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19/9/2022: Nearly a third of China's land is now off-limits to development, bringing the country in accord with global biodiversity targets. Critics say the enforcement of the scheme has remained uneven.

Source: CNA

EU seeks to ban imports of deforestation-linked commodities

15/9/2022: The European Parliament has approved a bill that would block imported commodities sourced from deforested areas. Experts believe that a central objective is to address the deforestation of the Amazon to produce beef, soy and timber.

Source: Mongabay

Warming above 1.5C could trigger multiple tipping points

8/9/2022: New research raises concerns about temperature-related tipping points that can trigger large-scale and potentially irreversible changes in the Earth system. It finds that five tipping elements are already within reach.

Source: Carbon Brief

Omens are good for a CoP15 plan to protect nature

30/8/2022: Despite many challenges, December’s crucial biodiversity talks in Montreal may set a new path for humans to live with nature. If agreed, the Global Biodiversity Framework would reboot conservation by greatly expanding protected areas, phasing out billions of dollars of subsidies that harm nature, and reducing pollution.

Source: The Guardian

UN fails to reach agreement to protect marine life

27/8/2022: Negotiations to establish a UN Ocean Treaty to protect biodiversity in two-thirds of the world’s oceanic areas have closed without agreement. Environmental campaigners expressed disappointment and blamed wealthy countries, including the US, for being too slow to compromise.

Source: The Guardian

Rainforest politics of the DRC oil auction

23/8/2022: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil.

Source: African Arguments

Bleak picture for marine life without emissions cuts

25/8/2022: New research has found that nearly 90% of marine life would be at high or critical risk by 2100 if the world continues upon a high-emissions pathway. Poorer countries at lower latitudes, least equipped to adapt, are the ones that face the highest risk.

Source: Mongabay

UN negotiations to decide the fate of the oceans begin

15/8/2022: The final negotiations for a Global Ocean Treaty are in progress. To be considered a success, the meeting must pave the way for 30% of the oceans to be protected from destructive activities lby 2030.

Source: Greenpeace International

To end illegal fishing, we need transparency now

18/8/2022: Insufficient monitoring, loopholes, and weaknesses in China’s regulatory framework makes possible illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and human rights abuses on an industrial scale. Ocean ecosystems are heading toward total collapse.

Source: Devex

50,000 wild species meet needs of billions worldwide

8/7/2022: Billions of people benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, energy, materials, medicine, recreation and inspiration. A new UN report finds that the accelerating global biodiversity crisis, with a million species of plants and animals facing extinction, threatens these contributions to well-being.

Source: IPBES

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