04-29
An epic Pacific survey reveals mixed fortunes for green and hawksbill turtles
First the good news: A sweeping survey of the Pacific Basin has found the population of endangered green turtles (Chelonia mydas) there is increasing. However, the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), the other target species of the survey, is still very much critically endangered.
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#1208422019-04-24
Leave No Ambition Behind: Why These 21 Targets Could Save the SDGs
2019 is a milestone year for the SDGs. It includes the first comprehensive review of progress on the entire 2030 Agenda since implementation began in 2016.
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#1208072019-04-17
Climate change targets are slipping out of reach
For all the commentary around a transition to a clean energy system, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is still continuing to rise rapidly and shows no sign of slowing down.
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#1206182019-04-02
Marine protected reserves do more than restore fish
In a new analysis of the effectiveness of marine protected areas worldwide, University of Massachusetts Amherst marine ecologist Brian Cheng and colleagues report that reserves not only replenish target fish populations, they also restore ecological functioning. However, not all reserves perform ...
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#1205402019-03-27
Ministers Urged To Declare National Climate Emergency In UK
Campaigners say UK will miss almost all of its 2020 nature targets and young people want changeA national climate and environment emergency should be declared immediately, the government has been told.
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#1204492019-03-21
UK will miss almost all its 2020 nature targets, says official report
The UK will miss almost all the 2020 nature targets it signed up to a decade ago, according to a report by the government’s official advisers.
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#1204202019-03-19
Biodiversity Conservation is the Way for Zero Hunger in Ghana
According to the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), by the year 2030, Ghana should have: 1) ended hunger and ensured access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round, 2) ended all forms of malnutrition, 3) doubled agricultural product ...
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#1203932019-03-15
UN calls for bold actions to meet biodiversity targets
The United Nations on Thursday called on its member countries to make bold actions to meet the targets of a globally-agreed strategic plan for biodiversity by 2020.
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#1203362019-03-13
Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts
Over the past 30 years I have reported so many broken climate policy promises and quoted so much rhetoric that proved to be hollow, it is difficult to trace it back to the start. I think it’s a faded press release from 11 October, 1990 headed “government sets targets for reductions in greenhouse ...
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#1201312019-02-27
Qatar Airways launches staff training programme to tackle global wildlife crime
Qatar Airways has launched an industry-leading training programme focused on preventing illegal wildlife trafficking.The bespoke e-learning package, developed by Qatar Airways to enhance employee awareness regarding the illegal trafficking of wildlife, is targeted at those roles within the airli ...
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#1200452019-02-21
Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
Swede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
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#1200172019-02-19
Land use delays could hamper climate efforts
Global climate change targets are unlikely to be met because of delays in changes to land use, Edinburgh researchers say.Efforts to make land management less damaging to the climate need to be stepped up if high levels of climate change are to be avoided, scientists say.
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#1199912019-02-18
Even without GMOs, Uganda can beat food insecurity, New FAO boss
Uganda is a country with a huge potential when it comes to agriculture. It’s blessed with a lot of water and fertile soils which can guarantee sustained production and food security. But when we look at the statistics in terms of food and nutrition, we realise that there is still a lot of work t ...