Phys.org
February 26, 2020
Extinction risk could decrease by more than 50% if at least 30% of land were to be conserved across the tropics, a new study reveals.
National Geographic
February 18, 2020
Today, 23 former foreign ministers from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific released a statement calling for stronger conservation protections of land and oceans for the sake of –as well as national security.
HuffPost
February 14, 2020
An irradiated nuclear zone is hardly the most obvious animal sanctuary. But in January, almost a decade after Japan’s Fukushima disaster, scientists using remote cameras in the area around the abandoned power station discovered an abundance of wildlife.
Yale Environment 360
February 13, 2020
Leading scientists and conservationists are proposing that up to 50 percent of the earth’s land and oceans be protected in the coming decades. While some view the goal as unrealistic, proponents say it is essential for preserving the natural systems on which life itself depends.
EOS
February 7, 2020
An initiative to conserve at least 30% of land and ocean in the United States by 2030 can help to confront the threats of climate change and biodiversity loss, and it should not be thwarted by White House inaction, said Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) at a 7 February briefing in Washington, D.C., about the initiative.
High Country News - OpED
January 31, 2020
In his 1963 book The Quiet Crisis, my father, former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, sounded the alarm about the creeping destruction of nature. “Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet,” he wrote. “By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Opinion
January 27, 2020
Nations of the world have, to date, pursued nature protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation policies separately. Both efforts have failed to achieve the scale of action needed to halt biodiversity loss or mitigate climate change. […] A new target of 30% of the sea given high levels of protection from exploitation and harm by 2030 is under consideration and similar targets are being discussed for terrestrial habitats. We make the case here that these higher targets, if achieved, would make the transition to a warmer world slower and less damaging for nature and people.
The Times of India - Editorial
January 25, 2020
Our planet has suffered five mass extinctions, the last of which occurred about 66 million years ago, when a giant asteroid believed to have landed near the Yucatan Peninsula set off a chain reaction that wiped out the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the other species on earth. A few years ago, in a book called The Sixth Extinction, the writer Elizabeth Kolbert warned of a devastating sequel, with plant and animal species on land and sea already disappearing at a ferocious clip, their habitats destroyed by human activities.
European Parliament News
January 16, 2020
MEPs want the upcoming global biodiversity conference COP 15 to agree on legally binding targets, as was the case for the Paris agreement on climate change. Parliament adopted its position in view of the 2020 UN biodiversity conference (COP 15), in Kunming (China) in October by show of hands. To stop the current trajectory of biodiversity loss, the conference needs to agree on legally binding targets with timelines, performance indicators and reporting mechanisms based on common standards, says the resolution.
InsideClimate News
January 14, 2020
A new United Nations proposal calls for national parks, marine sanctuaries and other protected areas to cover nearly one-third or more of the planet by 2030 as part of an effort to stop a sixth mass extinction and slow global warming. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity released the proposed targets on Monday in a first draft of what is expected to become an update to the global treaty on biodiversity later this year.
Mongabay
January 13, 2020
A proposed update to the global treaty governing plant and animal life on Earth calls for nearly a third of the planet to be designated as protected by 2030. That proposal will go before the summit of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in China this October, where governments will hash out a framework for biodiversity protection over the coming decade and determine the fates of myriad endangered species.
La Vanguardia
January 13, 2020
The Convention of the United Nations Organization (UN) on Biological Diversity presented this Monday the 'Zero Draft' (draft zero). This document represents the text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which indicates that the objective is to protect at least 30 percent of the planet, both land and sea, by 2030, according to Campaign For Nature reports The text is based on a strategy for the next ten years with the aim of stopping and reversing the decline of species and thus being able to restore the services of ecosystems critical for the survival of humanity . According to Campaign For Nature, the final document will be presented at the 15th Conference of the Parties in October 2020 in Kunming, China.
HuffPost
January 13, 2020
To reverse the rapid loss of species around the globe, world governments should protect nearly one-third of all lands and oceans and slash major sources of pollution by the end of the decade, according to a new United Nations proposal.
The draft plan, released Monday by the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, outlines a path for combating the biodiversity crisis that many scientists say is the start of Earth’s sixth mass extinction.
Energy Live News
January 13, 2020
The UN has published a series of draft proposals to reach outlined 2030 biodiversity goals, which include protecting nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land by 2030.
That’s according to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which has set out how it believes nations should work towards the deadline for the conservation and restoration of global ecosystems and wildlife in order to protect humanity.
La Croix
January 13, 2020
The Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD) proposes to protect at least 30% of the planet by 2030 to combat accelerated degradation of nature, according to the first version of a text released on Monday.
The 15th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held in Kunming, China, in October. This meeting, considered crucial, must define a roadmap for the 200 members of the CBD to better protect ecosystems during the decade.