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#1301212021-08-24
Zimbabwe: AfCFTA Should Enhance Bio-Diversity Trading - UN
THE United Nations has called upon Africa to mainstream trade and bio-diversity to unlock wider economic potential under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The continent is regarded as one of the most bio-diverse regions on earth and yet commitments negotiated so far under the lan ...
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#1302622021-09-03
Global biodiversity conference kicks off in Marseille
A major conference on biodiversity opens in the French city of Marseille on Friday. Over 1,000 governmental and civil society organisations will discuss how to protect some of the one million species threatened by human actions.
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#1302632021-09-03
The world conference on biodiversity begins in Marseille
More than 1,000 government and civil society organizations will discuss how to protect some of the million species threatened by human actions. “The answer is very simple. We have natural capital. We have nature. We have been taking and taking and taking for decades to build our society. Now we ...
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#1302662021-09-03
NGOs demand action for imperilled wildlife at Marseille biodiversity conference
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) conference started on Friday in France’s second-largest city Marseille – with NGOs and scientists hoping to take the world from a sense of urgency to concrete action to protect the planet's imperilled wildlife.
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#1302672021-09-03
Indian wolf among world’s most endangered and distinct wolves
The Indian wolf could be far more endangered than previously recognized, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and the scientists who sequenced the Indian wolf's genome for the first time.
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#1303032021-09-07
Indigenous groups join Marseille conservation conference, armed with voting rights
Newly armed with voting rights, indigenous peoples have come to the world's leading conservation congress meeting in the southern French city of Marseille both hopeful and wary. Their representatives say they have clear demands, and will not go quietly into the night.
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#1303042021-09-07
Pacific bluefin tuna no longer listed as ‘vulnerable’
Pacific bluefin tuna are on the path to resource recovery and its classification moved to “near threatened” from “vulnerable,” according to the latest update of the Red List of Threatened Species, released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a group of governmental and ...
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#1303052021-09-07
Preserving 80% of Amazon Rainforest Can Save it for the Future Generations
Should 80 percent of the Amazon be proclaimed a safeguarded region in the year 2025? On Sunday, the top conservation body in the world is poised to make a decision on whether its 1,400 members can make a formal indication of their choice on this contentious proposal which indigenous groups put f ...
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#1303072021-09-07
World’s biggest biodiversity summit since COVID opens in Marseille
Emmanuel Macron addresses IUCN World Conservation Congress, warning “there is no vaccine for a sick planet”. EURACTIV’s media partner, The Guardian, reports.
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#1303092021-09-07
Australian State Announces Bold 'Zero Extinction' Plan to Protect Endangered Species
Koalas, rock wallabies and the Nightcap Oak, a rare tree, are some of the iconic species to be protected under an “historic” zero extinction plan in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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#1303102021-09-07
Wolf Populations Drop as More States Allow Hunting
Gray wolves once roamed the entire North American continent, from the scrubby deserts of Mexico to the boreal forests of Alaska. But by the 1950s decades of overhunting and habitat loss had nearly extirpated the species in the contiguous United States.
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#1303112021-09-07
World leaders must take bold, transformative measures to protect threatened species
In 1973, when I was 15 years old, there were less than 4 billion people on the planet. The Iron and Bamboo Curtains cut huge swathes of the world off from each other. Unfettered global trade was years away.
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#1303172021-09-07
Policy Brief: Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
This policy brief explores the challenges faced in disaster risk governance in relation to the climate emergency. Collective action, political leadership, and financing are needed to keep the global average temperature within the 1.5 degrees safer limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.
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#1303452021-09-09
Marseille biodiversity summit adopts motion to ban deep-sea mining
A motion calling for a ban on deep-sea mining has been adopted in Marseille at the world’s biggest biodiversity summit since the pandemic, after an overwhelmingly supportive vote by governments and civil society groups.
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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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#1303592021-09-13
India Committed To Combat Biggest Global Challenge In Climate Change, Says Environment Minister Bhupender YADAV
Climate change is the biggest global challenge and India is committed to combat it, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Monday.
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#1303602021-09-13
Proposed changes to law on environmental pollution will boost efforts to tackle climate change, noise
Singapore's efforts to tackle climate change and noise pollution will get more bite under proposed changes to a law governing environmental pollution.
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#1303702021-09-13
Loss Of Biodiversity Threatens Food Supply In Africa ― Ikeazor http
Minister of Environment, Sharon Ikeazor has said that the livelihood of millions of Nigerians is threatened by the loss of biodiversity in the country and around the world.
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#1303952021-09-14
Assessing the impact of the European Union Green Deal
A significant reduction in agricultural production in the European Union with full implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy of the European Green Deal: that is one result of the study to assess the impact of the Green Deal published today (Monday 13 September), which was led by Professor Chri ...
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#1304292021-09-15
Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement on climate, analysis shows
None of the world's major economies -- including the entire G20 -- have a climate plan that meets their obligations under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to an analysis published Wednesday, despite scientists' warning that deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed now.
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#1304532021-09-15
State of the EU 2021: What are the key takeaways from von der Leyen's annual speech?
The fights against COVID-19 and climate change will be the main priorities for the European Union in the coming year, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday during her annual State of the European Union address.
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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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#1304662021-09-15
Conservationists set out ‘nature positive’ vision for global biodiversity deal
Conservationists have called on countries to make the world “nature positive” by 2030 as they hope to shape slow and difficult international negotiations to protect the planet’s plants and wildlife.
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#1304822021-09-20
‘Climate crisis on our shores’: Mediterranean countries sign deal after summer of fires
With the catastrophic effects of this summer’s unprecedented wildfires still being counted, leaders from around the Mediterranean – the European region most at risk from climate breakdown – have vowed to intensify their efforts to tackle the challenges posed by extreme weather.
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#1304852021-09-20
Africa: 54 African Environment Ministers Vow to Tackle Climate Change
Fifty four African Environment ministers have resolved to step up the continent's response to accelerating green and sustainable recovery programmes to tackle climate change.
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#1304952021-09-20
US unveils plan to address 'silent killer' extreme heat
The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat after a dangerously hot summer that spurred an onslaught of drought-worsened wildfires and caused hundreds of deaths from the Pacific Northwest to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana.
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#1305202021-09-22
'Walk the talk' after food systems summit, scientists urge
Leaders from more than 85 countries will pledge their commitment to transforming food systems at the UN Food Systems Summit this week, but scientists say close monitoring of their actions beyond the talks will be the true test of success.
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#1305242021-09-22
China, US unveil separate major steps to fight climate change
Two of the biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change Tuesday.
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#1305252021-09-22
The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies
There was a time when tiger expert Dale Miquelle wasn’t sure if there’d ever be a substantial population of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in China again. In the 1990s, Miquelle and his colleagues estimated there to only be about eight of these big cats, also commonly referred to as Siber ...
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#1305412021-09-23
Nigeria To Establish 10 National Parks To Tackle Biodiversity Loss, Says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that 10 new national parks will be established as part of moves to tackle biodiversity loss. The Nigerian leader said this on Wednesday in a video message to the hybrid High-Level event tagged “Transformative Actions for Nature and People” on the margins ...
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#1305442021-09-23
Biden’s EPA orders slash in climate-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration
The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering a sharp cutback in the the use and production of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the climate-warming chemicals widely used in air-conditioning and refrigeration.
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#1305512021-09-23
The Private Sector Takes a Stand for Oceans During Climate Week
Climate Week in New York City started out with a clear message: The time for talking has passed; put your words into action. Climate action comes in many forms — policy change, investments in ecosystem restoration, clean technology innovation and much more. Oceans, increasingly under threat from ...
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#1306032021-09-30
Xi stresses improving biosecurity risk control, management system
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed efforts to improve the country's risk control and management system on biosecurity, and to enhance its governance capacity in this regard.
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#1306142021-10-06
Australia must increase 2030 emissions target to help avoid ‘catastrophic’ heating, Samoan PM says
Australia needs to increase the ambition of its 2030 emissions reduction target and “come back to the climate financing table” at the looming Cop26 talks in Glasgow, according to the prime minister of Samoa.
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#1307172021-10-13
Biodiversity is practically extinct in ministers' budget pronouncements
The words "biodiversity crisis" were conspicuous by their absence from the two ministerial speeches during Budget 2022 and a Department of Environment briefing with another minister and two junior ministers afterwards.
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#1309272021-10-19
Interview: Kunming Declaration ushers in new era for biodiversity conservation, says FAO official
The Kunming Declaration ushers in a new era for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has told Xinhua.
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#1309302021-10-19
Biodiversity protection now more pressing than ever
The world is losing its biodiversity faster than at any time in the recorded past centuries. The danger this loss represents is enormous, and reversing the damage will require a coordinated global effort.
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#1309462021-10-19
UK government reveals net zero plan it says will create up to 440,000 jobs
The UK government has set out its long-awaited strategy for reaching net zero emissions, with a plan ministers said would create up to 440,000 jobs and “unlock” £90bn in investment in the next decade, most of it from private sector companies.
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#1309492021-10-19
More inclusive and coherent global action on deforestation urgently needed
Deforestation and forest degradation, mainly due to agricultural expansion, lead to the loss of roughly 9 million hectares of natural forest per year, say a team of political and environmental researchers including from the University of Oxford.
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#1309722021-10-19
Nature charities urge Chancellor to ramp up biodiversity spending in Budget
New modelling from leading green campaign groups suggests a minimum investment of £1.2bn a year is needed to achieve the UK's nature protection goals, as concerns grow that Environment Bill could be watered down
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#1309812021-10-20
ASEAN Countries Must Lead on Biodiversity
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, and it is also highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Policymakers in the region must ensure that plans to preserve nature while promoting sustainable economic growth are part of the post-pandemic recovery.
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#1310292021-10-21
Multilateral Environmental Agreements on Chemicals and Waste, Ozone Depletion and Biodiversity
Trinidad and Tobago is leading the way in providing solutions to global environmental issues through multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)
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#1310372021-10-21
Norway reveals plans for river trap system to protect wild salmon
Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts.
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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.
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#1310402021-10-21
B.C. forests minister introduces bill to overhaul forest practices
British Columbia’s forests minister has introduced a bill to amend the Forest and Range Practices Act, saying it would “reshape” forest management in the province.
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#1310822021-10-22
Stop overfishing or we’ll buy elsewhere, top UK fish firm warns European states
The UK’s largest seafood processor is threatening to stop sourcing fish from the north-east Atlantic unless coastal states, including the UK and countries in the EU, reach a suitable agreement on managing populations this month.
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#1311122021-10-25
Robinson-Regis warns of $billions in biodiversity loss
Minister of Planning and Development, Camille Robinson-Regis is warning that Trinidad and Tobago can lose up to US$1 billion in biodiversity resources and services, tourism and other economic activity as a result of climate change.
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#1311162021-10-25
Germany Commits N$4.17 Billion For Development Cooperation With Namibia
Germany has committed N$4.17 billion in grants and loans for bilateral technical and financial cooperation during this years government negotiations with Namibia, held on 20 and 21 October in Windhoek.
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#1311512021-10-26
US judge: Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos legally 'people'
The offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.
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#1311592021-10-26
Climate change: Australia pledges net zero emissions by 2050
Leading global coal and gas supplier Australia has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Prime Minister Scott Morrison however said the plan would not include ending Australia's fossil fuel sectors.