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#1314192021-11-02
Putin tells COP26 forest conservation vital to curbing climate change
President Vladimir Putin said it was vital to protect forests to curb climate change and that Russia would draw on its own vast forestland to meet its emissions pledges, speaking in a pre-recorded video broadcast at the COP26 climate talks https://www.reuters.com/business/cop on Tuesday.
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#1313332021-11-01
Queueing chaos outside Cop26 venue as leaders arrive – live
Scenes like this have not been seen at a Cop since the poorly prepared Copenhagen conference in 2009. A crowd of many hundreds, probably at least 2,000 just in the forward bit, gathered at the entrance where there seemed to be no preparation, no attempt to encourage people to queue rather than s ...
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#1308332021-10-15
Race is on to reach net zero emissions and halt runaway nature loss
Even if we eliminate all fossil fuel use there is strong evidence that we will not be able to limit global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Simply stated, without nature we are not going to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement. Thirty percent of emission reduction can only co ...
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#1316722021-11-15
Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out
As weary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday, few realised what a mountain they still had to climb. The Cop26 climate talks were long past their official deadline of 6pm on Friday, but there were strong hopes that the big issues had been settled ...
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#1289442021-05-31
Relocating Climate-Stricken Species Is a Very Tricky Business
Conservationists, ecologist Mark Schwartz wrote nearly three decades ago, faced a looming conundrum: Many species would likely be unable to keep up with the projected pace of climate change and could face extinction as a result.
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#1281732021-04-22
Remarks by Ambassador Zhang Jun at the High Level Event: Raising Ambition for Nature
Protecting nature concerns the future of mankind. Building a beautiful home is a dream shared by all people. The COVID-19 pandemic tells us that man and nature are in one community. It is imperative that the international community uphold multilateralism, strengthen solidarity and cooperation, a ...
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#1307622021-10-13
Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the United Nations COP-15 Part 1 Biodiversity Conference High-Level Segment: “Aligning Finance and Building Capacity for an Ecological Civilization”
Biodiversity is a global public good. We at the World Bank Group believe it's also a key development issue. Our research estimates that Low-Income Countries could forego around 10 percent of their GDP annually by 2030 if select ecosystem services, such as those of forests, fisheries and pollinat ...
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#1308122021-10-14
Restoring Biodiversity Loss And Creating Sustainable Food Systems Will Require More Than China’s $230 Billion Pledge
China’s commitment to establish a $230 billion fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries falls short of what experts believe is required to revert losses and ensure sustainable food production.
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#1309172021-10-18
Revival of rare species reflects China’s biodiversity conservation
China has made great strides in protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity in the past decades. Cases of population restoration of species such as giant pandas, Asian elephants, and snow leopards are familiar to people around the world. However, there are still many stories of rare ...
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#1313542021-11-01
Rwanda: Kagame Challenges World Leaders on Tackling Climate Change
"This year's G20 is an opportunity to recall that pledge. We need a delivery plan. The world's largest economies contribute almost 80 per cent of worldwide emissions," he said.
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#1308572021-10-15
Save biodiversity, save ourselves
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is underway in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Due to human activities and climate change, much of the world's wildlife has been lost, and some rare species are facing extinction. I ...
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#1308012021-10-14
Saving Mother Earth demands stronger global teamwork
The city of Kunming in southwest China, hailed by many as one of the world's most biologically diversified places, is in the global spotlight for hosting the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).
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#1350112022-06-21
Second part of COP15 meeting relocates to Montreal in December
The second part of the COP15 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity will be relocated to Montreal, Canada, from December 5 to 17, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment confirmed on Tuesday.
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#1308142021-10-14
Significant Achievements Made by China in Biodiversity
The population of giant pandas in the wild has grown from 1,114 to 1,864 over the past four decades, while the Asian elephant population in the wild has grown from 180 in the 1980s to about 300 at present in China, according to the latest figures released in a govermental white paper on October ...
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#1188312018-11-07
Sisi welcomes hosting Biological Diversity Conf. in Sharm El Sheikh Tuesday
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi welcomed Egypt's hosting of the COP 14 - Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Tuesday.
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#1316232021-11-11
Summit Seen Going to Overtime With Talks Tricky: COP26 Update
Delegates are starting to make plans for COP26 to run beyond its scheduled end on Friday evening, but Covid-related travel restrictions raise the stakes for quick action.
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#1314402021-11-03
Tackling climate change: how will the world pay for it?
As we've been reporting, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said developed governments are going to meet their six-year-old promise to send $100 billion (£73bn) a year to developing countries to tackle climate change by 2023, three years behind target.
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#1313172021-10-29
The Amazon is still burning. Can UN summit in Glasgow address such climate failures?
By all measures, Giovane Garrido Mendonça should be a logger. His father and grandfather and great-grandfather all made their livings felling thick trees deep in the Brazilian Amazon. As a child, Mendonça often tagged along, proudly toting his father's chainsaw.
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#1308592021-10-15
The Amazon’s biodiversity: The real winning lottery ticket
When Brazil’s then president Luis da Silva announced the discovery of major oil deposits in 2008, he described it as the ‘winning lottery ticket’. As the current incumbent attends the COP15 meeting on biodiversity, the real winning ticket and the key to securing the country’s economic and enviro ...
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#1322472021-12-21
The Biodiversity Crisis Needs Its Net Zero Moment
October 2021 was an important month for crisis meetings. There was the big one, COP26, where decisionmakers descended on Glasgow to spend two frenetic weeks figuring out how to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius. But earlier ...
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#1346702022-05-24
The COP15 global biodiversity summit must deliver for wildlife and people
More than ever, in a global cost of living crisis, delivering for nature requires social and economic justice. Labour has always been clear on this principle.
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#1316782021-11-15
The Elders deplore dereliction of leadership, as COP26 gives leaders twelve months to take more decisive action on climate crisis
Following the conclusion of COP26 in Glasgow, The Elders express their deep disappointment that world leaders have not yet had the courage to head off the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
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#1307932021-10-14
The Most Important Global Meeting You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Is Now
Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse that scientists say could equal climate change as an existential crisis.
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#1278252021-03-29
The Three Major Cop Climate Conventions You Didn’t Know Were Taking Place In 2021
Most people are aware that this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, is being held in November in the city of Glasgow, after it was postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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#1308652021-10-15
The first part of the COP15 biodiversity ends
The first part of the COP15 biodiversity ends Friday, with the China's desired will to carry out international negotiations to better protect nature and some funding commitments. Source: https://pressfrom.info/ca/news/canada/-454907-the-first-part-of-the-cop15-biodiversity-ends.html
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#1307992021-10-14
The five biggest threats to our natural world … and how we can stop them
The world’s wildlife populations have plummeted by more than two-thirds since 1970 – and there are no signs that this downward trend is slowing. The first phase of Cop15 talks in Kunming this week will lay the groundwork for governments to draw up a global agreement next year to halt the loss of ...
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#1312952021-10-29
These 4 charts explain why the stakes are so high at the U.N. climate summit
Leaders from around the world are gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, to hammer out new pledges to fight climate change. The stakes are high. Scientists warn that heat-trapping emissions must fall dramatically by 2030. Otherwise, the world faces more extreme hurricanes, floods and droughts, likely d ...
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#1345722022-05-19
Thiaw, Côte d’Ivoire to present key outcomes of COP15
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Conference to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ibrahim Thiaw, and a high-level representative of Côte d’Ivoire, will at a conference on Friday, May 20, 2022, present the outcomes of the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UNCCD ta ...
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#1343222022-05-10
Time is now to future proof the land, world leaders say at Abidjan Summit
Heads of State and Government meeting at the United Nations’ global conference on land have called on the international community to take urgent action to stem the loss of life and livelihoods that communities all over the world are experiencing due to the increasing and devastating impacts of d ...
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#1317402021-11-16
To limit future flooding in Sydney, COP26 pledges need action
It's easy to get lost in the numbers from COP26. For two weeks, world leaders gathered to discuss emissions reduction targets for the next five years.
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#1308042021-10-14
Together for greater harmony between man and nature
Zhang Xueliang, a ranger at Xiling Snow Mountain— a giant panda habitat some 110 kilometres from Chengdu, capital of China’s southwest province of Sichuan — returned home after a routine patrol. He looked through the photos of wild giant pandas captured on infrared cameras: one strolling near a ...
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#1230552019-11-19
Towards a global biodiversity accord
The 2015 Paris climate agreement was made possible when countries realised it was in their own interest to commit to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. But a similar understanding of the need for stronger conservation policies has yet to take hold, putting the world’s ecosystems increasing ...
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#1306602021-10-11
Traffic Urges Crucial High-level Commitments As CoP15 Begins
As participants convene at the first part of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming, China, TRAFFIC calls for high-level commitments from governments and other parties ahead of the adoption of the post-2020 Global ...
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#1314232021-11-02
Trudeau takes carbon pricing debate to the global stage at COP26
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed the world to have 60 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions covered by a price on pollution in 2030, during a speech at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow on Tuesday.
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#1312272021-10-27
U.N. biodiversity chief urges COP26 climate talks to prioritise nature
Any new pledges made at the upcoming COP26 climate summit must include protection and restoration of natural areas, said the U.N. biodiversity chief - a move that could give a boost to ongoing efforts to broker a separate global nature pact.
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#1308852021-10-15
U.N. biodiversity talks end in China’s Kunming with new funding pledges
KUNMING, China (Reuters) – China, the European Union and Japan were among countries pledging to spend more on slowing down rapid species loss at talks this week in China to prepare for a new global biodiversity pact.
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#1306512021-10-11
U.N. urges nations to spend more on species protection as new pact talks begin
The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday on the eve of a new round of global biodiversity talks
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#1308402021-10-15
UK artist’s work in Kunming sends nature protection message at COP15
As government officials from around the world hold talks at the UN biodiversity conference COP15 in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, a new art installation, Nature and the City, set up in the city's planning museum, is reminding the public that everyone can do their part to protect na ...
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#1350092022-06-21
UK takes lead to seek global action on nature at COP15 biodiversity conference
The UK will lead ambitious calls to protect nature at a UN meeting to agree global biodiversity targets in Nairobi this week - in line with UK’s domestic leadership through its Environment Act.
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#1300312021-08-18
UN Announces Delay of Biodiversity Summit—But World Must Step Up Momentum on Protecting Nature
Following the first draft of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), officials announced today new dates for the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).
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#1307732021-10-13
UN Biodiversity Conference: CGTN talks with British Ambassador to China
On the sidelines of the COP15 UN Convention on Biodiversity, our reporter Meng Qingsheng sat down with Caroline Wilson, British Ambassador to China. The diplomat shared her insights on global biodiversity protection and coping with climate change.
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#1306402021-10-11
UN Biodiversity Conference: Conservation icon Jane Goodall on her hopes for Earth
International efforts to turn around man's destruction of the environment are due in part to conservationists – among them, the world's leading primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall.
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#1307682021-10-13
UN Biodiversity Conference: Former head of Intl. Union for Conservation of Nature assesses global efforts
The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's largest agency for the protection of biodiversity and natural resources. Its "red list" keeps track of threatened species and their conservation status. Our reporter Zhou Jiaxin spoke with Zhang Xinsheng, who recently stepped down ...
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#1306822021-10-12
UN CBD secretariat hails China's efforts in biodiversity
An official from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has hailed China's efforts to preserve biodiversity over the years. The Deputy Executive Secretary of the CBD David Cooper said the upcoming Kunming Declaration can create more clarity on commitments to biodiversity.
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#1189092018-12-06
UN Environment:Worlds Protected Areas Increase
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (Nov. 19, 2018)…. Up to 15 percent of terrestrial and seven percent of marine areas are now designated as protected areas, a report released by the UN Environment says.
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#1306422021-10-11
UN Warns of Irreversible Destruction of Nature
Business executives have cautioned that world governments must do more to avoid environmental degradation ahead of a conference in China aimed at drafting a draft UN biodiversity accord.
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#1188942018-12-06
UN aims to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Targets before 2020
The members of the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity agreed Thursday to boost the process to fulfill the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which expire in 2020.
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#1308752021-10-15
UN biodiversity Conference: Biodiversity is our future
The first part of the UN Biodiversity Conference wraps up today. It will be followed by final negotiations on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework during face-to-face meetings in Kunming, China, in April 2022. This global biodiversity framework will provide a strategic vision and global r ...
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#1307952021-10-14
UN biodiversity chief says China critical to setting global framework
"It will be critical to see China's leadership in galvanizing countries globally to really accept an action-oriented post-2020 global biodiversity framework," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, during the COP15 meeting in Kunming, southwes ...
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#1306292021-10-11
UN biodiversity chief says world has reached ‘moment of truth’ on conservation
The world has now reached “a moment of truth” when it comes to protecting its vital ecosystems, U.N. biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said on Monday as talks on a new global conservation treaty got underway in Kunming, China.