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By Samantha Willis, Biodiversity Consultant at Ramboll In a significant step towards global nature recovery, bridging the Nature-Finance gap was at the heart of negotiations during the recent extended COP 16 session, which concluded in Rome on the 27th February. Samantha Willis of Ramboll.
A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available.
If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climatechange nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.
A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climatechange and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climatechange impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.
Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.
Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climatechange will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit. The money will be allocated from the UK's existing commitment of £11.6bn for international climate finance.
The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climatechange, he said. ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?
The move also came on the same day as a global poll revealed an overwhelming majority of people believe climatechange is as serious a crisis as Covid-19 and support the delivery of green economic recovery plans. The world needs to see more ambition to tackle the climate crisis," he said. "It
Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climatechange sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climatechange. Pull Quote.
Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climatechange but on biological diversity.
We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. The combination of habitat loss, pollution, exploitation of natural resources, population growth, environmental degradation, and climatechange have pushed the creatures that inhabit this planet to the brink.
While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.
environment minister Zac Goldsmith said: “We know there is no pathway to tackling climatechange that does not involve a massive increase in our efforts to protect and restore nature. So as co-host of the next ClimateCop, the U.K. So as co-host of the next ClimateCop, the U.K.
Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. The UK supports the WHO in playing an important role and hopes that parties will deepen cooperation within the G20 and other multilateral frameworks," he added.
DeSmog’s renewed focus on agriculture comes ahead of a pivotal and eventful year for climate, and food politics, with major summits related to biodiversity, energy and food due over the coming months in Colombia and Azerbaijan this year. This year an extreme weather phenomenon made harsher and more frequent by climatechange killed 7.1
Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climatechange can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.
Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climatechange can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.
The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climatechange problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration.
Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".
The study looked at a range of factors including Google search trends, Twitter mentions, and the popularity of green campaigns on the Avaaz website, which EIU said found evidence of significant shifts in behaviour with consumers increasingly demanding solutions to damaging nature and biodiversity loss. million in 2020, the research shows.
Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. This week, we set out that tackling climatechange will be our number one priority on the international stage in the decade ahead," he said.
All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climatechange.
UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climatechange," he said in a statement.
First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climatechange at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).
Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climatechange, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Wide-ranging new rules on how to fairly share ocean resources have also been agreed through the new treaty.
The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.
Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climatechange and reverse biodiversity loss. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.
Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency. Today, under a special program financed by the Norwegian government, Planet’s data helps power the UN’s REDD+ program, a mechanism developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC).
On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. Cristiana Pa?ca
To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climatechange and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.
There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climatechange – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. A Guardian investigation found that one in five ads served on search results around climatechange were placed by oil firms.
The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. What makes this COP so special? It has never happened in the history of the Convention.
Climatechange and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022.
One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climatechange. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. And at this critical moment in the fight against climatechange, we want to build on this collaboration. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation.
Wildfires are responsible for around 20% of annual global CO2 emissions, displace tens of thousands of people, endanger people’s health due to the inhalation of fine particulate matter, and have a devastating impact on biodiversity: in Australia during the 2019-2020 bushfire season alone, more than three billion animals were killed or displaced.
Our biggest existential threat, climatechange, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions.
C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climatechange”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Everything had changed forever. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,
Tropical deforestation is a leading driver of global climatechange and a source of climate risk in many corporate value chains. A new consensus on forests from the world’s leading carbon market governing body marks a significant turning point for voluntary carbon market (VCM) buyers.
The vision “Denying climatechange is tantamount to saying you don’t believe in gravity.” ” — Christina Figueres, climate advocate and diplomat, in her 2020 book The Future We Choose The spotlight How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing it?
Businesses must continue to make the case for climate ambition and stand against regulatory rollbacks, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols. And among the many reasons listed for why global environmental and climatechange efforts are currently falling short, a "worldwide pandemic" was a notable absentee.
Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climatechange–driven food insecurity. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.
All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climatechange summit. Tackling climatechange requires strong, global and ambitious action. Soon, economies will restart.
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To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. The physics of climatechange require us to cut emissions in half by 2030. degrees C below preindustrial norms) so we must act quickly. That breaks down to 7.6
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