Photograph by: Enric Sala, National Geographic
January 13, 2020
At least 30% of the world’s land and seas should be protected in the next decade to prevent the destruction of the planet’s biodiversity.
That is one of the proposals by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for a global framework to protect the Earth’s plant and wildlife.
January 13, 2020
At least 30% of the world’s land and seas should be protected in the next decade to prevent the destruction of the planet’s biodiversity.
That is one of the proposals by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for a global framework to protect the Earth’s plant and wildlife.
The draft text published by the CBD on Monday outlines a 10-year strategy to halt the decline and extinction of species and allow ecosystems to recover by 2050.
January 13, 2020
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has released a ‘zero draft’ proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The text outlines a target to protect at least 30% of the planet by 2030. The proposed framework applies a “theory of change” approach, a strategic planning framework used to help plan, implement and evaluate the impacts of the actions taken.
January 13, 2020
Today, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity released its ‘zero draft’ text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Outlined in the text is critical goal of protecting at least 30% of the planet for nature–land and sea–by 2030, otherwise known as 30 by 30.
January 13, 2020
Almost a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by the end of the decade to stop and reverse biodiversity decline that risks the survival of humanity, according to a draft Paris-style UN agreement on nature.
To combat what scientists have described as the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history, the proposal sets a 2030 deadline for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems and wildlife that perform crucial services for humans.
January 12, 2020
Today, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity released its ‘zero draft’ text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Featured in the text is a target to protect at least 30% of the planet — land and sea — by 2030.
January 7, 2020
When the United Nations welcomed heads of state to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, a global consensus was reached to take vital steps to save the planet. To that end, more than 170 nations gave their support to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. But was not the only treaty at the summit. There was also a Convention on Biological Diversity. The climate change treaty is well understood internationally — even if the Trump administration and its congressional allies continue to engage in dangerous denialism and obstruction.
December 28, 2019
A Conversation With E.O. Wilson The eminent biologist discusses his “Half Earth” vision and adventures with ants.
December 2, 2019
How much time do we have left? This question concerns more and more people who are aware of the consequences and urgency of climate change and species extinction. A lot of time has been lost, but there is a date that must be delivered: the international community must agree on ambitious goals at the World Biodiversity Summit in October 2020.
December 16, 2019
Sonoma received some distinguished guests from Wisconsin recently, including Russ Feingold, a three-term U.S. senator from that state and key champion of an event that is near and dear to our hearts: Earth Day’s upcoming 50th anniversary.
December 12, 2019
At COP25 in Madrid, a UN Climate Conference that seeks to incorporate the need to preserve biodiversity in the fight against warming, the Costa Rican Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, seeks to convince the maximum number of countries to act faster and with greater ambition.
December 10, 2019
Yesterday was #HumanRightsDay and the importance of access to and conserving nature as a basic human right was emphasized repeatedly at the UN Climate Meeting in Madrid — sustaining biodiversity is increasingly recognized for its benefits to addressing the climate emergency. And as developing countries are stepping up to fill the leadership void at the Climate Meeting, their leaders are looking for multifaceted climate solutions that conserve biodiversity as well as providing for sustainable use of natural resources.
December 5, 2019
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold discusses climate change and his role with the Campaign for Nature on CNN. (Segment begins at mark 13:18)
December 2, 2019
Protecting and restoring natural areas in Latin America, home to fifty percent of the planet’s biodiversity and over a quarter of its forests, is critical if the world is to avert a biodiversity and climate disaster.
October 31, 2019
[…] how we view our relationship with land and sea could be make-or-break for our civilisation and also help determine the fate of every other creature on Earth. The world is suffering massive ecosystem degradation, unprecedented wildlife decline and extinctions—all of this in the face of possible runaway climate change.
Governments and businesses now have an opportunity to take a critical, collective step to arrest this decline: to agree to protect at least 30 percent of the world on land and sea.
