‘Nature is in crisis right now’: UK’s biodiversity loss highlighted in ‘damning’ government report
4 years, 2 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 investment in conservation amounted to a real-terms fall of 33 per cent in just five years. He said: “Perhaps most damningly, the new report shows that public sector investment in biodiversity conservation has fallen by 33 per cent in the last five years. This is why the RSPB’s campaign Revive our World is calling for legally binding targets to restore nature by 2030 and for a green recovery from the pandemic across the UK.” The report highlights that only a small proportion of people are engaging with the loss of habitats and species in the UK, with just 11 per cent of people surveyed saying they were “highly engaged with biodiversity loss”. Less than half of this week’s announced overspend on HS2.” She added: “If this government is serious about its ambitions to leave the environment in a better state for future generations and about demonstrating leadership on an international stage, investment and action need to dramatically improve and the Environment Bill needs to be brought back to Parliament at the earliest opportunity.” A Defra spokesperson told The Independent: “Today’s statistics highlight some positive signs for our environment and wildlife, such as the contribution of UK forests to mitigating climate change and the increase in many of our bat populations.

Environment Nature Climate Independent Investment Biodiversity Funding Report Cent Bill Biodiversity Loss Legally Binding Targets  independent  right  highlighted  report  damning  cent  uks  biodiversity  environment  uk  investment  crisis  loss  nature  climate  funding

History of this topic

Call for nexus approach as climate change, biodiversity loss interlinked
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Call for nexus approach as climate change, biodiversity loss interlinked

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: 2024 has been a year of extremes. “Without integrated action, we risk making matters worse.” The report examines five key crises—climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, and health risks—and illustrates how these issues amplify one another. It is estimated that the unaccounted-for costs of current approaches to economic activity – reflecting impacts on biodiversity, water, health and …

Lack of focus on nature and farming solutions at climate summit, say campaigners
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Lack of focus on nature and farming solutions at climate summit, say campaigners

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 letter co-ordinated by Nature4Climate said an agreement that does not adequately recognise nature’s role in climate action “risks …

Warning of ‘monumental gap’ between farming budget and what is needed for nature
2 months, 1 week ago

Warning of ‘monumental gap’ between farming budget and what is needed for 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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ …

Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find
2 months, 1 week ago

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

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ …

The link between biodiversity and climate change : Consider This from NPR : NPR
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …

To save nature, world leaders aim to turn words into action at biodiversity summit
2 months, 3 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
2 months, 3 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 …

Global wildlife population declines by nearly three-quarters in half a century
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Global wildlife population declines by nearly three-quarters in half a century

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 Nature is in “free fall” as a result of human activity, with global wildlife populations …

UK at risk of missing legally binding target to protect biodiversity – report
4 months, 1 week ago

UK at risk of missing legally binding target to protect biodiversity – 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. Read our privacy policy The UK is at risk of missing its legally binding target to protect biodiversity and …

Mass extinction is a choice. A new study shows how we can dramatically reverse it
6 months, 1 week 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 …

Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets final approval as bloc gives the green light
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets final approval as bloc gives the green light

The Hindu  

European Union countries on June 17 gave final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc. After surviving a razor-thin vote by lawmakers last summer, the so-called Nature Restoration Plan faced opposition from several member states for months amid relentless farmers’ protests that contributed to leave the bill in a deadlock. The Nature …

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: report
8 months, 1 week ago

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: report

The Hindu  

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-century, a new research has found. “By including all world regions in our model, we were able to fill many blind spots and address criticism of other approaches working with fragmented and potentially biased data,” said Henrique Pereira, research group head at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity …

Conservation efforts are working to save species and protect biodiversity, study finds
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Conservation efforts are working to save species and protect biodiversity, 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. A group of researchers spent about a decade analysing 665 conservation trials and 186 reports on projects to preserve …

Labour and trade union lash out at Government pledge to boost environmentalism
1 year, 1 month ago

Labour and trade union lash out at Government pledge to boost environmentalism

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 Government’s environmental package aims to “connect the public with the natural world” by improving access to green space …

Climate change threatens UK’s food, security and energy, says Government report
1 year, 5 months ago

Climate change threatens UK’s food, security and energy, says Government report

The Telegraph  

Climate change threatens Britain’s national security, food and energy supplies, a Government report has warned. The Government said this year’s plan marked a step-change in its approach to adapting buildings, supply chains and critical national infrastructure to climate change. ‘Disappointed’ “We are disappointed that the Government hasn’t used this opportunity to go further to build the UK’s resilience to climate …

Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity
1 year, 9 months ago

Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity

Hindustan Times  

The natural world is a source of beauty and wonder, but it also provides humans with essential services. One step towards avoiding yet more disappointment is to emphasise the close link between preserving biodiversity and the widely held goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions. For example, Joe Biden’s chief piece of climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, contains about $400bn …

Sir David Attenborough urges people to unite to save ‘nature in crisis’
1 year, 9 months ago

Sir David Attenborough urges people to unite to save ‘nature in crisis’

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 Veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has warned that “nature is in crisis” as he urged …

Stanley Johnson: To save Britain’s wildlife, MPs must kill the Brexit Bill
1 year, 11 months ago

Stanley Johnson: To save Britain’s wildlife, MPs must kill the Brexit Bill

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And while global …

COP15 was a success — here’s what needs to happen next
2 years ago

COP15 was a success — here’s what needs to happen next

Al Jazeera  

The historic global agreement at the UN conference to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is just the start. The COP15 agreement in Montreal, Canada, on a Global Biodiversity Framework earlier this month commits countries to implementing and funding ambitious global targets and national plans that can halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity, and put us on course …

Explained | A new global biodiversity framework
2 years ago

Explained | A new global biodiversity framework

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations agreement to conserve and sustainably use earth’s biodiversity, got a boost at a conference held in Montreal recently, when 188 of 196 member governments agreed on a new framework to halt the sharp and steady loss of biological species. It sets out targets for 2030 on protection for …

DC Edit | Biodiversity pact: A good start
2 years 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 …

India pushes for new biodiversity fund
2 years ago

India pushes for new biodiversity fund

The Hindu  

There is an urgent need to create a new and dedicated fund to help developing countries successfully implement a post-2020 global framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, India has said at the U.N. biodiversity conference in Canada's Montreal. It has also said that conservation of biodiversity must also be based on 'Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities' as …

UN summit: Don’t repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn
2 years, 1 month 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 …

Governments gather in Canada in bid to boost biodiversity
2 years, 1 month ago

Governments gather in Canada in bid to boost biodiversity

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Amid warnings that biodiversity is in freefall, environmental leaders will gather in Montreal to hammer out measures aimed at shoring up the world’s land and marine ecosystems and coming up with tens of billions of dollars to fund these conservation efforts. “The current state of biodiversity is dire with the loss of biodiversity at unprecedented levels in our …

Scientists warn U.N. summit to ‘avoid trade-offs’ between people and conservation needs
2 years, 1 month 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 …

UK risks ‘major embarrassment on global stage’ at UN biodiversity summit
2 years, 1 month ago

UK risks ‘major embarrassment on global stage’ at UN biodiversity summit

The Independent  

The government is risking “major embarrassment on the world stage” at the UN’s forthcoming biodiversity summit when it kicks off in Montreal, Canada, next week, campaigners have warned. Despite being one of the world’s most ecologically bereft countries, the UK government is risking scrapping “over a thousand” laws that protect the environment, including those which protect wild places and wildlife, …

Government criticised for ‘dismal failure to keep climate promises’
2 years, 1 month ago

Government criticised for ‘dismal failure to keep climate promises’

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 Trusts also warn that the Retained EU Law Bill threatens over a thousand pre-Brexit laws that protect the …

Drastic measures needed to protect biodiversity: Dutch environmental assessment agency
2 years, 1 month 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. …

Global wildlife populations plummet since 1970
2 years, 2 months ago

Global wildlife populations plummet since 1970

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. “If wildlife and nature can’t survive then neither can we.” The UK government needs to set out plans to …

Government proposals part of ‘millennia-long trend of encroaching on nature’
2 years, 3 months ago

Government proposals part of ‘millennia-long trend of encroaching on nature’

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. Sir Partha Dasgupta said he wasn’t surprised by government proposals to repeal European environment laws, liberalise planning processes in …

Government launched ‘attack on nature’ with mini-budget, conservationists warn
2 years, 3 months ago

Government launched ‘attack on nature’ with mini-budget, conservationists warn

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “What the Government has proposed in today’s mini-budget on top of yesterday’s announcements potentially …

UN gathering gears up for push to save planet’s biodiversity
2 years, 9 months 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 …

Adapt or die: Climate impacts for the UK and how we can cope with them
2 years, 10 months ago

Adapt or die: Climate impacts for the UK and how we can cope with them

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 The UK is already feeling the effects of climate change, and the impacts will worsen …

UK wildlife campaigners call for legal right for everyone to have access to nature
2 years, 10 months ago

UK wildlife campaigners call for legal right for everyone to have access to nature

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 60 nature, planning, health and equality organisations are on board, and want the government to ensure that …

Rewilding: Organisations which own a third of England’s land sign pact to boost biodiversity and tackle climate crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Rewilding: Organisations which own a third of England’s land sign pact to boost biodiversity and tackle climate crisis

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 A swathe of England’s biggest land owners and managers have signed a joint pact committing …

Mass extinctions of plants and animals unavoidable without halting climate crisis, warns head of Natural England
3 years, 2 months ago

Mass extinctions of plants and animals unavoidable without halting climate crisis, warns head of Natural England

The Independent  

The key focus at the Cop26 climate summit will be on slashing the fossil fuel dependency poisoning our atmosphere and heating up the planet, but it is not just cutting emissions that will get us to net zero by 2050, it is also the restoration of the natural world. Although he readily acknowledges the scale of the challenge at Glasgow, …

Mobilize finance for climate, biodiversity
3 years, 2 months ago

Mobilize finance for climate, biodiversity

China Daily  

Conserving biological diversity and combating climate change are vital to the global economic value and prosperity of human beings. The deep link between climate change and biodiversity loss means that coordinated and concerted international efforts, rather than independent efforts, should be made to keep global temperature rise below to 1.5 C. In fact, combating climate change has become a global …

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

Tories making Britain greener than before Industrial Revolution, says Natural England boss
3 years, 4 months ago

Tories making Britain greener than before Industrial Revolution, says Natural England boss

The Telegraph  

Boris Johnson’s government is reversing the decline of nature in the UK for the first time since the Industrial Revolution and will set Britain on a path to becoming “nature positive” by 2050, the head of Natural England has said. Tony Juniper, a former Friends of the Earth campaigner and lifelong environmentalist, said he had “never seen this level of …

Find ways to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together, says UN report
3 years, 6 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, 6 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. …

How to Protect Species and Save the Planet—at Once
3 years, 6 months ago

How to Protect Species and Save the Planet—at Once

Wired  

Humanity is struggling to contain two compounding crises: skyrocketing global temperatures and plummeting biodiversity. The report is the product of a four-day virtual workshop attended by researchers of all stripes, and is a collaboration between the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In light of the Paris Agreement, it’s …

Royal family should rewild their estates and lead recovery of natural world in Britain, campaigners say
3 years, 6 months ago

Royal family should rewild their estates and lead recovery of natural world in Britain, campaigners say

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. TV environmentalists Kate Humble and Chris Packham, broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr …

Climate crisis: UK’s woodlands and peatlands ‘crucial’ to reaching net zero goal, report says
3 years, 8 months ago

Climate crisis: UK’s woodlands and peatlands ‘crucial’ to reaching net zero goal, report says

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 Maintenance of the UK’s native woodlands and peatlands will be “crucial” to realising the goal …

World must ‘transform relationship with nature’ to tackle environmental crises, says UN
3 years, 10 months ago

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

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The world must …

Human growth in recent decades came at 'devastating cost' to nature, planet's economic role: Review
3 years, 11 months ago

Human growth in recent decades came at 'devastating cost' to nature, planet's economic role: Review

Firstpost  

Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a ‘devastating cost to nature’ according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. “While humanity has prospered immensely in recent decades, the ways in which we have achieved such prosperity means that it has come at a devastating cost to nature,” the review said. …

UK will get new national parks as part of government’s 25-year Environment Plan
4 years, 1 month ago

UK will get new national parks as part of government’s 25-year Environment Plan

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 The UK is set to get a number of new national parks and Areas of …

Half of all nature reserves not in a healthy state, report reveals
4 years, 2 months ago

Half of all nature reserves not in a healthy state, report reveals

The Telegraph  

Half of England’s nature reserves are not in a healthy state, a damning report by a government-commissioned body has found, as they warn that most climate targets have been missed. Natural assets including soils, land, plants and wildlife are in serious decline despite Government targets to improve the environment in a generation, according to the Natural Capital Committee. The report …

David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
4 years, 3 months ago

David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature

Hindustan Times  

British broadcaster David Attenborough led a call from conservation groups on Wednesday for the world to invest $500 billion a year to halt the destruction of nature, warning that the future of the planet was in “grave jeopardy”. Attenborough, whose new film “A Life on Our Planet” documents the dangers posed by climate change and the extinction of species, issued …

Discover Related