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#1349652022-06-14
Researchers use whale photo archive to help protect important WA calving site
Researchers are combing through thousands of whale photos to help protect a calving site off Western Australia’s coast that was severely impacted by the whaling industry.
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#1320452021-12-03
UN biodiversity summit postponed over new Covid variant
The second part of UN biodiversity summit COP15, set to take place in Switzerland in January, has been postponed over the new coronavirus variant Omicron, organisers said on Thursday.
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#1249592020-03-31
UN gets new dates for biodiversity convention talks
Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s permanent subsidiary bodies, previously scheduled for May 2020, have tentatively been rescheduled for August and September 2020, respectively.
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#1249612020-03-31
The ‘super year for biodiversity’: Undermined by a wildlife market?
This year’s meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is being curtailed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Ironically, the pandemic most likely first emerged from wildlife being traded in a live animal market in Wuhan, China, writes Janice Weatherley Singh.
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#1245542020-03-05
Revised Text for Global Biodiversity Framework Requested by June
Governments and others deliberated on the structure of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and planned for further developing the draft text at their second of three negotiating meetings.
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#1244492020-03-02
Rich countries could be asked to pay billions to protect biodiversity
Wealthy nations could be asked to make significant financial contributions to biodiverse countries such as Brazil under proposals put forward during talks on a global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity decline.
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#1244582020-03-02
How the Kunming conference can turn biodiversity failures around
If we want real biodiversity targets then we need to address problems with the existing negotiation draft, says Peng Kui.Coronavirus has forced many to look again at how humanity relates to animals and nature. In Kunming this October, a meeting of importance to all life on the planet will take p ...
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#1244612020-03-02
Governments agree to 'bend the curve for global biodiversity loss'
Lack of resources to prevent global biodiversity loss and funds for megadiverse countries emerged as some of the major challenges during the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meeting in Rome. More than 600 delegates from 126 countries negotiated a "zero-draft" to prepare a framework to protect ...
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#1244342020-02-28
ASEAN joins second round of negotiations for new global biodiversity framework
The ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) took part in the second round of negotiations over the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which pushed through despite reports of an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Italy.
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#1243782020-02-26
We’re coming up with a new set of targets to protect the natural world. Here’s how
Science and scientists are converging around the knowledge that our planet, with us in the driver’s seat, is moving into the Anthropocene. This is a new geological epoch in which humanity’s actions are changing the face of the earth and how planetary systems – such as global nitrogen and phospho ...
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#1243642020-02-25
Preserving World’s Biodiversity: Negotiations Convene at FAO Headquarters
The world out there is watching and waiting for results,” Elizabeth Maruma Mrema warns while talking to IPS regarding the preservation of biodiversity of our planet.
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#1243222020-02-24
We need system change'
A draft global plan to halt the collapse of nature will not protect vulnerable communities or stop the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, claims Friends of the Earth International. The call comes as governments meet in Rome for the first time today to work on a “Paris-style” United Nations agreement ...
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#1243252020-02-24
Negotiations start on global 'Paris-style' deal to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction
Government ministers from across the globe will this week discuss a draft plan aimed at halting the collapse of nature by 2030, a deal likened as the Paris Agreement for biodiversity.
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#1243312020-02-24
UN biodiversity meeting needs to deliver transformative change, not just targets
There are just eight months left to make progress on a framework to protect biodiversity for the next ten years. It is of global importance that the October meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Chinese city of Kunming helps the world to stop biodiversity loss.
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#1243342020-02-24
Nations seek biodiversity accord to stave off mass extinction
Nature experts and government delegates gather this week in Rome to thrash out an international deal for endangered species, trying to avoid a mass extinction event caused by human activity. Having been hastily relocated from Kunming in China following the coronavirus outbreak, negotiators from ...
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#1243402020-02-24
World’s food systems rely on biodiversity
Rome – Everything we eat is produced in ways that imply some transformation of the environment, which means we must have careful discussions of the type and scale of transformations we are prepared to accept, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today in opening remarks to negotiators at a high-l ...
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#1243102020-02-21
We have a chance to halt biodiversity loss. The stakes have never been higher
The year 2020 has been designated a “super year for nature”, when the global community will rededicate itself to halting biodiversity loss with a 10-year action agenda, scheduled for agreement at the conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Kunming in China in October.
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#1242752020-02-20
Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists
The “fates of humans and insects are intertwined”, scientists have said, with the huge declines reported in some places only the “tip of the iceberg”. The warning has been issued by 25 experts from around the world, who acknowledge that little is known about most of the estimated 5.5 million ins ...
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#1242822020-02-20
The United Nations must get its new biodiversity targets right
Most measures of biodiversity suggest that things are going badly wrong. Some one million plant and animal species face extinction, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). And French President Emmanuel Macron last week called the ...
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#1242362020-02-19
These three challenges will make or break the Kunming biodiversity talks
There are just eight months left to make progress on a framework to protect biodiversity for the next ten years. It is of global importance that the October meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Chinese city of Kunming helps the world to stop biodiversity loss.
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#1242102020-02-18
World leaders urged to 'step back from precipice' of ecological ruin
Humanity’s ongoing destruction of nature threatens the survival of our species, a group of former foreign ministers has warned, calling on leaders to step back from “the precipice” of irreversible ecological ruin and protect the planet.
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#1242342020-02-18
Set a global target for ecosystems
Next week, representatives of more than 190 nations are gathering in Rome to discuss how to halt the biodiversity crisis during this decade and beyond.
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#1242352020-02-18
Rome. 196 pays à la 2ème étape vers la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique
Dans le cadre de la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique (CDB), les experts et les délégations officielles des 196 pays membres se réuniront du 24 au 29 février 2020 au siège de la FAO à Rome (Italie). Il s'agit d'une série de trois réunions préparatoires : la première a eu lieu en août 2019 à ...
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#1230212019-11-15
The first day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration of the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration for the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has begun today, a meeting that promotes dialogue based on scientific input and the experience of representatives from over 60 countries to develop suggestions on potential objectives, targets and ...
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#1230222019-11-15
“Living in harmony with Nature” – second day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration discusses how to achieve the 2050 Vision
In the second day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration for the post 2020 Global Biodiversity framework, Basile van Havre, co-chair of the 2020 work group opened the Session 5: Achieving the 2050 Vision, and relevant 2030 milestones
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#1230232019-11-15
The closing day of CBD´s Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration workshop
The third and last day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration for the post 2020 Global Biodiversity framework started with the report back from previous day work groups, presented by one country representative for each of the four stations:
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#1222732019-09-18
Biodiversity touches every aspect of our lives – so why has its loss been ignored?
The evidence is unequivocal: biodiversity, important in its own right and essential for current and future generations, is being destroyed by human activities at a rate unprecedented in human history.
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#1211242019-05-21
Iran to play an outstanding role in CBD
TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) – Head of Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) Kazem Khavazi said that Islamic Republic of Iran will play a bigger role in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).