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#1311142021-10-25
Why nations should step up efforts to secure biodiversity
The UN Convention on biological diversity was adopted nearly 30 years ago and is a key universal instrument of international law that unites countries and multilateral organisations in a bid to conserve nature and promote sustainable use of our planet’s resources.
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#1305502021-09-23
FEATURED: Tracking Rwanda’s progress towards biodiversity conservation targets
Rwanda made remarkable achievements in biodiversity conservation from 2016 to 2020 according to the 6th report on the status of implementing the ‘Biological Diversity Convention’.
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#1283792021-04-30
Redirect harmful subsidies to benefit the planet, UN urges governments
Billions of pounds of environmentally harmful government subsidies must be redirected to benefit nature, the United Nation’s biodiversity chief has said, before the restart of negotiations on an international agreement to set new targets for protecting nature
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#1281152021-04-21
Webinar urges common efforts to care for biodiversity
VATICAN: In partnership with the Vatican Covid-19 Commission Ecology Taskforce, the Dicastery for Integral Human Development on Tuesday hosted a webinar on Biodiversity, inspired by Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato si’.The online event, titled “The Road to COP15,” aims to share wisdom, understan ...
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#1281132021-04-20
OPINION: Nature will help drive a better, faster COVID-19 recovery
In recent decades, deforestation, biodiversity loss and pollution have destroyed the natural capital on which we rely, helping to accelerate climate change and putting us at greater risk from its impacts.
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#1280482021-04-14
On the brink of extinction
One million of the eight million global animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, says director for environment Sandeep Singh.
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#1280322021-04-12
Time for governments to take biodiversity loss as seriously as climate change
Together with climate change, the world is also facing a biodiversity crisis, which has failed to capture the same attention. But efforts made by governments to tackle the climate crisis show that action is possible when there is sufficient political will, writes Janice Weatherley-Singh ahead of ...
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#1275072021-03-04
EU Commission seeks global coalition to protect biodiversity
On the occasion of the World Wildlife Day, the European Commission reiterated its invitation on March 3 to all world institutions to raise their voices to build the momentum for nature and help convince more governments to be ambitious at the crucial Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Pa ...
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#1264872020-12-29
The importance of biodiversity for our own safety
Habitat loss and overexploitation, driven by our rapid population growth and unsustainable consumption patterns, are the primary causes of biodiversity loss which is now happening up to ten thousand times faster than for millions of years before.
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#1261022020-12-09
Egypt initiative to integrate Rio conventions is imperative: Environment Minister
Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has highlighted the importance of the initiative set out by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to achieve integration between the three Rio conventions.
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#1255282020-11-03
‘Implementation should begin immediately’: Elizabeth Mrema on a global deal for biodiversity
On the face of it, global efforts to prevent the extinction of one million species are not progressing well. Out of 20 targets agreed by governments in 2010, none were met, and this year’s much hyped “super year for nature” has been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with all global negotiations stalled.
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#1240792020-02-05
Five takeaways from the UN’s proposals to protect biodiversity
Dubbed by some “the other COP”, UN negotiations over biodiversity targets and a new international framework for nature restoration and conservation have not had the same media or political profile as those on climate change.
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#1238232020-01-20
Oceans, biodiversity, deforestation: what's on the climate agenda for 2020?
World leaders and business chiefs meeting in Davos this week will be confronted for the first time with an agenda on which the climate and ecological crises take top billing.
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#1237452020-01-16
To save biodiversity, MEPs call for binding targets at global and EU level
MEPs want the upcoming global biodiversity conference COP 15 to agree on legally binding targets, as was the case for the Paris agreement on climate change. Parliament adopted its position in view of the 2020 UN biodiversity conference (COP 15), in Kunming (China) in October by show of hands.
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#1237462020-01-16
Safeguarding biodiversity is not just an environmentalist issue
In less than one year, delegates from around the world will gather in Kunming, China, to complete a new global agreement for protecting and conserving the world’s natural systems. To succeed, they must bring together not just environmentalists, but also officials with the clout to effect change ...
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#1236632020-01-13
UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction
Almost a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by the end of the decade to stop and reverse biodiversity decline that risks the survival of humanity, according to a draft Paris-style UN agreement on nature.
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#1236932020-01-13
UN Convention on Biodiversity Proposes Protection of at Least 30 Percent of the Planet by 2030
Today, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity released its ‘zero draft’ text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Featured in the text is a target to protect at least 30% of the planet — land and sea — by 2030.
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#1233062019-12-06
Changing behaviour towards nature to keep biodiversity
As far as I've remember, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasised the importance of giving priority to considering biodiversity issues when making decisions in all sectors. Biodiversity must be the basis for establishing other goals, not an idea that comes up after other goals have bee ...
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#1233162019-12-06
Biodiversity in 2020: the biggest threats and opportunities
What are the biggest emerging opportunities and threats the coming year holds for efforts to conserve biodiversity? Nearly two dozen scientists, conservation professionals and future scanners recently came together to answer that question as part of an annual “horizon scan” led by Cambridge Univ ...
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#1230282019-11-18
JICA Supports Biodiversity Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution Workshop in Sikkim
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) supported one and a half-day workshop on "Challenges for Biodiversity Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflicts – Identifying the problems and possible solutions” held in Sikkim. The states with JICA-supported forestry projects, MoEFCC officials, ...
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#1230172019-11-15
FAO publishes voluntary guidelines to assure resilience to crop loss
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations recently published new guidelines aimed at assuring crop diversity and farmers’ resilience to plant genetic resource loss. Called the Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Farmers’ Varieties/Landraces, t ...
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#1229082019-11-07
Toward a Global Biodiversity Accord
The 2015 Paris climate agreement was made possible when countries realized 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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#1228812019-11-06
ACB hails leaders’ commitment to environment, climate action in ASEAN Summit
The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) commended the renewed commitment of the leaders of the ASEAN Member States (AMS) to environmental protection and climate action during the 35th ASEAN Summit and related summits held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 3 November 2019.
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#1228822019-11-06
Tackling an emerging biodiversity threat
We must applaud the government for finally allocating a handsome sum in funding for biodiversity and conservation efforts next year. The RM48 million in funding is timely, thanks to our big mammal friends like tigers and tapirs that made the news headlines due to the dire state of their natural ...
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#1228912019-11-06
Can tokenization and other fintech initiatives help save the planet’s biodiversity?
Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance (SDFA) – a non-profit organisation with a high-level Advisory Board co-chaired by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP and Ant Financial Services Group – has launched its “Fintech for Biodiversity Challenge” to identify fintech companies across the globe ...