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#6450World Intellectual Property Day
26 April 2024, Geneva, Switzerland
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#6470Online discussion of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
7 - 21 February 2024, Online
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#6399International expert workshop on Non-Detriment Findings (NDFs)
4 - 8 December 2023, Nairobi, Kenya
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#6339International Conference on Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Building
19 - 21 April 2023, Paris, France
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#1355022022-08-01
Waitrose removes best-before dates from fresh food to reduce waste
Waitrose is removing best-before dates from nearly 500 fresh food products in an effort to reduce food waste. From September, the staff-owned supermarket chain will scrap the dates on packaged fruit and vegetables, including lettuce, cucumber and peppers, to encourage consumers to use their own ...
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#1354852022-07-27
Gov’t urged to gather comprehensive primary data on Ghana’s ecosystems
Professor Alfred Apau Oteng-Yeboah, a renowned botanist and Chairperson of the National Biodiversity Committee (NBC) of Ghana, is asking the Government to gather comprehensive primary data on Ghana’s ecosystems, plant and animal species.
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#1354432022-07-26
Keep starfish off the barbecue: New Zealanders call for rockpool protections
New Zealanders are calling for authorities to restrict the pillaging of the country’s rockpools and shorelines, amid fears that a taste for shellfish, limpets, octopuses and barbecued starfish is disrupting ecosystems and driving some species toward extinction.
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#1354622022-07-26
Thaw and redraw: melting glacier moves Italian-Swiss border
Way up in the snowy Alps, the border between Switzerland and Italy has shifted due to a melting glacier, putting the location of an Italian mountain lodge in dispute.
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#1354642022-07-26
US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation's forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of c ...
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#1354792022-07-26
Minister Barbara Creecy invites comments on the draft biodiversity management plan for the African penguin
he Minister for Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms. Barbara Creecy, published a notice in the Official Gazette on Friday 22nd July 2022 inviting the public to comment on the draft Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) for the penguin African.
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#1354122022-07-21
IUCN and MoCC launch Pakistan’s First-ever Climate Change Gender Action Plan
IUCN comes forward with new commitments and initiatives in its Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP) to strengthen the resilience of women and girls in the face of climate-related impacts, while aiming to accelerate progress and support gender-responsive climate action plan.
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#1354182022-07-21
Destruction of nature as threatening as climate crisis, EU deputy warns
The human-made crisis engulfing the natural world is “just as threatening, perhaps even more so” than the climate crisis, one of the EU’s most senior officials has warned.
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#1354192022-07-21
Effective laws needed to protect large carnivores from extinction
Effective national and international laws are needed to reverse the decline of populations of large carnivores—such as tigers, wolves, and eagles—and reduce their risk of extinction, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports.
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#1353692022-07-20
Biden's new steps on climate to fall short of 'emergency' designation
U.S. President Joe Biden will unveil new executive steps to address climate in a visit to Massachusetts on Wednesday that are expected to fall short of declaring the federal emergency many Democrats had urged.
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#1353752022-07-20
Indonesian islanders sue cement producer for climate damages
Residents of an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels have begun legal action against the cement producer Holcim. The claim for compensation, filed in Switzerland by three men and one woman, is understood to be the first major climate damages lawsuit against a cement company.
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#1353342022-07-15
Pollutionwatch: air pollution evidence needs translating into action
About 10 years ago I was called to give evidence before the Greater London assembly. I sat in a basement committee room with assembly members lined up behind a table and the public around us. The first question really surprised me; I was asked when we would have enough health evidence to justify ...
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#1352992022-07-12
Harris to request $600M for ocean resilience in Pacific Islands
Vice President Harris on Tuesday will request $600 million in funding for economic development and ocean resilience, which is intended to build on efforts that enable U.S. fishing-fleet access to the Pacific and combat the scourge of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
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#1353252022-07-12
Minister Guilbeault pleads for a global agreement on biodiversity
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. The Federal Minister of the Environment has completed a two-day tour of Washington during which he hammered home the need for a global agreement to halt the “alarming rate” of biodiversity loss .
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#1352682022-07-11
What the SCOTUS ruling on EPA and emissions means for climate change
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its ruling on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), limiting the EPA's authority under a provision of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.
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#1352712022-07-11
The EPA needs to retool its fight against climate pollution. Here’s how.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the EPA did not have the authority under the Clean Air Act to decide which energy sources would be prioritized. Essentially, this means that EPA cannot curb carbon emission through “generation shifting.”
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#1352602022-07-06
Nature-based solutions: How can they work for climate, biodiversity and people?
Experts gathered in Oxford this month to discuss how “nature-based solutions” can be used to tackle the twin threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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#1352332022-07-06
Global dismay as supreme court ruling leaves Biden’s climate policy in tatters
Joe Biden’s election triggered a global surge in optimism that the climate crisis would, finally, be decisively confronted. But the US supreme court’s decision last week to curtail America’s ability to cut planet-heating emissions has proved the latest blow to a faltering effort by Biden on clim ...
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#1352482022-07-06
Connecting the spots: First comprehensive review of national jaguar protection laws
Conservationists have conducted the first comprehensive review of national laws across the range of the jaguar (Panthera onca) to show opportunities for strengthening legal protections of the largest cat species found in the Americas.
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#1352562022-07-06
AfDB calls for more climate finance for Africa to support global goals
Rich countries and international financial institutions need to provide more funding for Africa to support global climate goals by preventing African nations from pursuing carbon-intensive development, a senior African Development Bank executive said on Wednesday.
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#1351922022-07-05
EU Nature Restoration Law ‘significant and highly positive step’
Nature is in decline globally and it clearly needs action at all levels if we are to bend the curve of biodiversity loss in a positive direction. T
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#1351942022-07-05
Ensuring Positive Impacts On Biodiversity Under The Future CAP
Based on an analysis of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that will apply over the period 2023-2027, more than 300 experts from 23 European Union Member States have analysed its impacts on the protection and restoration of biodiversity.
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#1351992022-07-05
Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park
The government of Malawi has initiated construction works for a water project inside Lake Malawi National Park, despite court challenges and sustained protests from conservationists who say the project threatens the park’s UNESCO-recognized biodiversity and archaeological sites.
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#1351702022-07-04
UN Ocean Conference: 198 countries adopt Lisbon Declaration
All 198 members of the United Nations unanimously adopted July 1, 2022 the Lisbon Declaration on ocean conservation. The nations, on the last day of the UN Ocean Conference 2022, committed to follow science-based and innovative actions on an urgent basis
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#1351722022-07-04
Protecting Brazil’s Amazon could be a bargain — if the government were willing to pay
To convert around 80% of the Brazilian Amazon into environmental conservation areas would cost Brazil just over half of what the European Union spends to maintain all of its own conservation areas. Hectare for hectare, it would work out hundreds of times cheaper.
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#1351762022-07-04
UN talks urge faster steps to ensure ‘critical’ ocean health
A United Nations conference warned Friday that measures needed to protect the world’s oceans are running late and urged countries to accelerate their implementation.
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#1351782022-07-04
Marine Conservation: An Overview of Pollution by Dumping in the Ocean and International Laws to Combat it
Despite their immense importance for our wellbeing, humans have recklessly polluted the world’s ocean by dumping huge quantities of plastics and toxic substances from industrial activities.
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#1351892022-07-04
The value of a biodiversity management and action plan
A growing awareness of the implications of the loss of biodiversity resulted in the establishment of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the 1992 United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Earth Summit. Since its inception over 196 countries, including South Africa, have or are in ...
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#1351542022-06-30
U.S. Supreme Court limits ability to curb power plant emissions, in a blow to climate change fight
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the United States Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation's main anti-air-pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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#1351552022-06-30
Is climate inaction a human rights violation?
The UN Human Rights Office clearly states that climate change threatens the enjoyment of life, food, and health. It would probably be difficult to respond to this by taking a shift in global weather patterns to court.
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#1351612022-06-30
Making Beijing a low-carbon ‘capital of biodiversity’
A meeting of Beijing Communist Party representatives on 27 June laid out focus areas for China’s capital to become a low-carbon city and “capital of biodiversity”.
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#1351002022-06-29
Commonwealth adopts charter on climate, biodiversity and land
After almost two years of consultation, commonwealth leaders adopted the Living Lands Charter: A Commonwealth Call to action on Living Lands (CALL) at the 2022 Heads of Government meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.
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#1351022022-06-29
Six guiding principles for EU agricultural policy to halt biodiversity loss
Over 300 scientists make recommendations on how to improve the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
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#1351042022-06-29
Climate change: UK government told to insulate more homes
The UK government must drive down energy bills and reduce climate-warming emissions by insulating more homes, a report says. Official advisors the Climate Change Committee says the government's current insulation programme is "shocking".
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#1351162022-06-29
African court rules in favor of Indigenous land titles, reparations from the Kenyan government
The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled that the Kenyan government must pay reparations for repeatedly evicting Indigenous Ogiek people from ancestral lands in the Mau Forest in western Kenya, ending a 13-year court battle. The state must also grant collective land titles to the ...
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#1351182022-06-29
Government policies will not get UK to net zero, warns damning report
The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers have said, in a damning progress report to parliament.
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#1351202022-06-29
At UK meet, India calls for action on climate change
India on Tuesday called on the developed world to step up the scope, scale and speed of climate finance for the developing world to help tackle the crisis of climate change.
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#1351232022-06-29
EU countries reach climate crisis deal after late-night talks
EU countries clinched deals on proposed laws to combat the climate crisis in the early hours of Wednesday, backing a 2035 phase-out of new fossil-fuel car sales and a multibillion-euro fund to shield poorer citizens from the costs of carbon dioxide emissions.
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#1351382022-06-29
Nations must work together through ‘conflict and crisis’ to reduce climate change risks, Albanese tells OECD
Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese will declare the world must raise ambition to reduce the risks of runaway global heating and cooperate amid national policy differences even when “long shadows of conflict and crisis are threatening our shared security”.
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#1350992022-06-28
Warning Conditions Will Worsen without Stronger Governance, Speakers Discuss Ways to Stop Marine Biodiversity Loss, Restore Ocean Health, at Lisbon Dialogue
Marine and coastal ecosystems are the most threatened in the world — a fact that must receive greater attention if Governments are going to successfully reverse pollution trends and restore the health of the world’s oceans, speakers in the third interactive dialogue taking place alongside the 20 ...
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#1350642022-06-28
Less talk, more action from the G7 on climate change
It's difficult to cajole developing countries to abandon coal while reopening your own coal-fired power plants.
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#1350732022-06-28
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing.
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#1350342022-06-22
In Costa Rica, unlicensed fishers and regulators unite over a common enemy
Every morning, just after dawn, small-scale fishers Ettel Lattouche and Rafael Hernández head to the beach with their fishing gear to eke out a living. Together, the couple venture deep into the ocean off Punta Uva, a small town on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast, and hope to return with s ...
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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.
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#1349622022-06-14
Africa must forgo gas exploration to avert climate disaster, warn experts
Africa must embrace renewable energy, and forgo exploration of its potentially lucrative gas deposits to stave off climate disaster and bring access to clean energy to the hundreds of millions who lack it, leading experts on the continent have said.