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#1316102021-11-10
Gender equality and Indigenous people: day nine at Cop26 – in pictures
Some of the best images from the global climate summit in Scotland on Tuesday 9 November
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#1189192018-12-06
Gene Editing Divides UN Biodiversity Convention Members On Synthetic Biology Evaluation
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — After informal closed consultations, a draft decision was issued yesterday on how the UN Convention on Biological Diversity should address potential impacts of synthetic biology, during the biennial conference of the parties taking place this week.
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#1188532018-11-08
Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — As policymakers, conservation scientists and the global media geared up to attend U.N. climate talks in Poland, discussions on another environment-related global treaty were quietly drawing to a close in Egypt.
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#1189172018-12-06
Global biodiversity – when it comes to the natural world, more is more
Amid last week’s furore over the Trump administration’s release of a major climate-change assessment that predicts dire consequences for the world’s health and economy, lies an equally urgent matter: biodiversity and its current decline.
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#1306182021-10-06
Global vaccine rollout vital to securing deal for nature, warns UN biodiversity chief
Governments hoping for a global agreement to halt biodiversity loss must put more effort into access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing countries, the UN’s biodiversity chief has warned.
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#1189002018-12-06
Governments commit to accelerate progress on biodiversity
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Global governments have recommitted to accelerate progress towards attaining the existing Aichi targets at the end of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt on Thursday.
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#1309192021-10-18
Green Pulse Podcast: Saving biodiversity: It should be in our nature
The world is full of amazing plant and animal life, without which humans could not survive. Nature, from forests to coral reefs, to soils and grasslands, provides humanity with food and materials to live. Yet nature is under great threat from our rush for resources to grow our economies and cities.
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#1306262021-10-11
Greenhouses in Kunming preserve 2,500 rare plants
More than 2,500 rare plants are on display at greenhouses in southwest China's city of Kunming, Yunnan Province. Known as "Kingdom of Plants," the greenhouses are a vivid showcase of how biodiversity has developed in China.
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#1189182018-12-06
Habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned
As a UN conference convenes to work out a new deal for protecting the planet’s biodiversity, the focus falls on the nations that are not attending
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#1306322021-10-11
Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn
World leaders must do more to prevent the destruction of nature, business leaders have warned before a summit in China that aims to draw up a draft UN agreement for biodiversity.
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#1313602021-11-01
Heating up: World leaders take center stage at climate talks
It’s time for more than 130 world leaders to feel the heat. They will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming. From U.S. President Joe Biden to Seychelles Presi ...
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#1312692021-10-28
Here Are the Goals of the COP26 Climate Change Meetings—and Where the World Stands in Accomplishing Them
Next week, thousands of ministers and diplomats from across the world will descend on an event campus in Glasgow, Scotland for the most important climate conference in recent years—and perhaps the most significant international meeting of our lifetimes.
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#1343212022-05-10
High-level UN conference debates precious commodity: Land
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), kicked-off on Monday, in the Ivorian "economic" capital.
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#1315292021-11-08
Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26
Rich countries must hit their $100bn climate finance target in the last week of Cop26 or it will be catastrophic for the poorest nations suffering the most from the climate crisis, the Gambian environment minister has warned.
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#1313762021-11-01
Hope for a 'eureka' moment on climate change persists as COP26 begins in Scotland
As the UN climate summit began in Scotland, an event billed as the "last, best hope" to save the planet from catastrophic consequences, there were more than enough reasons to feel as gloomy as the Glasgow weather that welcomed delegates.
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#1315942021-11-10
Horse trading set to begin over agreement at COP26
The UK presidency team have set out an ambitious stall in their first attempt to capture progress here at COP26. As well as the specific items mentioned in the document, it also gives us a sense of how the negotiations are going more generally.
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#1315612021-11-09
How climate damage could break the Glasgow talks
The climate talks have shifted from global pronouncements to technical skirmishes as negotiators work behind the scenes to address dangers faced by millions of people from today’s rising temperatures.
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#1309082021-10-16
How to combat the aggravating climate change and biodiversity crisis
Guests at the UN biodiversity conference held in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming have brainstormed on how to combat the aggravating climate change and biodiversity crisis in a positive and pragmatic manner.
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#1305772021-09-30
Hundreds of mosaicultures to greet UN biodiversity meeting placed in China's Kunming(1/7)
Hundreds of mosaicultures set to greet the upcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) appeal to tourists in Kunming, capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province. (China News Service/Liu Ranyang)
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#1189032018-12-06
In Sharm el Sheikh, a Time for Action on Biodiversity
The global community has gathered in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt for the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, or CBD—an international treaty to which every country in the world other than the U.S. is a member (but that’s another story).
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#1308052021-10-14
In bid to boost biodiversity, over 100 nations to adopt 'Kunming Declaration'
As of October 13, more than 100 countries have signed on to the so-called Kunming Declaration to protect biodiversity. Speaking at a U.N. climate conference in the Chinese city of Kunming, China's Environment Minister Huang Runqi praised the declaration and the enthusiasm, but added that it was ...
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#1306442021-10-11
In harmony we grow
China has over-fulfilled three of the 2020 global biodiversity targets (the Aichi targets) and made progress on 13 targets, none of which have been fully met globally. Our solutions are in nature.
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#1306472021-10-11
In pics: Kunming ready to welcome guests for biodiversity conservation meeting
The COP 15 meeting, which is scheduled to run between Oct. 11 and 15, is ready to welcome guests from home and abroad. The press center for the meeting, which opened on Oct. 9, will serve 853 journalists from 169 media outlets based in China and foreign countries, providing coverage for the even ...
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#1350142022-06-21
Include wetland conservation in upcoming biodiversity, climate change negotiations: Experts
Wetland conservation should feature as an independent topic of discussion in the negotiations at the upcoming biodiversity and climate change conferences for effective carbon sequestration, according to a new report.
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#1343542022-05-11
India committed towards target of restoring 26 mn ha degraded land by 2030 despite Covid, economic challenges: Environment Minister
Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said that the Covid-19 pandemic has “compounded the challenge of fighting global warming” as economic pressures have delayed progress of climate action around the world.
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#1307112021-10-12
India vows to mainstream biodiversity across all sectors
India on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to mainstream biodiversity across all sectors in order to conserve nature, reverse its loss and to secure a healthy planet for the current and future generations.
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#1314442021-11-03
Indian Teen's Powerful Glasgow COP26 Speech. PM Modi, Biden Were Present
A 14-year-old girl from India, speaking at the COP26 in Glasgow, told the world that her generation is "angry and frustrated at world leaders who've made empty promises" and made a direct call to action to save the planet.
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#1317092021-11-16
Indigenous peoples had a clear vision for Cop26, but it has not been delivered
Indigenous peoples came to Cop26 in Glasgow with clear goals that we wanted to see reflected in the final results. Now it is over, we don’t see the path forward we were hoping for.
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#1314832021-11-04
Infographic: COP26 goals explained in maps and charts
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) began in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 31. World leaders, climate experts, campaigners and financiers will discuss the pressing issue of intensifying climate crisis till November 12.
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#1316902021-11-15
Infographic: What has your country pledged at COP26?
After two weeks of intense negotiations, countries have struck a climate deal at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Scotland.
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#1312882021-10-29
Interactive: Who wants what at the COP26 climate change summit
Many thousands of words have been written about what the COP26 climate summit should be aiming to achieve, according to a multitude of different perspectives.
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#1308002021-10-14
Interview: China becomes strong supporter, contributor to global biodiversity agenda, says UN official
China has greatly supported and contributed to protecting biodiversity and its philosophy of ecological civilization is "critical for all countries to achieve the global biodiversity goals," a United Nations (UN) official has said.
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#1306272021-10-11
Interview: China expected to lead in global biodiversity policy-making -- environmental official
China is expected to lead the world in biodiversity policy-making with its hosting of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), said Moustafa Fouda, biodiversity advisor to the Egyptian environment minister, in a recent in ...
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#1281772021-04-22
Interview: China's ecological stewardship key to restoring planetary health -- UN environment official
The ambitious initiatives China has rolled out to promote the congruity between economic growth and the environment will boost efforts to restore the planet's health amid human and climate induced threats, a senior UN Environment Program (UNEP) official told Xinhua during an interview on the eve ...
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#1308312021-10-15
Interview: Concrete actions need to be "fine-tuned" following COP15 Kunming Declaration, says expert
Government officials "now need to roll up their sleeves and agree to concrete actions" on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the next decade set out by the Kunming Declaration, a U.S. environmental expert has said.
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#1306452021-10-11
Interview: Danish minister calls for ambition, global cooperation to fight decline in biodiversity
There is urgent need to tackle the challenges of biodiversity conservation, Danish environment minister has said, expecting cooperation with all UN nations, including China, to "halt the decline in biodiversity and make sure we hand over a richer nature to our children."
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#1316792021-11-15
Island nation at risk of extinction from rising seas laments watered down climate pact
A South Pacific island nation at risk of from rising sea levels has expressed disappointment with the international climate pact struck last week after it was watered down at the last minute.
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#1315602021-11-09
Keep fighting, Obama urges young climate activists
At 19, Glasgow college student Ross Hamilton doesn’t think highly of world leaders — “they chat a lot of” nonsense — or expect them to accomplish anything on a problem he cares deeply about, climate change.
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#1316422021-11-11
Key Cop26 pledges could put world 9% closer to 1.5C pathway
New Cop26 pledges announced on methane, coal, transport and deforestation could nudge the world 9% closer to a pathway that keeps heating to 1.5C, according to a study by the world’s most respected climate analysis coalition.
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#1309002021-10-16
Kunming Conference provides a good prospects for further work to halt biodiversity loss
The first phase of a meeting of parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity provided good prospects for further negotiations aimed at halting biodiversity loss. Hosted by China in Kunming and partly arranged as a virtual event, the main achievement of the meeting was a unified message concernin ...
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#1307282021-10-13
Kunming Declaration adopted at COP15
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
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#1307572021-10-13
Kunming Declaration announced at UN Convention on Biological Diversity – Greenpeace response
The COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) kicked off this week in Kunming, China, with a week of virtual meetings among governments and organisations.
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#1309062021-10-16
Kunming Declaration refreshes global commitment to biodiversity
With a bang of the gavel, the Kunming Declaration was adopted Wednesday in the provincial capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, providing new momentum for drawing the roadmap for biodiversity conservation in the coming decade.
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#1308582021-10-15
Kunming Declaration, Ambitious Yet Feasible
The Kunming Declaration was adopted on October 14 at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province. A main achievement of this conference, the declaration commits to ensuring the formulation, adop ...
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#1305742021-09-29
Kunming welcomes the world's most important biodiversity conference (COP15)
Between the 11th and the 15th of October, Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, will host the Conference of the Parties of the United Nation Convention on Biological Diversity.
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#1311112021-10-25
Kunming, Beijing meetings set new directions for world
China's ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that conferences held in China this month on biodiversity and green-themed transport provide new starting points for efforts toward innovation-driven development.
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#1306662021-10-12
Kyrgyz president says mountain preservation tops country's biodiversity agenda
Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov said Tuesday that his country is keen on protecting its mountain biodiversity in the face of climate change.
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#1314782021-11-04
LIVE Biggest users fail to sign up to ending coal
Some very positive news coming this morning from the influential International Energy Agency, a body that advises governments about energy.
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#1309142021-10-18
Land of Diversity – a documentary dedicated to COP15
The power of evolution prevails even in some of the world’s toughest environments. From mammals and reptiles to flowers and leafy plants, the Himalayas have some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, which have bred the most incredible diversity of life on the planet.
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#1248682020-03-25
Learning from China to protect nature
In October this year, governments from around the world are due to adopt a new global agreement to stop the loss of nature on land and in the ocean, at the most important biodiversity conference in a decade – COP15. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biologica ...