UN summit: Don’t repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn
2 years, 3 months ago

UN summit: Don’t repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn

Associated Press  

MOMBASA, Kenya — Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to “avoid trade-offs” between people and conservation needs in a report Monday. The study published in the One Earth Journal found that even though there has been an increase in investment in conservation over the last three decades governments “have not succeeded in bending the curve on biodiversity decline.” The conference known as COP15, which begins Tuesday, hopes to set the goals for the world for the next decade to help conserve the planet’s biodiversity and stem the loss of nature. “No amount of conservation or restoration actions may be effective in stopping biodiversity loss if the accelerating drivers of decline continue and intensify, as has been the case to date, especially in wealthier countries and among elites, who often express commitment to conservation action,” said David Obura, who is one of the report authors and director of Coastal Oceans Research and Development for east Africa. “Much of the conversation in Montreal is likely to revolve around money and specifically how much of it wealthier countries are willing to make available to support the conservation efforts of emerging economies.” Indigenous rights groups led by Survival International and Amnesty International agreed that local communities were central to protecting local biodiversity.

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UN chief calls for more pledges, private sector input to save global biodiversity at Colombia summit
5 months ago

UN chief calls for more pledges, private sector input to save global biodiversity at Colombia summit

The Independent  

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Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find
5 months ago

Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find

The Independent  

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The link between biodiversity and climate change : Consider This from NPR : NPR
5 months, 1 week ago

The link between biodiversity and climate change : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change? Enlarge this image toggle caption LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images Some of the worst effects of climate change have been on display in recent weeks. This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity …

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity
5 months, 1 week ago

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

The Independent  

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To save nature, world leaders aim to turn words into action at biodiversity summit
5 months, 2 weeks ago

To save nature, world leaders aim to turn words into action at biodiversity summit

NPR  

To save nature, world leaders aim to turn words into action at biodiversity summit toggle caption Ivan Valencia/AP Two years ago, nearly every country on Earth signed on to a landmark agreement to protect the fast-eroding natural world. It was celebrated as the “Paris moment” for the world’s threatened and endangered plants, animals and ecosystems — a global pledge aimed …

Climate change solutions not always good for biodiversity
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change solutions not always good for biodiversity

Raw Story  

Some approaches to tackling global warming can have unintended knock-on consequences for nature and the protection of biodiversity, say scientists urging a more coordinated effort on these challenges. The IPBES and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in 2021 that a siloed approach risked "actions which, inadvertently, prevent the resolution of one or the other problem, or even …

Plan to displace 300 million Indigenous people to be discussed at Joe Biden’s virtual summit
8 months ago

Plan to displace 300 million Indigenous people to be discussed at Joe Biden’s virtual summit

The Independent  

A plan that could reduce 300 million people to landless poverty is expected to be discussed at President Biden’s virtual Leaders’ Summit on Climate this week, and to be agreed at the COP15 summit in China in October. In an attempt to bring the rapid loss of biodiversity around the globe to an end, member states of the Convention on …

Mass extinction is a choice. A new study shows how we can dramatically reverse it
9 months ago

Mass extinction is a choice. A new study shows how we can dramatically reverse it

Salon  

Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity — which is anything but natural. "Multiple approaches will be required to meet long-term protection goals: providing rights and titles to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities conserving traditional lands, government designation of new protected areas …

Make peace with nature or risk more war, warns UN biodiversity summit chief
10 months ago

Make peace with nature or risk more war, warns UN biodiversity summit chief

India Today  

The world must make peace with nature or risk fueling more global conflicts like the war in Gaza, the president of the upcoming United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit said on Friday. Colombia's Environment Minister, Susana Muhamad, laid out her priorities as COP16 president, along with a warning if the world fails to reform global governance to solve problems like the …

New landmark rules launched for companies to measure and share effect on nature
1 year, 6 months ago

New landmark rules launched for companies to measure and share effect on nature

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scaling up action to restore the resilience of nature …

Biodiversity is us and we are biodiversity
1 year, 10 months ago

Biodiversity is us and we are biodiversity

The Hindu  

The observance of International Biodiversity Day was yet another reminder of the pivotal role our natural world plays in resolving the climate change crisis, which, along with the decline of biodiversity, poses an existential threat to our future. Biodiversity is declining worldwide, and our last remaining, largely isolated ecosystems are degrading due to changes happening around them, such as loss …

United Nations nature deal can help wildlife as long as countries deliver
2 years, 3 months ago

United Nations nature deal can help wildlife as long as countries deliver

Live Mint  

A new conservation deal adopted this week at the U.N. summit in Montreal puts the world on a strong track to halt the rapid decline in nature - but only if wealthy nations deliver enough funding and all countries prioritize conservation. Goals set out in the agreement, known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, include halting species extinctions, conserving 30% …

Historic biodiversity pact inspires, but past failures loom
2 years, 3 months ago

Historic biodiversity pact inspires, but past failures loom

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Countries’ failure to set robust systems in place for …

DC Edit | Biodiversity pact: A good start
2 years, 3 months ago

DC Edit | Biodiversity pact: A good start

Deccan Chronicle  

Humans have moved up at least to the extent of wishing to do something concrete about the nature that they have been destroying for decades, and at great intensity in the industrial age. Nearly 200 nations signing a pact to try and undo the damage to biodiversity, by-product of the massive overall destruction wrought, is a sign that we are …

More than 190 countries sign landmark agreement to halt the biodiversity crisis
2 years, 3 months ago

More than 190 countries sign landmark agreement to halt the biodiversity crisis

CNN  

CNN — More than 190 countries have adopted a sweeping agreement to protect nature at the United Nations’ biodiversity conference in Montreal. “The agreement represents a major milestone for the conservation of our natural world, and biodiversity has never been so high on the political and business agenda,” said Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International. It will have major …

Countries seal deal to protect nature despite DRC objection
2 years, 3 months ago

Countries seal deal to protect nature despite DRC objection

Al Jazeera  

As part of the agreement, countries committed to protect 30 percent of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030. Countries have reached a landmark agreement at a marathon United Nations biodiversity summit to protect the world’s land and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world despite objections from some African countries. “This puts …

United Nations biodiversity conference in final days with many issues unresolved
2 years, 3 months ago

United Nations biodiversity conference in final days with many issues unresolved

Firstpost  

The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, is set to wrap up Monday in Montreal and delegates were racing to agree on language in a framework that calls for protecting 30 per cent of global land and marine areas by 2030, a goal known as ‘30 by 30’ Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved …

Explained | What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

The Hindu  

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia boast more than 131,000 plant species, around 6,000 birds, and nearly 3,000 mammals between them, according to data compiled from the International Union for the Conservation of …

World Insights: UN officials call for building consensus on biodiversity blueprint at COP15 meeting
2 years, 3 months ago

World Insights: UN officials call for building consensus on biodiversity blueprint at COP15 meeting

China Daily  

Photo taken on Sept 28, 2021 shows corals on the seabed in the waters of Fenjiezhou Island of Hainan province, South China. UN officials on Thursday called for more consensus on reaching a post-2020 global biodiversity framework as a ministerial-level negotiation of the ongoing UN biodiversity conference started here. United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed urged all parties to agree …

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN

Al Jazeera  

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the COP15 talks on biodiversity must stop humanity from ‘committing suicide by proxy’. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a …

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN

Al Jazeera  

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the COP15 talks on biodiversity must stop humanity from ‘committing suicide by proxy’. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a …

Scientists warn U.N. summit to ‘avoid trade-offs’ between people and conservation needs
2 years, 3 months ago

Scientists warn U.N. summit to ‘avoid trade-offs’ between people and conservation needs

LA Times  

A Maasai man walks with his livestock in search of grassland for them to graze in Kenya on Nov. 9. Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for a United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to “avoid trade-offs” between people and conservation needs in a …

COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter?
2 years, 3 months ago

COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter?

Al Jazeera  

The United Nations conference aims to lay out a plan to tackle the ‘unsustainable rate’ of global biodiversity loss. “We can no longer continue with a ‘business as usual’ attitude,” said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, urging states to adopt an “ambitious, realistic and implementable” plan. Getting a “strong and ambitious document together” …

Call to deliver global deal for nature amid crisis which threatens humanity
2 years, 3 months ago

Call to deliver global deal for nature amid crisis which threatens humanity

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We rely on nature for everything – from producing food and economic prosperity to regulating our climate Craig Bennett, …

Drastic measures needed to protect biodiversity: Dutch environmental assessment agency
2 years, 4 months ago

Drastic measures needed to protect biodiversity: Dutch environmental assessment agency

NL Times  

The decline of global biodiversity is “persistent” and can only be halted through drastic changes. “With nature policy alone, it will not be possible to achieve the global goals for biodiversity,” the planning office said. While the United Nations climate summit is still underway, the PBL is already looking ahead to the UN summit on biodiversity in Montreal next month. …

‘More action’ needed to avoid mass extinction, says global team of experts
2 years, 8 months ago

‘More action’ needed to avoid mass extinction, says global team of experts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy "Multiple drivers of biodiversity loss" are damaging the world’s ecosystems and more action needs to …

UN gathering gears up for push to save planet’s biodiversity
3 years ago

UN gathering gears up for push to save planet’s biodiversity

Associated Press  

GENEVA — Nearly all the world’s countries kicked off a U.N.-backed meeting Monday aimed at preventing the loss of biodiversity — seen as critical to avoiding the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emergence of pathogens like the coronavirus, and the damage to both lives and livelihoods of people around the world, Indigenous peoples in particular. “We have this one …

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
3 years ago

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report

LA Times  

Felisa Benitez, 86, wipes sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning a standing electrical fan outside her Pacoima home in August. “If we want to have effective climate change policy, we have to look at those human dimensions, and particularly those equity dimensions, and protecting some of the most vulnerable populations,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor …

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns
3 years, 1 month ago

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns

LA Times  

A new United Nations report says climate change poses major threats to people and ecosystems around the world, and warns that effects could be catastrophic if humanity fails to quickly curb planet-heating emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. “The world’s biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.” The report, which was released Monday by the Intergovernmental …

The world’s biodiversity is on the brink. Can a UN summit make a difference?
3 years, 5 months ago

The world’s biodiversity is on the brink. Can a UN summit make a difference?

The Independent  

Statistics on the state of a natural world make for sombre reading. A recent UN report found that almost 90 per cent of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers each year can be considered “harmful” to nature. It is destroying ecosystems.” Andrew Deutz, global policy lead at environmental organisation The Nature Conservancy, agrees that reforming harmful subsidies should …

Rewild and protect land to ensure climate and nature crises are tackled together, scientists urge ahead of Cop26
3 years, 6 months ago

Rewild and protect land to ensure climate and nature crises are tackled together, scientists urge ahead of Cop26

The Independent  

Wild spaces across the world must be restored and protected if the world is to successfully get to grips with the twin climate and nature crises, scientists have said. Ahead of Cop26, the pivotal climate summit taking place in November, researchers called for “major systemic changes” to tackle the world’s mounting environmental challenges. “There’s been growing consensus that the climate …

Find ways to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together, says UN report
3 years, 9 months ago

Find ways to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together, says UN report

Firstpost  

Policy responses to both these problem have long been siloed but they worsen each other and are intertwined. To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and not just one, United Nations scientists said. A joint report Thursday by separate UN scientific bodies that look …

Climate and extinction crises must be tackled together, says United Nations
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate and extinction crises must be tackled together, says United Nations

The Hindu  

To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and not just one, United Nations scientists said. Policy responses to climate change and biodiversity loss have long been siloed, with different government agencies responsible for each, said co-author Pamela McElwee, a human ecologist at Rutgers University. …

World must ‘transform relationship with nature’ to tackle environmental crises, says UN
4 years, 1 month ago

World must ‘transform relationship with nature’ to tackle environmental crises, says UN

The Independent  

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Only multi-pronged plan can stich a "safety net" for the natural world, warns scientists
4 years, 5 months ago

Only multi-pronged plan can stich a "safety net" for the natural world, warns scientists

Firstpost  

The UN warned in a landmark report that human activity had “severely degraded” three-quarters of ice-free land on the planet. From preventing the extinction of lions and polar bears to halting the destruction of life-sustaining primary forests, only a multi-pronged plan can stitch together a “safety net” for the natural world, they argued in a peer-reviewed commentary in Science. Originally …

‘Nature is in crisis right now’: UK’s biodiversity loss highlighted in ‘damning’ government report
4 years, 5 months ago

‘Nature is in crisis right now’: UK’s biodiversity loss highlighted in ‘damning’ government report

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The report also reveals just 0.02% of UK GDP now goes towards funding biodiversity after cuts in public sector …

Rewilding 30 per cent of world’s land would halt extinctions and ‘absorb half of CO2 emissions’, major study finds
4 years, 5 months ago

Rewilding 30 per cent of world’s land would halt extinctions and ‘absorb half of CO2 emissions’, major study finds

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Last month, political leaders from 64 countries around the world all pledged to “reverse biodiversity …

Five takeaways from UN Summit on Biodiversity
4 years, 6 months ago

Five takeaways from UN Summit on Biodiversity

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. More than a million species were at risk of extinction, he said, adding that: 'More than 60 per cent …

Full text of Xi's statement at the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity
4 years, 6 months ago

Full text of Xi's statement at the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity

China Daily  

Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China At the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity Beijing, 30 September 2020 Mr. President, Colleagues, At the special moment as the United Nations marks the 75th anniversary of its founding and countries around the world strive to emerge from COVID-19 and promote high-quality economic recovery, the UN has convened this Summit on …

Biodiversity crisis: US, China, Australia and Brazil refuse to sign pledge to reverse damage to natural world
4 years, 6 months ago

Biodiversity crisis: US, China, Australia and Brazil refuse to sign pledge to reverse damage to natural world

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy While 64 countries have signed a global pledge aimed at halting the catastrophic decline of …

Biodiversity crisis: World leaders pledge to ‘reverse’ destruction of natural world by 2030
4 years, 6 months ago

Biodiversity crisis: World leaders pledge to ‘reverse’ destruction of natural world by 2030

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The interdependent crises of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and climate change - driven in large part by unsustainable …

World fails to hit all targets to halt biodiversity collapse, UN reports
4 years, 6 months ago

World fails to hit all targets to halt biodiversity collapse, UN reports

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “From COVID-19 to massive wildfires, floods, melting glaciers and unprecedented heat, our failure to meet the Aichi targets — …

UN Biodiversity Plan Calls For Protecting 30% Of Earth By 2030
5 years, 2 months ago

UN Biodiversity Plan Calls For Protecting 30% Of Earth By 2030

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING To reverse the rapid loss of species around the globe, world governments should protect nearly one-third of all lands and oceans and slash major sources of pollution by the end of the decade, according to a new United Nations proposal. In a 2017 report, U.N. Special Rapporteur John Knox, a human rights expert and professor of international …

UN holds first global study of nature and human race: 100,000 species on path to extinction
5 years, 11 months ago

UN holds first global study of nature and human race: 100,000 species on path to extinction

Firstpost  

With many species on Earth dying, the UN has released a study that was three years in the making. Hidden impacts “We need to recognise that climate change and loss of Nature are equally important, not just for the environment, but as development and economic issues as well,” Watson said. “But our goal is to make sure that governments and …

The ‘ecological foundations of society’ are in peril, a massive UN report warns
6 years ago

The ‘ecological foundations of society’ are in peril, a massive UN report warns

CNN  

CNN — Human activities are degrading the global environment at a pace that could endanger the “ecological foundations of society” and human health, according to a landmark United Nations report released Wednesday. Addressing climate change is a top priority The authors echo findings from last fall’s UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that, to avoid disastrous levels of global …

Protecting biodiversity with rigour
10 years, 4 months ago

Protecting biodiversity with rigour

The Hindu  

The Prime Minister recently reorganised his National Council on Climate Change and called on an indigenous answer, yoga, to alter consciousness and tackle climate change. The Ministry of Environment and Forests is currently working on the National Democratic Alliance’s position on climate change, with two major United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings coming up. While decisions related directly …

Rescuing biodiversity
14 years, 5 months ago

Rescuing biodiversity

The Hindu  

Homo sapiens may not have been responsible for the five distinct spasms of extinctions in geological time that began an estimated 440 million years ago, but humans are centrally implicated in the ongoing sixth wave of severe biodiversity loss. The member-countries have done well to acknowledge the all-round disappointment that their renewed commitment made in 2002 to reduce biodiversity loss …

U.N. meeting aims to set species-saving goals
14 years, 5 months ago

U.N. meeting aims to set species-saving goals

The Hindu  

An international conference aimed at preserving the planet’s diversity of plants and animals in the face of pollution and habitat loss begins on Monday in Japan, facing some of the same divisions between rich and poor nations that have stalled U.N. climate talks. Seventeen years after the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity was enacted, it has yet to achieve any …

UN: Nature’s diversity fast disappearing, harming life on earth
14 years, 10 months ago

UN: Nature’s diversity fast disappearing, harming life on earth

The Hindu  

The natural systems that support life on earth, from the Amazon forests to coral reefs, are close to the tipping point of collapse because of human activities, a new study on the global biodiversity said on Monday. The third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook confirmed that the world has failed to achieve targets for a significant reduction of the …

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