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Global Biodiversity Framework Protects 30% of Planet by 2030
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 20, 2022 (ENS) – The first global agreement to protect at least 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030 was reached Monday by 196 [...]
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Governments Agree to Draft Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2022 (ENS) – To tackle plastic pollution accumulating across the globe, governments at the UN Environment Assembly here Tuesday approved the start of talks later this [...]
Air/Climate
WMO: Climate Disasters to Increase Until at Least the 2060s
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – The impacts of climate change are already “very visible” and “happening worldwide,” the head of the UN weather agency told the opening session [...]
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Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (ENS) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been awarded the 2021 Champions of the Earth Award, the United Nations’ highest environmental honor, for her [...]
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Humans ‘Hold the Survival of Other Species in Our Hands’
WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2021 (ENS) – An agreement to halt human-induced extinctions in 2022 is under consideration as countries gather online this week for the 15th meeting of the [...]
Land Use/Forests
IUCN to Coordinate Sustainability of Nature-based Solutions
MARSEILLE, France, September 9, 2021 (ENS) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress amplified its environmental decision-making on Wednesday by introducing a plan to develop a collaborative certification system for Nature-based [...]