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#1239462020-01-24
Italy's Conte Proposes Introducing Provision On Environmental Protection In Constitution
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte proposed on Friday introducing a provision on environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity in the republic's constitution.
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#1330722022-02-10
Italian Constitution Edited to Protect Environment From Ongoing Climate Crisis
It's a big day for Italian environmentalists — the country has updated its constitution to account for climate change, and to protect Italy from the effects of global warming.
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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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#1333192022-02-18
Island states meet to discuss suing Global North over climate change
Leaders of small island nations met on Tuesday to discuss suing countries in the Global North for the damage caused by emissions.
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#1351552022-06-30
Is climate inaction a human rights violation?
The UN Human Rights Office clearly states that climate change threatens the enjoyment of life, food, and health. It would probably be difficult to respond to this by taking a shift in global weather patterns to court.
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#1312562021-10-28
Is China stepping up its nature conservation?
Overshadowed by climate issues, China’s biodiversity governance rarely rises to global attention. Yet, during the recently convened first session of COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference held in Kunming, President Xi Jinping promised to lead the world in “building a shared future for all life on ...
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#1280472021-04-14
Invoke Forest Rights Act for Environmental Conservation in Kashmir
THE Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition Of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, also called the Forest Rights Act or FRA is being criticised by several environmental and wildlife activists across India. They believe giving land rights to tribal and forest-dwelling population ...
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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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#1353752022-07-20
Indonesian islanders sue cement producer for climate damages
Residents of an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels have begun legal action against the cement producer Holcim. The claim for compensation, filed in Switzerland by three men and one woman, is understood to be the first major climate damages lawsuit against a cement company.
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#1328272022-02-01
Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves
Indonesia has recorded mixed progress in its dual programs of restoring tropical peatlands and mangroves, acknowledging that achieving the latter goal will be far more challenging than for the higher-profile peatlands.
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#1349702022-06-14
Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers
Indonesia has issued a much-anticipated decree to boost the protection of Indonesian deckhands working aboard foreign commercial and fishing vessels.
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#1332782022-02-16
Indigenous peoples in Guatemala demand sovereignty over oil and mining resources
A Mayan community in Guatemala is taking the government to court in a case that could recognise the right of indigenous peoples to control oil, gas and mining resources on their land.
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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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#1330792022-02-10
Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court
Guatemala – An Indigenous community engaged in a decades-long struggle for land rights in Guatemala is bringing its battle to an international court this week in a case that could have far-reaching implications for Indigenous rights and mining activity.
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#1334152022-02-22
Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law
In November 2021, the Kenyan parliament proposed a bill that would effectively eliminate the Kenya Forest Service’s (KFS) role as an intermediary between petitioners and parliament in requests to alter forest boundaries.
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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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#1333772022-02-21
India, France agree on Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance
India and France have agreed on a Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance with the aim to contribute to scientific knowledge and ocean conservation and ensure that the ocean remains a global common, based on the rule of law.
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#1341022022-04-18
India can help other countries achieve their climate change goals: UN representative
India not only has the potential to become a net-zero carbon emission country by 2070 but can also support others in achieving their climate change goals, said Rachel Kyte, a member of the UN Secretary General's high-level advisory group on climate action.
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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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#1348912022-06-07
In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid
It was a banner moment at COP26, one of the climate summit’s headline achievements. On stage, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo as the two put their pens to paper.
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#1337212022-03-07
In plan for African wildlife corridors, there’s more than one elephant in the room
An international conservation group is pushing forward with ambitious plans for extended elephant corridors in Africa that would allow the animals room to move more freely — not just across adjacent borders but across the length and breadth of nearly half the continent.
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#1327162022-01-25
In a battle between this endangered flower and a lithium mine, who should win?
In a remote corner of Nevada a four hour drive north of Las Vegas, there’s a small yellow flower that exists nowhere else in the world: Its entire global habitat takes up a chunk of federally-owned land a little smaller than two football fields.
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#1340002022-04-12
In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve
Gabon’s environment minister has announced an immediate end to the logging of the Massaha ancestral forest in the country’s northeast, setting his administration a two-month deadline to finalize technical questions for permanent protection of the site.
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#1350342022-06-22
In Costa Rica, unlicensed fishers and regulators unite over a common enemy
Every morning, just after dawn, small-scale fishers Ettel Lattouche and Rafael Hernández head to the beach with their fishing gear to eke out a living. Together, the couple venture deep into the ocean off Punta Uva, a small town on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast, and hope to return with s ...
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#1338822022-03-31
Improving biodiversity monitoring in Europe
The European data landscape is highly fragmented in the area of biodiversity. A variety of different methods for data collection and analysis often makes it impossible to compare across countries the information that has been obtained.
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#1345352022-05-18
Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories
Illegal miners expanded their footprint in Indigenous territories in Brazil by nearly 500% between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent report from the research collective MapBiomas. It also shows that illegal miners boosted their presence in conservation units by 301% during the same period.
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#1354122022-07-21
IUCN and MoCC launch Pakistan’s First-ever Climate Change Gender Action Plan
IUCN comes forward with new commitments and initiatives in its Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP) to strengthen the resilience of women and girls in the face of climate-related impacts, while aiming to accelerate progress and support gender-responsive climate action plan.
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#1272542021-02-22
Human rights laws may be most effective way to protect the Amazon, study shows
Using laws governing human rights may be the best way of harnessing international legislation and tribunals to protect the Amazon, a new study shows.
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#1321222021-12-09
Human Rights Depend on a Thriving Natural World
Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.
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#1291012021-06-07
Human Decision-Making in Climate Reconstructions Can Lead to Substantially Different Results
The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different results.
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#1244442020-03-02
How using biodiversity indicators can improve conservation effectiveness
How is biodiversity doing? What are the important trends? Are conservation actions effective? The answers to these three questions are vital to the decision-making process regarding conservation efforts, and depend on the use of indicators and other evidence-based measurements of biodiversity.
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#1346852022-05-25
How two Goldman prize winners won landmark rulings in Dutch courts
The road to a landmark legal victory compelling the Dutch government to take climate action began a decade ago when the 2022 Goldman prize winner Marjan Minnesma received an official letter saying the government did not want to be a frontrunner in tackling the climate crisis.
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#1311782021-10-26
How to know if a country is serious about net zero: Look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels
Fresh emissions targets from Saudi Arabia and Australia—two of the world's largest fossil-fuel producers—are due to arrive just in time for global climate talks in Glasgow. These would commit the two countries to reducing domestic emissions to net zero by around mid-century—though both are expec ...
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#1333242022-02-18
How the US commitment to lower emissions will affect the fight against climate change
US President Joe Biden has made tackling climate change a top priority. One of his first orders in 2021 was to appoint John Kerry as the first US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. The Biden-Harris Administration have, since then, pursued an environmental agenda, backed by a push for clear ...
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#1345242022-05-17
How climate law can help to prevent the next pandemic
Two of the biggest crises humanity faces — pandemics and climate change — are intertwined. Climate change boosts many health risks, including the likelihood that new viruses will spill over to cause dangerous outbreaks.
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#1288372021-05-26
How can Finland confront the climate crisis and preserve its biodiversity?
Krista Mikkonen, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change in Finland illustrates why a circular economy will provide the means to tackle the climate crisis and loss of biodiversity.
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#1344302022-05-13
How Municipalities are Tackling Food Waste and Climate Change
Food and climate change are increasingly becoming advocacy issues tied together, according to speakers at the WasteExpo session, “Municipal and State Food Waste Policy as a Lever for Tackling Climate Change.”
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#1327362022-01-25
How Leaders Can Move Beyond Greenwashing Toward Real Change
At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), former President Barack Obama asked those gathered and tuning in to consider the question: “How do we close the gap between what’s necessary for our survival and what seems politically possible right now?”
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#1328772022-02-02
How Brazil's government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also imagine that, working with federal politicians, they change the law to downsize the park by a million acres, which they sell in a private auction.
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#1200712019-02-22
Hope is not a biodiversity strategy
The public is being encouraged to have its say on a new Biodiversity Strategy - hoped to be more effective than the previous one - and an accompanying policy to provide the "teeth" needed to help threatened species.
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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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#1352992022-07-12
Harris to request $600M for ocean resilience in Pacific Islands
Vice President Harris on Tuesday will request $600 million in funding for economic development and ocean resilience, which is intended to build on efforts that enable U.S. fishing-fleet access to the Pacific and combat the scourge of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
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#1313242021-10-29
Hard or soft law: what’s the status of EU sustainable agriculture goals?
With the recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Commission wants to make the EU’s farming subsidy programme more performance-oriented. However, non-binding targets and national leeway might hinder the Commission’s quest to keep track of results.
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#1349772022-06-14
Happy the Elephant Isn’t a Person, Top New York Court Rules
An animal advocacy group had argued that the elephant was being illegally detained at the Bronx Zoo, in a case involving deep ethical questions about the basic rights of highly intelligent animals.
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#1335232022-02-25
Guest post: How to model society’s response to climate change
How ambitious climate policy will be in the future is key to understanding the scale of climate change impacts we can expect. Yet, the question of how society responds to climate change is not well represented in climate and energy models.
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#1251032020-04-16
Green recovery alliance launched in European Parliament
An informal alliance has been launched in the European Parliament on the back of calls from 12 EU environment ministers who have signed an appeal for a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1354852022-07-27
Gov’t urged to gather comprehensive primary data on Ghana’s ecosystems
Professor Alfred Apau Oteng-Yeboah, a renowned botanist and Chairperson of the National Biodiversity Committee (NBC) of Ghana, is asking the Government to gather comprehensive primary data on Ghana’s ecosystems, plant and animal species.
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#1225522019-10-07
Governments must provide fundamental rights to certain animals: scientist
Legal proceedings conducted on behalf of apes and animals who are starved for the purpose of an ecological project. What position do animals actually have in the rule of law? And what changes need to be made? Ph.D. candidate Janneke Vink defends her dissertation on 10 October.
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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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#1292702021-06-11
Government sets out commitments to biodiversity and sustainability in G7 Nature Compact
G7 leaders have agreed commitments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, and tackle deforestation, marine litter and illegal wildlife trade.