Aid
Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement
Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat […]
Category: Biodiversity
Aid
Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience
Afghanistan is one of the frontline countries taking forward affordable ecosystem-based solutions to reducing disaster risk.
Aid
World Bank Group Announces $200 billion over Five Years for Climate Action
By ramping up direct adaptation finance to reach around $50 billion over FY 21-25, the World Bank will, for the first time, give this equal emphasis alongside investments...
Biodiversity
IUCN lists 15 new sites as world’s best protected areas
Green listed sites are certified as being effectively managed and fairly governed, with a positive impact on people and nature.
Biodiversity
Greenpeace activists arrested on ship loaded with palm oil heading to Europe
Six Greenpeace activists have been arrested by the captain of a giant tanker, while peacefully boarding the 185-metre long cargo loaded with palm oil […]
Biodiversity
Making forests the focus of global bioeconomies
Gabrielle Lipton On 11 October, the European Commission launched a new strategy to create a comprehensive bioeconomy – a ‘biosociety’ – and ultimately a carbon-neutral future. The […]
Biodiversity
Chinese logging put Solomon Islands rainforests at risk
New evidence suggest hugely unsustainable rates of logging and high risk of illegal practices in the Solomon Islands are putting China’s trade diplomacy at […]
Biodiversity
Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies
Aziz Ismail, 85, a French citizen born in Madagascar, bought into Madagascar’s shrimp business in 1973. His empire, known generally as Unima, now includes […]
Biodiversity
Coconut rhinoceros beetle: a huge threat in Solomon Islands and the Pacific
Luke Kiddle, Andrew Piper, Bob Macfarlane A new invasive strain of the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB), Oryctes rhinoceros, is present in Solomon Islands and is spreading rapidly. CRB is […]
Biodiversity
New Studies Show Progress Against Ivory Trade, Thanks to China Ban
The study found that 18 percent of regular outbound travelers bought ivory products on trips abroad, with Thailand and Hong Kong being the top two markets.
Biodiversity
World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims
The #team found that half of all #Bornean #Orangutans are impacted by #resource #extraction, and that their numbers fell by more than 100,000 over the sixteen years of...
Biodiversity
Indigenous Environmental Defender killed as logging mafia targets tribe in Brazil
A leader of an #Amazon #tribe acclaimed for its #environmental #defenders has been #killed, the latest in a series of deaths among the tribe.