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#1311652021-10-26
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Climate Change and Diplomacy
COVID-19 is the first genuinely global health emergency. Although earlier pandemics devastated regions, they often took months or years to spread and had little impact elsewhere. The novel coronavirus moved faster and farther, affecting every population across the world. Infection and death rate ...
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#1311752021-10-26
Between the lines, Morrison's plan has coal on the way out, with the future bright
The most striking feature of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's long-term emissions reduction plan outlined on Tuesday is not the long-telegraphed commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, or the promise of a A$20 billion clean energy program (around 0.2% of national income annually).
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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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#1311812021-10-26
A new plan for our planet: What does the Environment Bill mean for developers, landowners and local authorities?
The initiative, that I introduced to the UK as a concept when I set up the Environment Bank in 2007, will be a major game-changer in the way biodiversity is considered within the development sector. Biodiversity loss poses a massive existential threat to us - we cannot afford not to restore biod ...
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#1312052021-10-27
Timing is everything: Researchers reveal why the right sequence of policies is essential to slow deforestation
Knowing the steps is not the same thing as knowing how to dance. Similarly, policy interventions to stop deforestation are most effective when enacted in a certain order, according to a new Stanford study.
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#1312222021-10-27
For Canada, meeting its current climate targets will be complicated and expensive
The historical pattern holds true with past agreements struck in Rio, Kyoto and Copenhagen. To meet the Paris target and the federal government's revised target unveiled this summer, considerable change is necessary.
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#1312282021-10-28
T&T’s biodiversity must be protected from extinction
The blazing crimson of the scarlet ibis. The vibrant yellows of the poui tree. The intriguing spots of the ocelot. All examples of the rich biodiversity of Trinidad and Tobago. But without protection from exploitation and degradation, they could all be lost to this generation and future generations.
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#1312512021-10-28
Cop26 chance to win a ‘victory’ for life on Earth but more action needed: Kerry
Cop26 is the “chance to win a victory for the next century, for life on this planet”, US climate envoy John Kerry has said, while warning all big emitters must take action on climate change.
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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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#1312592021-10-28
World’s chief scientists urge Cop26 attendees to step up low-carbon policies
Chief scientists and presidents of the national science academies of more than 20 countries including Sir Patrick Vallance have written to world leaders ahead of the Cop26 climate summit, urging them to set out policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sharply, to limit global heating to 1.5C.
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#1312602021-10-28
Net zero is not enough – we need to build a nature-positive future
Nearly two years after the first reported case of Covid-19, the world is still facing the repercussions. At the same time, the extent of our planetary emergency – of climate crisis, biodiversity loss and inequality – has become evident.
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#1312612021-10-28
Can an animal be a person? Yes – if they are Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos
In the US, a federal court has recognised the hippos as “interested persons” with legal rights. But the case to really watch out for is that of Happy the elephant
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#1312652021-10-28
Wading into uncharted waters of financial evaluation of biodiversity – Endangered Wildlife OÜ
Start-ups have gained a worldwide reputation as movers and shakers of climate-friendly policies. Here in the Baltics, with the European Green Deal and Paris Agreement as north stars, a number of Baltic start-ups are harnessing climate impact technologies towards true industry transformation unde ...
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#1312762021-10-28
Utilizing brand to drive an authentic response to climate change in the energy industry
As the dust settles on the release of the recent IPCC report, and the truth that humans are unequivocally responsible for climate change has been confirmed beyond doubt, the focus of the mainstream media has started to wane. While newer headlines inevitably push the topic further down the page, ...
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#1313022021-10-29
Forget fine art: investors urged to put their money into rewilding
Forget gold, vintage wines and fine art: investors and landowners are being urged to put their money into Tamworth pigs, Dalmatian pelicans and ponds dug by beavers.
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#1313162021-10-29
California lawmakers call for changes after Orange County oil spill
Weeks after a massive oil spill marred the Orange County coast with significant environmental and economic damage, state lawmakers met in Sacramento on Thursday to demand that those responsible "be held accountable," with one legislator calling for an end to offshore drilling in California.
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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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#1313282021-10-29
Zoonotic pathogens threaten humans, snow leopards in High Asia: Policy brief
The remote mountains of inner Asia could witness future pandemics which could threaten both humans as well as non-human species such as snow leopards, a new policy brief has said.
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#1316862021-11-15
Nature & You: Is this woodpecker extinct ... or not?
I am a birdwatcher. Thus, it came as a breath-robbing gut punch when I received the news in late September that the U.S. government had officially declared the ivory-billed woodpecker as being extinct.
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#1317462021-11-16
One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure package signed by President Joe Biden on Monday will not go down in history as a milestone in America’s effort to control the climate crisis.
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#1317492021-11-17
EU aims to curb deforestation with beef and coffee import ban
Beef, palm oil, cocoa and other products linked to deforestation will be banned from entering the European Union under landmark legal proposals that attempt to help prevent the felling of the world’s great forests.
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#1317822021-11-18
Climate-vulnerable countries call for help forcing high emitters to act
Some of the countries most vulnerable to climate breakdown have called on the UN and the UK and other countries who want to lead the climate fight to help them ensure high emitters upgrade their carbon targets, as called for at the Cop26 summit.
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#1318062021-11-18
US throws support behind treaty to curb plastic
The United States on Thursday threw its support behind negotiations on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, ending a key holdup in international efforts to clean up the planet's oceans and save marine life.
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#1318102021-11-18
Nobody can Manufacture Food Products Derived from GMOs: FSSAI
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released draft regulations stating that no one can manufacture or sell any food products or food ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without prior approval in a move that is expected to bring regulatory clari ...
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#1318122021-11-18
Farmers: we’re a step ahead on climate change policy
Farmers are taking significant measures to control the outcome of climate change legislation. For one, they’ve given the job to professionals. Farmers decide on their priorities, set their lobbyists in motion, then go back to farming and see what happens.
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#1318412021-11-19
Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue
Early on the morning of Nov. 15, five Constitutional Court judges arrived by canoe to the Indigenous Cofan community of Sinangoe in Ecuador’s northern Amazon rainforest, wearing rubber boots and loose clothing to weather the intense jungle heat.
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#1318462021-11-19
Climate campaigners take South Africa to court over coal policy
South Africa’s plan to build new coal-fired power stations during the climate crisis is being challenged in court for breaching the rights of current and future generations.
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#1318522021-11-19
Protections for western bird will get new look under Biden
The Biden administration on Friday said it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species once found across much of the U.S. West that has suffered drastic declines in recent decades due to oil and gas drilling, grazing, wildfires and other pressures.
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#1319122021-11-24
For peace, security, prosperity and development
The parties agreed to continue to support the implementation of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan IV (2021–2025), and welcome the strengthening of cooperation within the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC), the BIMP-EAGA-China Cooperation (BECC) and other relevant sub-regional fr ...
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#1318882021-11-24
Biodiversity payments legislation is promising for farmers
Farmers for Climate Action has welcomed news that the Federal Government will legislate so that farmers can sell biodiversity outcomes to willing buyers.
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#1319062021-11-24
Call for recognition of rare native livestock in farming policy
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has called for Scotland’s new farming policy to recognise native livestock and equine breeds for their biodiversity significance, In a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation paper on a new national agricultural policy, RBST pointed out that the ...
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#1318722021-11-24
Sato seeks passage of ecological protection bills: 'No price tag on environmental sustainability'
Sato, who is now serving as a United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Global Legislative Champion for Biodiversity and Environment, has pledged to continue to ensure the protection of the province’s ecology as she vowed solid support for programs and advocacies that would protect and conserv ...
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#1320362021-12-03
Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules
Ecuador’s highest court has ruled that plans to mine for copper and gold in a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.
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#1320382021-12-03
European Green Deal: Commission welcomes political agreement on the 8th Environment Action Programme
The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on the 8th Environment Action Programme (EAP). The 8th EAP anchors the member states' and Parliament's commitment to environmental and climate action until 2030, guided by a long-t ...
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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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#1321122021-12-09
Why it's time to make ecocide a crime, for the sake of its victims
In November, the world's first global citizens' assembly—made up of 100 people chosen by lottery from around the world—declared its recommended responses to the climate crisis at the UN climate conference COP26. Among these recommendations was that causing severe environmental destruction, or "e ...
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#1321292021-12-10
Explained: How Clean Ocean Linked To Human Rights
As the world is observing the Human Rights Day on December 10, there is a need for everyone to know how the importance of clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In October this year, the UN Human Rights Council recognized that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.
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#1321392021-12-10
WWF-Malaysia, Sabah sign deal on forest conservation
The State Government has signed a MoU with WWF-Malaysia to enhance inclusive conservation practices in Sabah focusing on biodiversity conservation and maintaining forest ecosystem integrity through responsible forest governance.
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#1321952021-12-16
Editorial - Protect forests
Instead of allowing the people to build houses in the forest areas, they can be leased under the leasehold policy.
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#1322062021-12-17
UK fishing licences for bottom trawling could be unlawful, says Oceana
Permits for UK and EU vessels will hinder efforts to protect marine life and may break habitats directive, conservation group warns
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#1322432021-12-21
Analysis: Chile miners brace as president elect signals environmental crackdown
Chile's mining sector is bracing for tighter environmental rules ahead after President-elect Gabriel Boric pledged to oppose a controversial $2.5 billion iron-copper mine that was approved in August after years of legal wrangling.
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#1322522021-12-21
Conservationists express concern over the increasing loss in the country’s biodiversity
The latest findings from a study by the Worldwide Fund for nature have cited several factors fuelling biodiversity loss. Among these are the Unsustainable land use management for food and energy, and Government policies failing to promote environmental stewardship.
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#1322542021-12-21
Proposed Amendment to Biodiversity Act Is a Trojan Horse for Businesses, Centre
ccording to its amendment’s statement of object and reasons, the Biological Diversity Amendment Bill 2021 seeks, among other things, to bring in more “foreign investment” and “fast-track” the research and patent application processes required to make use of India’s biological resources.
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#1322892022-01-04
Law change allows wild birds to be killed to protect game birds in England
Some wild birds can now be killed in order to protect game birds bred for shooting in England, after the government updated guidelines on its general licences.
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#1323242022-01-05
Five big questions for 2022
We live in such a volatile, unpredictable world, that trying to make predictions seems slightly ludicrous. Yet, in this UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, we need to be pleasantly surprised. So, instead of predictions, I think it is worth posing some big environmental questions which we need ...
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#1323332022-01-06
England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land
Farmers in England will be given taxpayers’ cash to rewild their land, under plans for large-scale nature recovery projects announced by the government. These will lead to vast tracts of land being newly managed to conserve species, provide habitats for wildlife and restore health to rivers and ...
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#1324002022-01-11
Why modern governments all need a ministry of the oceans
The ocean is becoming ever more central to our economies. Around 80% of internationally traded goods are transported by sea, and even brief blockages cause panic in global markets. Fishing remains big business, but in the 21st-century fish farming is even bigger.
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#1324142022-01-11
Why Amendments to India’s Biodiversity Act Need a Public Debate
Twenty years after India enacted the Biological Diversity (BD) Act, 2002 the law is back on the drawing board. A Bill to amend the Act was tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Union environment minister on December 16, 2021. Since its inception, the law has framed the interactions between the environm ...
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#1324172022-01-12
Why Companies Are Willing to Reduce Profits to Reach Climate Goals
The UN climate change conference (COP26) that ended in Glasgow in November may have put the climate issue on the world’s agenda, but in the absence of practical resolutions or sanctions, the goal of limiting global warming to only 1.5 degrees Celsius seems unrealistic.
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#1324182022-01-12
Germany ‘must triple pace of emissions cuts’ to meet 2030 target
Germany missed its climate target for 2021 and is likely to miss them again this year and next, according to vice chancellor Robert Habeck, who said the country “must triple the pace of emission cuts” to reach its 2030 goals.