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#6513Subregional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Central, Southern and Eastern Africa
17 - 20 February 2025, Nairobi, Kenya
Notification
#34502024-10-20
Action by
2024-12-01
Sub-regional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, 17 to 20 February 2025 – Nairobi, Kenya
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JM/91934 (2024-104)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
English
Recommendation
SBI-05#13911
Recommendation 5/1
Review of implementation: progress in national target setting and updating of national biodiversity strategies and action plans
Meeting
#6491Subregional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Latin American countries
9 - 13 June 2024, Punta Leona, Costa Rica
Notification
#33822024-04-19
Action by
2024-05-07
Subregional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Latin American countries, 9 to 13 June 2024 - Costa Rica
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JM/91654 (2024-037)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
English
Meeting
#6473Subregional workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Caribbean countries
18 - 19 April 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
Meeting
#6436Workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Countries in the Pacific Region
22 - 23 March 2024, Nadi, Fiji
Notification
#33712024-03-12
Action by
2024-06-01
Protected Planet Report 2024: Call for submission of data to inform the preparation of the report on progress toward Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/ESE/91587 (2024-026)
To: CBD national focal points, PoWPA focal points, SBSTTA focal points
English
Notification
#33542024-01-25
Action by
2024-02-16
Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF for the Caribbean Countries, 15-19 April 2024 - Georgetown, Guyana
Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91504 (2024-009)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
English
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#6432Meeting
#6431Notification
#33332023-11-28
Action by
2023-12-22
Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF and UNEP Technical Workshop on the GEF Early Action Support Project for the Pacific Countries, 18-26 March 2024 - Nadi, Fiji
Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91406 (2023-125)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
English
Notification
#33272023-11-06
Invitation to join the global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/91356 (2023-119)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
English
Notification
#33252023-11-01
Launch of the online reporting tool for submitting national targets
Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91353 (2023-117)
To: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal points
English
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#6410Meeting
#6409Meeting
#6370Development of a global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
12 - 14 June 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Notification
#32682023-05-29
Selection of participants for the Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership, Cambridge, United Kingdom - 12-14 June 2023
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/90867 (2023-060)
To: CBD focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
English
Notification
#32472023-04-05
Action by
2023-04-30
New dates and call for nominations for a Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership, Cambridge, United Kingdom - 12-14 June 2023
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/VA/90867 (2023-039)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
English
Notification
#32402023-03-23
Postponement of the Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership Cambridge, United Kingdom - 2-4 May 2023
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/VA/90867 (2023-032)
To: CBD Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
English
Notification
#32292023-03-02
Action by
2023-03-17
Call for Nominations for a Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership, Cambridge, United Kingdom - 2-4 May 2023
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/VA/90867 (2023-021)
To: CBD Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
English
News Headlines
#1354462022-07-26
We Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majo ...
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#1353942022-07-20
Scientists identify DNA 'hotspots' that tell zebrafish to change sex in warmer waters
Higher water temperatures induce specific chemical tags at targeted locations on the DNA of embryonic zebrafish. These "epigenetic" changes can then reroute genetic pathways, so that the embryos change sex.
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#1353282022-07-13
Urgent nature action needed to salvage Sustainable Development Goals: UN report
The climate crisis, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine are threatening to stall progress on several key environmental targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), humanity’s blueprint for a better future, warns a new report from the United Nations.
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#1352032022-07-05
Jamaican Climate Leader Says Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Can agroforestry help mitigate climate change and remove CO₂ from our air permanently? In April 2021, Jamaica targeted an ambitious 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The upgraded new goal addressed land use change, forestry emissions, and committing to deeper emission reductions ...
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#1352042022-07-05
Recycling is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff
Plastic Free July has rolled around again and we'll all be hearing about reducing plastic use in our daily lives. Much of the messaging is targeted toward young people through school and youth-focused messaging.
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#1351432022-06-30
Global Biodiversity Framework Talks Achieve “Varying Levels of Progress”
The Open-ended Working Group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), charged by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with developing a “new set of global goals and targets to guide parties towards a nature-positive future,” achieved pr ...
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#1350362022-06-22
EU plan to halve use of pesticides in ‘milestone’ legislation to restore ecosystems
For the first time in 30 years, legislation has been put forward to address catastrophic wildlife loss in the EU. Legally binding targets for all member states to restore wildlife on land, rivers and the sea were announced today, alongside a crackdown on chemical pesticides.
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#1350482022-06-22
Push to halt biodiversity loss with legally binding EU targets
The biodiversity crisis is rising up the political agenda as Brussels pushes ahead with legally binding targets to cut the use of pesticides and improve natural ecosystems, despite objection from farmers who argue that they face “cumulative crises” following coronavirus and the war in Ukraine.
News Headlines
#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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#1347692022-05-31
Species recovery targets in England damaging and illogical, scientists warn
The government has set damaging and illogical targets for species recovery in England that could mean there is eight years of decline before any improvement, despite already being at “rock bottom”, scientists have warned the prime minister.
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#1347192022-05-25
Biodiversity and the city
Within their Nature in the City Strategy, Hamilton City Council set themselves the ambitious target of moving from 1.8% to 10% native vegetation cover in Kirikiriroa by 2050. Across the city there are hundreds of patches of green that they could target for native regeneration. So where should th ...
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#1346382022-05-22
Call for urgent action on measuring progress for ctitical biodiversity targets
As the world commemorates International Biodiversity Day, TRAFFIC urges governments to finalize the global goals and targets to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity which are under development for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
News Headlines
#1344742022-05-16
COP26 chief: Leaders must do more to honour climate promises
Global leaders have not done enough to honour commitments made at the COP26 climate summit, its president has said. Alok Sharma said more must be done to hit the targets agreed in Glasgow, warning that failure would be "an act of monstrous self-harm".
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#1343542022-05-11
India committed towards target of restoring 26 mn ha degraded land by 2030 despite Covid, economic challenges: Environment Minister
Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said that the Covid-19 pandemic has “compounded the challenge of fighting global warming” as economic pressures have delayed progress of climate action around the world.
News Headlines
#1342952022-05-05
Where humans don't fear leopards
While leopards have been targeted for poaching or revenge killings in much of India, the people of Bera continue to live in peaceful cohabitation with the graceful felines.
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#1340062022-04-12
Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill 2021 misses the target despite good intentions
The Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2021 introduces a regulatory framework for ‘invasive alien species’ in the Indian environmental legislative regime. However, despite being a well-intended step, the scope of the provision remains narrow and inadequate for managing the menace of invasive sp ...
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#1339352022-04-06
‘It’s a thorny issue.’ Why a fight over DNA data imperils a global conservation pact
For conservation biologists, the highest item on the global agenda this year is persuading the world’s nations to agree on new targets for saving nature. National leaders are scheduled to meet in China later this year to finalize a new strategic plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity (C ...
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#1338202022-03-29
Will big biodiversity ambitions be enough to save nature?
After the world missed almost all of its targets to protect fast-dwindling nature for the last decade, observers following a new round of negotiations are focusing as much on how goals will be put in place as the headline targets.
News Headlines
#1338332022-03-29
This time it's different? Nations discuss big biodiversity ambitions
Nearly 200 nations are taking part in talks, aimed at fine-tuning a draft text to preserve biodiversity by 2050, with key 2030 milestones, set to be adopted at the United Nations COP15 conference later this year after the world missed almost all of its targets to protect fast-dwindling nature fo ...
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#1338352022-03-29
UN biodiversity talks fail to agree on new targets to protect wildlife
A fortnight of negotiations to establish the draft of a new global deal reversing the loss of wildlife and habitats has ended in what has been described as “major disappointment” after countries failed to agree on any new biodiversity targets.
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#1337952022-03-08
Call for SA to join 30% conservation target to stem nature loss, climate change
Scientists, conservationists and youth leaders are calling on the government to back a draft United Nations target to double globally protected areas to stem the loss of nature and reduce the effects of climate change.
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#1337362022-03-07
Rewilding Argentina: lessons for the 2030 biodiversity targets
When Mariuá, a 1.5-year-old female jaguar, set foot in our breeding centre in Argentina in December 2018, we did not know that she would make history.
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#1336982022-03-03
What the IPCC Report tells us about the need for radical climate action
In November 2021, COP26 concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, with the adoption of the Glasgow Climate Pact – a commitment to reach a global net-zero emissions target by 2050. Central to the pact is keeping a 1.5℃ global warming target within reach. Glasgow achieved some progress, but estimates sugges ...
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#1337032022-03-03
Bull ant evolves new way to target pain
Australian bull ants have evolved a venom molecule perfectly tuned to target one of their predators—the echidna—that also could have implications for people with long-term pain, University of Queensland researchers say.
News Headlines
#1336492022-03-02
Can the world meet global climate targets without coordinated global action?
Like many of its predecessors, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland concluded with bold promises on international climate action aimed at keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, but few concrete plans to ensure that those promises will be kept.
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#1334202022-02-22
Swiss population in favor of strict food waste rules
ETH researchers have shown that the Swiss population is willing to pay more to reduce food waste. It is in favor of government regulations that set strict reduction targets and ensure transparent monitoring of implementation.
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#1332052022-02-15
Yale Researchers Identify Six Target U.S. Audiences for Climate Change Messaging
As part of their biannual climate change perception reports, researchers from Yale University have identified six target audiences in the United States with unique responses to climate change.
News Headlines
#1331272022-02-11
Archerfish recognize that insects they have never seen before are animals
Lurking beneath overhanging foliage, archerfish have one thing on their mind: taking a well-aimed pot-shot at the next insect that settles within range. Squirting a ballistic jet of water, these tenacious assassins precisely target their victims, ready to dine.
News Headlines
#1330662022-02-10
Youth leaders call for vigilance on natural resources
Youth leaders have called on fellow Tanzanians to be vigilant of investments that target natural resources in the country.
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#1329982022-02-08
National biodiversity strategy to 2030 approved
Under the strategy, the Government targets increasing the area of protected ecosystems to 9 percent of the country's land area, and protected marine and coastal areas to 3-5 percent of the total sea area.
News Headlines
#1329772022-02-07
Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress - study
Many of the world's biggest companies are failing to meet their own targets on tackling climate change, according to a study of 25 corporations.
News Headlines
#1328652022-02-02
OPINION: There can be no climate action without targets to protect wetlands
Safeguarding and restoring shrinking wetlands is our last, best defence against global warming and biodiversity loss
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#1328042022-01-31
Study explores how temperate rainforests can aid the fight against climate change
There is global recognition that woodland expansion could be one of the most effective solutions in the fight against climate change. However, new research has shown that the level of growth needed to produce the amount of trees required by UK targets is unlikely to be achieved through natural m ...
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#1327332022-01-25
Report outlines how oceanographic infrastructure can reach net zero
A new review has outlined how the UK's oceanographic research infrastructure must transition to become net zero by 2040. The report supports UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI) target of becoming net zero by 2040. It was led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) working with seven other lead ...
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#1326802022-01-20
Scientists Express Need for Transformative Changes To Halt Biodiversity Loss
More than 50 scientists from 23 countries came together to deliver to governments a synthesis of the science informing and underpinning 21 targets laid out in Aichi Biodiversity Targets. These 21 targets are referred to as post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and are part of the UN Conv ...
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#1326152022-01-19
First NI environment strategy 'should be more ambitious
More than 30 organisations and individuals have called for greater ambition in Northern Ireland's first-ever environment strategy. It comes after a Stormont committee was told the target for increasing woodland cover was outdated.
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#1326162022-01-19
Biodiversity faces its make-or-break year, and research will be key
Biodiversity is being lost at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. But the United Nations decade-old plan to slow down and eventually stop the decline of species and ecosystems by 2020 has failed. Most of the plan’s 20 targets — known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets — have not been met.
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#1326372022-01-19
Siam City Cement Group and IUCN continue partnership to support SCCC Group’s sustainability ambition 2030 and biodiversity conservation in Asia
Siam City Cement Group (SCCC Group) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) extended their partnership for another three years by formalizing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently to support the implementation of the INSEE Sustainability Ambition 2030 targeting N ...
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#1326562022-01-19
Reversing destruction of biodiversity should be top priority
Over 50 experts say reversing biodiversity loss will take take more than placing protection on land and sea zones. Setting aside 30% of the worlds land and oceans is just measure one of the 21 targets in the first draft of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), however experts are saying even ...
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#1324182022-01-12
Germany ‘must triple pace of emissions cuts’ to meet 2030 target
Germany missed its climate target for 2021 and is likely to miss them again this year and next, according to vice chancellor Robert Habeck, who said the country “must triple the pace of emission cuts” to reach its 2030 goals.
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#1322192021-12-17
Scottish forestry’s ambitious targets to balance environmental, economic and social outcomes
Well before world leaders headed to Glasgow for November’s COP26, the Scottish Government, along with the rest of the UK, had already committed to some very ambitious tree-planting targets.
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#1321322021-12-10
New tool launched to track Europe’s 3bn trees target
Under the European Green Deal, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.
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#1321082021-12-09
In wildlife traffickers, the internet finds a cancel target everyone agrees on
But as more tech companies join the cause, and algorithms to weed out trafficking keywords grow more sophisticated, traffickers are becoming savvier and evolving new ways to keep operating in the internet’s vast gray zone.
News Headlines
#1320662021-12-06
How Fashion Can Deliver on COP26 Ambitions
Amid mounting evidence of fashion’s dramatically negative climate impact, countries, communities and companies are mobilising around protecting the planet. However, a new era of climate action will be required if fashion is to meet ambitious targets to reverse the damage being done.
News Headlines
#1320172021-12-02
COP26: UK 'nowhere near' meeting targets agreed at Glasgow climate summit
The UK is "nowhere near" meeting emissions targets enshrined at the Glasgow climate summit, official advisers have warned.
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#1319802021-11-29
Stand against climate crisis is stand against gender violence
The climate crisis and environmental degradation are fuelling gender-based violence. Women and gender minorities at the forefront of environmental resistance movements are a prime target of violence. They are threatened, intimidated, attacked, or killed while defending their homes, communities, ...
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#1319632021-11-26
Island conservationists identify key barriers to meeting biodiversity targets
The failure to meet global biodiversity targets clearly indicates the need for more effective biodiversity management and conservation efforts, and this in turn requires better understanding of the current barriers to success.
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#1319192021-11-24
The barriers to achieving island biodiversity targets
A study indicates the greater necessity for biodiversity conservation, analysing 33 barriers to reaching biodiversity targets and how nations are to better manage island ecosystems
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#1319202021-11-24
Island conservationists identify key barriers to meeting biodiversity targets
Research with island conservationists in the Western Indian Ocean revealed a raft of barriers operating across management levels, which interfere with their ability to achieve local and national conservation objectives. The most common problems were limited capacity, limited resources and a lack ...
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#6186News Headlines
#1318242021-11-19
Big banks want to act on climate change — so what's stopping them?
As the dust settles from the recent UN climate summit in Glasgow, there's still plenty of debate about what was actually accomplished at COP26 and how various nations will reach the lofty environmental targets they've pledged.
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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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#1316812021-11-15
‘A step in the right direction’: EU reacts to COP26 deal
The United Nations target of containing global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius “remains within reach, but the work is far from done,” said Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.
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#1316522021-11-11
How the circular economy can help transform food to fight climate crisis and build biodiversity
With the climate and biodiversity COPs in progress, one part of the economy increasingly finds itself in the spotlight: food. Our current food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss and accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, spurring businesses and policymakers alike ...
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#1315802021-11-10
COP26: Draft deal calls for stronger carbon cutting targets by end of 2022
Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit.
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#1315902021-11-10
China’s top Cop26 delegate says it is taking ‘real action’ on climate targets
China has detailed and concrete plans on how to meet its climate commitments, and is pushing those plans forward vigorously, unlike some countries that are “paying lip service” to their climate targets, the head of delegation for China at the Cop26 climate talks has said.
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#1315672021-11-09
Cop26 is creating false hope for a 1.5C rise – the stark reality is very different
Since the Paris agreement in 2015, countries around the world have promised ambitious action on climate change. Six years later, it is clear that they haven’t followed through on that promise. In the latest analysis carried out by Climate Action Tracker, published today, we find that the vast ma ...
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#1315292021-11-08
Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26
Rich countries must hit their $100bn climate finance target in the last week of Cop26 or it will be catastrophic for the poorest nations suffering the most from the climate crisis, the Gambian environment minister has warned.
Notification
#31232021-11-08
Invitation to the webinar on proposed headline indicators for access and benefit-sharing: Goal C and Target 13 of the draft post-2020 global biodiversity framework - 23 November 2021
Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/JR/89990 (2021-077)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
English
News Headlines
#1314992021-11-04
Nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation
The need to mitigate climate change, and the role that nature can play in doing so, are recognized under multilateral agreements, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). However, we are collectively on a path ...
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#1314582021-11-03
CoP26: Humanity is compressing millions of years of natural change into just a few centuries
Many numbers are swirling around the climate negotiations at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, CoP26. These include global warming targets of 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2.0℃, recent warming of 1.1℃, remaining carbon dioxide budget of 400 billion tonnes, or current atmospheric CO2 of 415 ...
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#1314682021-11-03
Ireland would need to cull up to 1.3 million cattle to reach climate targets
Up to 1.3 million cattle would have to be culled in Ireland to reach anticipated government targets for reducing greenhouse gases in the agriculture sector, a new report has concluded.
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#1313972021-11-02
COP26: US to stop methane leaks from oil and gas wells
The US is set to announce measures to prevent millions of tonnes of the greenhouse gas methane from entering the atmosphere. The measures will target methane leaking from oil and gas rigs across the US.
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#1313982021-11-02
Leaders issue doomsday warning to tackle climate crisis
World leaders ramped up the rhetoric on Monday in an attempt to revive sputtering international climate negotiation. The COP26 conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow opened on Monday, a day after the G20 economies failed to commit to a 2050 target to halt net-carbon emissions – a deadline wi ...
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#1313612021-11-01
G20 Leaders Agree To 1.5°C Global Warming Target With 'effective & Meaningful Actions'
The global leaders at the just-concluded Group of Twenty (G20) Summit committed to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C with "meaningful and effective actions", apart from many other concrete decisions on "sustainable and inclusive growth (of) Countries...across the world".
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#1313782021-11-01
World Leaders to Focus on Climate Change as Major Conference Opens
More than 100 world leaders are gathering for a summit Monday as work begins at a two-week U.N. climate conference, with areas of focus expected to include pledges for emissions targets and funding to help developing nations cope with impacts from climate change.
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#1313242021-10-29
Hard or soft law: what’s the status of EU sustainable agriculture goals?
With the recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Commission wants to make the EU’s farming subsidy programme more performance-oriented. However, non-binding targets and national leeway might hinder the Commission’s quest to keep track of results.
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#1312302021-10-28
Canada’s marine protected areas aren’t as safe as you think
As the globe’s “do or die” UN climate conference gets underway next week, Canada must scale up efforts to meet its ambitious ocean conservation targets to simultaneously prevent the wholesale collapse of marine biodiversity and tackle climate change, experts say.
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#1312032021-10-27
If all 2030 climate targets are met, the planet will heat by 2.7 C this century
If nations make good on their latest promises to reduce emissions by 2030, the planet will warm by at least 2.7℃ this century, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. This overshoots the crucial internationally agreed temperature rise of 1.5℃.
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#1312222021-10-27
For Canada, meeting its current climate targets will be complicated and expensive
The historical pattern holds true with past agreements struck in Rio, Kyoto and Copenhagen. To meet the Paris target and the federal government's revised target unveiled this summer, considerable change is necessary.
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#1311782021-10-26
How to know if a country is serious about net zero: Look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels
Fresh emissions targets from Saudi Arabia and Australia—two of the world's largest fossil-fuel producers—are due to arrive just in time for global climate talks in Glasgow. These would commit the two countries to reducing domestic emissions to net zero by around mid-century—though both are expec ...
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#1311262021-10-25
Climate finance for poor countries to hit $100bn target by 2023, says report
The longstanding target for providing climate finance to the developing world will be met within two years, according to a report ahead of the UN Cop26 climate summit.
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#1309292021-10-19
Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far
This online event will be followed by an in-person one in Geneva in January 2022, and negotiations will formally end in April 2022 in Kunming, China, where the world will agree a post-2020 global biodiversity framework with targets for the next decade.Most countries 196 in total, with the US bei ...
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#1309582021-10-19
Video: How can we eat without cooking the planet?
Professor Susan Jebb , Oxford's diet and population health expert maintains, "We cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet.". Talking in the latest of 10 videos from leading Oxford experts in the run up to the COP26 climate conference, Professor Jebb points out that agriculture acco ...
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#1309612021-10-19
Climate action needed to avert 'health catastrophe'
To achieve sustained recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid an "impending health catastrophe," countries must commit to targeted action on climate change, health experts have urged ahead of the UN climate summit, COP26.
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#1309162021-10-18
Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far
“Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October 13 2021, otherwise known as COP15.
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#1308372021-10-15
China’s ecological red line system, BRI to help countries achieve post-2020 targets
China expressed a strong ambition to further strengthen biodiversity protection at the first global meeting convened by the UN on ecological civilization on Monday, and analysts who highlighted China's achievements in and contributions to the global biodiversity agenda believe many of China's pr ...
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#1308452021-10-15
World Leaders mobilise resources to combat biodiversity crisis and Build Back Better
Governments adopted a high-level declaration to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and provide the political momentum needed to meet the targets of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. TRAFFIC is encouraged by the commitments made at the UN Biodiversity Conference 2020 in Kunming, China, ...
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30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)
The recently issued Kunming Declaration from the High-Level Segment of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference lays the foundation for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to be negotiated next year. Its stated goal is to reverse the extinction crisis and build an “ecological civ ...