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#5875Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)
21 - 24 January 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
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#1285422021-05-11
Net Zero debate: Where are Indian states on the decarbonisation pathway
Announcing a timeline for net-zero emissions has been the buzzword in the global climate change debate and India has been under intense pressure to announce it as well. Indian has not followed suit but Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently reiterated the country’s commitment to installing 450 Gi ...
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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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#1328492022-02-01
New Approaches Towards Improving Forest Resistance To Invasive Alien Species
Invasive alien pests and pathogens are a challenge posed in front of forest managers in Europe and around the world. Invasions have a profound impact on forest ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people.
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#1222832019-09-19
New Aussie law aims to help save Great Barrier Reef
Australia introduced stricter new laws to limit agricultural run-off into the waters surrounding the Great Barrier Reef Thursday, in an attempt to save the reef and keep its prized world heritage status.
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#1341912022-04-27
New Zealand unveils plan to tackle climate crisis by adapting cities to survive rising seas
The New Zealand government has released new plans to try to prepare the country for the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis: sea level rise, floods, massive storms and wildfires.
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#1346722022-05-24
New bill seeks to restore biodiversity in UK
Proposed legislation, the Climate and Ecology Bill, which would put in place climate and biodiversity targets, is going to be introduced in the House of Lords tomorrow.
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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.
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#1325332022-01-17
New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s (SFI) updated forest certification standards provide solutions to some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges. Sustainable forest management and the procurement of wood products from sustainably managed sources are critical tools that help av ...
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#1289002021-05-27
New framework to enhance national climate action and achieve global goals
With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight.
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#1290992021-06-07
New global sustainability disclosures board draws heavyweight backing
Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will head an advisory group on setting up a global board for sustainability-related company disclosures, the IFRS Foundation said on Monday.
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#1280912021-04-20
New guideline for pioneering conservation lawsuits to protect wildlife
A pioneering initiative demonstrates how environmental law could help protect threatened species—including from illegal wildlife trade.
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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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#1199662019-02-15
New treaty bans commercial fishing in the Arctic for 16 years
The European Union and nine other countries, including the US and Russia, approved an international agreement on Thursday (14 February) that will prohibit commercial vessels from fishing in the Arctic in order to preserve the region’s fragile ecosystem.
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#1287442021-05-20
New wildlife protection strategy to tackle climate change, natural disasters
Environmental protection is set for a shake-up as the federal government launches a new threatened species strategy in a fresh approach to boosting populations and stopping threatened species disappearing from the planet in the wake of the Black Summer bushfires.
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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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#1225852019-10-09
Nigeria: Govt to Increase Allocation for Biodiversity Preservation
Lagos — Minister of State for Environment Barr Sharon Ikeazor has assured that the federal government will increase budgetary provision for the preservation of the nation's biodiversity.
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#1265202020-12-30
Nigeria: Lagos and Wild Animals As Pets
The proposed law by the Lagos State House of Assembly to prohibit ownership of wild animals as pets is commendable. It is in line with THISDAY editorial of 19th November 2019 which called for a prohibition of the domestication of wild animals, shortly after an adult lion was sighted at the home ...
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#1289952021-06-02
No Deal in Sight for a Green EU Farming Policy
From June 26 to 28, talks over the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) crumbled as Member States rejected the EU Parliament’s weak environmental plan as too green & those on labour rights as too strong, while the EU Commission pretended the new CAP was still in line with the EU Green ...
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#1329932022-02-08
No silver-bullet solutions for saving used planet
With much of the planet already "used-up", the world has hard choices to make over how to use land in the most sustainable and effective way.
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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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#1239732020-01-28
Norway pledges to go green; becomes the first country to ban deforestation
There is one more reason to visit Norway now if you were searching for one. While the Scandinavian nation has always been nature-rich and a stickler to conservation, it is all set to turn greener. Yes, as per a newly-announced move, Norway is now the first country in the world to ban deforestati ...
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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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#1328132022-01-31
Norway’s wolves ‘saved for this year’ as animal rights groups fight cull
Norway has halted a major hunt of wolves after campaigners secured a court injunction. Twenty-five animals, within four packs, are in the “wolf zone”, an area of nature set aside to protect the predators, and these have been given a stay of execution by the courts after campaigners argued wolves ...
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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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#1203982019-03-15
Nova Scotia to become first province to regulate biodiversity
Bill aims to close gaps between Endangered Species Act, Wildlife Act and other legislationThe provincial government is taking the first steps to better protect biodiversity in Nova Scotia. Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin tabled the Biodiversity Act on Thursday. The move is something requ ...
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#1331532022-02-14
ONE OCEAN SUMMIT – An Opportunity For Blue Transformation
The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. There is no question it is critical for our health and well-being. It provides half the earth’s oxygen supply and every organism in existence depends on it to survive.
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#1281682021-04-21
OPINION: Climate crunch time - can Biden summit unlock political will for action?
The Leaders Summit on Climate, a meeting being hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden starting on Thursday, must bring political weight to both a crunch year for climate action and the “decade of delivery” for climate, nature and development.
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#1290442021-06-03
OPINION: To conserve nature, protect human rights
John Knox, a professor at Wake Forest University, was the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2012 to 2018. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, who is a member of the Kankana-ey-Igorot people in the Philippines, was the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples from ...
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#1269092021-02-08
Ocean governance: EU joins the International Coral Reef Initiative to protect marine ecosystems
Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, is representing the EU in the General Assembly of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) which confirmed EU's membership in this global partnership for the conservation of the world's coral reefs. In the context of th ...
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#1328732022-02-02
Ofwat urged to do more to make water firms protect environment
Ofwat must do more to make the water industry in England and Wales protect the environment, the government has said. Setting out the priorities for the regulator for the next five years the environment minister Rebecca Pow said water companies should significantly reduce the frequency and volume ...
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#1325472022-01-17
Old tamarind and neem trees in north Karnataka get biodiversity heritage tag
In an effort to save century-old trees along the Byadagi-Motebennurroad,the Biodiversity Management Committee Byadagi declared the 1.4m stretch a Conservation Habitat of Tamarind & Neem trees Biodiversity Heritage Site.
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#1331492022-02-14
One Ocean Summit: States pledge €4 billion to fight plastic pollution at sea
A total of €4 billion will be allocated to combat plastic pollution, according to the so-called “Brest Commitments” adopted at the end of the One Ocean Summit Friday (11 February), where they also agreed to create a global coalition preserve high seas biodiversity. EURACTIV France reports.
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#1331482022-02-14
One Ocean Summit: new steps strengthen EU leadership in protecting the Ocean
The Commission is presenting today ambitious initiatives to promote a cleaner, healthier and safer ocean, as part of the EU’s contribution to the One Ocean Summit hosted by France in Brest and a demonstration of EU’s leading role in bringing a comprehensive response to oceans challenges.
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#1292362021-06-11
One humanity on one planet: How the G7 can safeguard a resilient future
There is no vaccine against hunger, poverty, climate change or biodiversity loss. But there is a cure and it must be rolled out from the top down: it is called building resilience.
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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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#6470Online discussion of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
7 - 21 February 2024, Online
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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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#1229172019-11-08
Opinion: Wildlife, forest and fisheries crimes
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), each year countless species is driven closer to extinction, while criminals make billions from the sale of protected wildlife and forest products. These crimes have a devastating impact on biodiversity; they undermine national, r ...
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#5871Organizational Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on an International Legally Binding Instrument under UNCLOS on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (UNCLOS)
25 March - 5 April 2019, New York, United States of America
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#1343062022-05-05
Our Ocean Conference Closes with USD 16.35 Billion in Pledges
The seventh Our Ocean Conference generated 410 commitments worth USD 16.35 billion across the issue areas of climate change, sustainable fisheries, sustainable blue economies, marine protected areas, maritime security, and marine pollution.
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#1228142019-10-31
Our environmental laws should be judged by one outcome
On Monday, Environment Minister Sussan Ley launched the long-awaited statutory review of Australia's beleaguered national environment law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Ms Ley has set streamlining regulation as the key test of success for the review.
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#2688COP 11
2012-10-11
PA Governance in India – where do we stand in terms of tenure, relocation, and possibilities of coexistence?
The CBD has had a deep impact on Indian legislation as various rights based acts regarding the use and ownership of biodiversity and forests were born out of the convention and subsequently increased the opportunities for collaborative governance and management of biodiversity rich areas. The ch ...
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#1291232021-06-07
PM ready for ‘environment’ dialogue with opposition parties
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam on Sunday said Prime Minister Imran Khan amid his world-acclaimed green vision of ecological conservation for coming generations, wanted to sign “Charter of Environment” with all political parties.
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#1331642022-02-14
PNG group wants re-think on forest law and management
Papua New Guinea's Centre for Environment Law and Community Rights, or CELCOR, wants police working for logging companies to be sacked from the force.
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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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#1283942021-05-05
Pandemic Or Climate Change, Government Has Crucial Role To Play
It's an oft-repeated warning that poor countries will suffer more from climate change than rich countries. Most developing economies are more dependent on weather-linked sectors, such as agriculture, while having fewer resources to adapt to a warming world.
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#2143Panel Discussion and Book Lunch: Whose Rules of the Game? Bioprospecting and Drug Research in Developing Countries
19 April 2005, New York, United States of America
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#1341922022-04-27
Parched southern California takes unprecedented step of restricting outdoor watering
Southern California officials declared a water shortage emergency Tuesday, and adopted new unprecedented restrictions on outdoor watering that will impact millions of people living in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.
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#1285712021-05-12
Paris climate agreement overlooks wood pellet loophole
With the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, and with governments across the country evaluating how they can cut carbon emissions, a question remains about one contentious "carbon neutral" energy source: Wood pellets.