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COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted
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The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded this weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever agreements on nature’s genetic data and on recognising people of Africa descent and Indigenous Peoples as key stewards in conservation efforts.
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Overshooting 1.5°C is risky – that’s why we need to hedge our bets
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The global response to climate change has gained momentum since the 2015 Paris Agreement, yet it remains inadequate to meet the scale of the challenge. That agreement established the goal of holding global warming to well below 2°C, and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. To achieve this, greenhouse gas emissions should peak and decline as soon as possible.
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Not Too Late for Realizing Sustainable Development Goals
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Since the Copenhagen Summit in 1995, remarkable progress has been achieved. However, recent overlapping crises have further stalled or reversed progress in many areas. Uneven progress — coupled with the lingering effects of economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, rising geopolitical conflicts, the climate crisis, and economic disruptions like the debt crisis — have deepened inequalities and placed significant stress on countries fiscal space for investing in sustainable development and the brunt felt by people.
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UN COP16 nature talks gridlocked as conservation funding trickles in
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Countries were at an impasse over how to fund conservation and other key decisions as the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit entered its second week on Monday, with nations pledging millions of dollars rather than the billions needed.
Seven countries and one provincial government pledged an additional $163 million to the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund on Monday, dubbed the summit’s “finance day.”
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How technology consumption shapes the future
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With fast-paced growing technological advancements, the link between technology usage habits and sustainable development provides a challenging problem for our society.
62 million tons of E-waste, or electronics waste, were produced in 2022, and only 22.3% of that was formally collected and properly recycled.
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Buildings must enhance Nature, not harm it
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The built environment sector is one of the most damaging to nature and biodiversity. Together with the WBCSD, Arup has launched a new report at COP16, demonstrating that measuring and monitoring ‘whole-life nature impacts’ are essential first steps to reducing the impact of buildings on the natural world.
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China’s Green Energy Wave enters the Middle East
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The US, the EU and Canada have all imposed tariffs on Chinese EVs, amid accusations that Beijing is dumping excess Chinese production overseas and using unfair subsidies. “Global markets are now flooded with cheaper [Chinese] electric cars. And their price is kept artificially low by huge state subsidies . . .
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Turkey aims to boost renewable energy share in electricity production
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.Turkey is aiming to further boost the share of renewable energy in its electricity production to 47.8 per cent by 2025, according to a report by the semi-official Anadolu Agency, citing the 2025 budget proposal of the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry.
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Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment
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Compared to other regions, the Arab world is probably the one most affected by desertification and drought. From the Maghreb to the Gulf, from the Sahara and the Sahel to the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Red sea.
More than anywhere else in the world, the Arab region is facing a water crisis.
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