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Rainforest-rich nations ensure COP15 deal on nature sticks

December 20, 2022436 Views

Target to protect 30% of nature on Earth by 2030 A United Nations summit approved on Monday a landmark global deal to protect nature and direct billions of dollars toward conservation but objections from key African nations, home to large tracts of tropical rainforest, held up its final passage. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, reflecting the joint leadership of China and Canada, is the culmination of four years of work toward creating an agreement to guide global conservation efforts through 2030. There was widespread support for the final text put forward after two weeks of UN biodiversity negotiations to agree this decade’s targets for protecting nature, which included protecting 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade, reforming $500bn (£410bn...

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Dugong, coral, abalone face extinction threat, IUCN says

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December 9, 2022148 Views

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday. The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced the update during the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, conference in Montreal. The union’s hundreds of members include government agencies from around the world, and it’s one of the planet’s widest-reaching environmental networks. FILE PHOTO: Serena, a dugong, swims at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan on Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Linda Lombardi, File) The IUCN uses its Red List of Threatened Species to categorize animals approaching extinction. This year, the union is sounding the alarm about ...

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Biodiversity is crucial to the Travel & Tourism sector’s growth and resilience

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September 22, 2022349 Views

WTTC publishes ground-breaking report on how Travel & Tourism can reverse nature loss A new report published by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), shows how Travel & Tourism can play a critical role in halting and reversing the destruction of nature. The report, which will help businesses understand and manage their impact on biodiversity, is launched ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in December, where global governments will finalise actions to transform society’s relationship with nature, offers new hope for global nature conservation. ‘Nature Positive Travel & Tourism’, created jointly with ANIMONDIAL, a key advisor to global Travel & Tourism on animal and nature protection, and in collaboration with global businesses within the s...

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Scientists warn deal to save biodiversity is in jeopardy

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July 1, 2022259 Views

Conservation groups say that a lack of political leadership has bogged down negotiations Some conservation scientists are warning that a global deal to protect the environment is under threat after negotiations stalled during international talks in Nairobi last week. They are calling on global leaders to rescue the talks — and biodiversity — from the brink. Others are more hopeful that, although progress has been slow, a deal will be struck by the end of the year. A southeast Greenland polar bear on glacier, or freshwater, ice is seen in this handout photograph taken in September 2016. Thomas W. Johansen/NASA Oceans Melting Greenland/Handout via REUTERS Negotiators from around 200 countries that have signed up to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met in ...