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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#1300932021-08-20
Census could be blessing or bane for Romania's bears
Romania will soon conduct a census of its protected brown bears using DNA for the first time, with tensions raised between villagers fearing further attacks and conservationists warning against looser hunting laws.
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#1300972021-08-20
Climate Crisis – A Solution in the Hands of Global Leaders and Politicians
There is an urgent need for the heads of global and regional groupings, states and governments to formulate, implement and adequately resource pro-poor climate change policies and actions to protect the communities worst-affected by climate change in the world.
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#1300402021-08-19
Why is life on Earth still taking second place to fossil fuel companies?
The human tragedy is that there is no connection between what we know and what we do. Almost everyone is now at least vaguely aware that we face the greatest catastrophe our species has ever confronted. Yet scarcely anyone alters their behaviour in response: above all, their driving, flying and ...
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#1300482021-08-19
Opinion | Can Climate Change Teach Middle East Leaders How to Be Friends?
As the latest wildfires amply demonstrate, the effects of climate change are now upon us. But the region is wholly unprepared to deal with them.
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#1300722021-08-19
Ghana developing first Biodiversity Policy to protect nature
Ghana is developing its first Biodiversity Policy aimed at reducing threats to its over 6,000 flora and fauna to promote the sustainable utilization of biodiversity and benefits sharing to meet the people’s needs.
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#1300762021-08-19
What China’s new guidelines on ‘green development’ mean for the Belt and Road
The “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, issued jointly by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), encourages Chinese businesses to integrate green development throughout the overseas investment process.
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#1299942021-08-18
The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s strongest-ever climate bill
The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is clear and foreboding. If the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions, the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage. The world that we will be leaving our ch ...
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#1299242021-08-13
Treasury blocking green policies key to UK net zero target
The Treasury is blocking green policies essential to put the UK on track to net zero emissions, imperilling the UK’s own targets and the success of vital UN climate talks, experts have told the Guardian.
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#1298612021-08-10
Scotland's beaver population doubles to 1000 in three years
The number of beavers in Scotland have more than doubled in the last three years, new figures reveal. Natural environment agency NatureScot says there are now about 1,000 of the animals. Legislation was introduced in 2019 to make beavers a protected species, meaning it's illegal to kill or distu ...
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#1298332021-08-09
Analysis of DRR inclusion in national climate change commitments
The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)/Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and contributing documents to better understand how disaster risk management is approached in climate change documents, and if systemic risk issues where impacts cascade a ...
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#1297832021-07-29
Marine and coastal leaders call for national strategy to protect oceans
The 15th National Coast to Coast Conference delegates have called for the Australian Government to adopt a National Sustainable Oceans and Coasts Strategy.
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#1297422021-07-28
Biden mileage rule to exceed Obama climate goal
In a major step against climate change, President Joe Biden is proposing a return to aggressive Obama-era vehicle mileage standards over five years, according to industry and government officials briefed on the plan. He’s then aiming for even tougher anti-pollution rules after that to forcefully ...
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#1297472021-07-28
New plan launched to safeguard wildlife in Leicester
The new Leicester Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-31 sets out how the Council will focus conservation work on wildlife habitats and species that are most in need to help protect local biodiversity.
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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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#1296962021-07-27
California’s Opportunity To Shape Worldwide Biodiversity Policy
California, like the rest of the world, must wrestle with a hard truth: Our climate has changed. As we face another water-shortage crisis, we must acknowledge a sobering reality: We’re not in a drought. This is our new normal. And we need to adapt.
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#1297122021-07-27
UNESCO Says Australia's Great Barrier Reef Isn't In Danger Yet. Many Environmentalists and Divers Disagree
Tony Fontes first went scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef in 1979 on a trip to Australia. Fontes, a native Californian, was so entranced that he decided to stay and work as a dive instructor at Airlie Beach, a coastal resort town in Queensland that serves as a gateway to the reef.
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#1297262021-07-27
South Africa: Minister Barbara Creecy Participates in July Ministerial Climate Change Meeting in London, UK
Minister Barbara Creecy, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment participated in a July Ministerial Climate Change meeting hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 26 President-Designate, Mr. Alok Sharma, on 25 and 26 July 2021 in London, UK.
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#1296672021-07-26
Should rivers have the same rights as people?
The Magpie River winds majestically through the forests of Quebec for nearly 200 miles. Its thundering ribbon of blue is cherished by kayakers, white-water rafters and the indigenous Innu people of Ekuanitshit. Earlier this year, in a first for Canada, the river was granted legal personhood by l ...
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#1296752021-07-26
Kenya: Government in Sh6.2 Trillion Plan to Combat Climate Change
Kenya requires Sh6.2 trillion over the next 10 years to fund its war on climate change. The country requires Sh620 billion annually -- Sh180 billion to reduce the severity of the climate change fall out and Sh440 billion to build resilience. Part of the strategies includes cutting greenhouse gas ...
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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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#1296392021-07-23
G20 on Environment supports creation of an International network of environmental experts in UNESCO sites
The Environment Ministers of G20 member states, meeting in Naples, supported the Italian initiative establishing a UNESCO Network of international environmental experts across all UNESCO designated sites around the world – biosphere reserves, Global Geoparks and natural heritage sites. This netw ...
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#1296402021-07-23
G20 environment meeting opens with ambitious joint document
G20 environment and energy ministers Thursday held their first day of meetings in the Italian city of Naples, after which they issued a joint document on the protection of nature, especially ecosystems. This document implies the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as circular econ ...
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#1296422021-07-23
Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says
Kolombangara Island forms a 30-kilometer (19-mile) circle of green in the Solomon Sea. One of more than 900 islands that make up the Solomon Islands, it is fringed by coral reefs and dominated by a volcanic peak, which rises to 1,770 meters (5,800 feet). Ravines of more than 75 river catchments ...
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#1296432021-07-23
Environmental rights must be preserved in the Constitution
The Government should deliver on its promise to convene a Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity loss – this would provide an opportune forum to discuss the insertion of environmental rights into the Constitution.
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#1296482021-07-23
Conservationists urge Congo to reverse pay-to-poach decision
Environmentalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday urged the government to reverse a move to tax rather than forbid poaching, saying the move endangered millions in conservation funds.
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#1296612021-07-23
World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list
The Great Barrier Reef will not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” after a global lobbying effort from Australia against the proposed listing.
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#1296182021-07-22
FAO Director-General tells G20: to have healthy food, we need a healthy environment
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today called on G20 Environment Ministersto step up joint efforts, increase investment and work more closely with FAO for game-changing impacts on the planet.
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#1296252021-07-22
Water policy reforms to deliver ambitious environmental agenda
The Government and water regulators (Environment Agency and Ofwat) have today (22 July) set out an ambitious programme of reform to build back greener from the pandemic through the review of the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP).
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#1296272021-07-22
G20 environment ministers meet in Italy amid floods, fires
With forest fires raging in the U.S. and Russia and floods devastating parts of Western Europe, environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 industrialized countries gathered Thursday for two days of talks ahead of November’s crucial climate change conference.
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#1296002021-07-21
New biodiversity algorithm ‘will blight range of natural habitats in England’
The government’s new metric for biodiversity will have to be urgently improved if it is going to be fit for purpose, academics and conservationists have warned.