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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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CNN

January 13, 2020
The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.

A new study released on Monday showed that 2019 was yet another year of record-setting ocean warming, with water temperatures reaching the highest temperature ever recorded.

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Climate Change News

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.

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Climate Home News

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.

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Oceanographic

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.

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Our Daily Planet

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.

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The Guardian

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.

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Campaign for Nature

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.  

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MarketWatch

January 10, 2020
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with more than $6.8 trillion under its control, becomes the latest signatory to Climate Action 100+, an influential big-money pact that’s pushing — although with spotty results so far — many of the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitters to take action on man-made climate change.

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American Medical Association

January 10, 2020
The AMA and 23 other medical organizations declared in a letter to President Donald Trump that “there is no single step that will do more for the health of all Americans than remaining in and meeting our obligations to the Paris Climate Agreement.”

The letter, which states that “climate change is a public health emergency,” was released by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.

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Fast Company

January 10, 2020
As wildfires devastate Australia, author and activist Julia Watson considers the wisdom of low-tech land management strategies that’ve been passed down through generations.

Australia’s wildfires—which, since September, have burned 17.9 million acres of the continent—have not only turned skies vermillion and made breathing the air a health hazard, they have also claimed the lives of an estimated 27 people and 1 billion animals. This global warming-fueled crisis began thanks to a combination of lightning, arson, and an unusually hot and dry summer season.

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Renewable Energy World

January 9, 2020
According to a report from the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree approving a national action plan for the first stage of adaptation to climate change, for the period up to 2022.

This national plan defines economic and social measures that will be implemented by federal and regional executive bodies to reduce the vulnerability of the Russian population, the economy and natural objects to the effects of climate change, as well as the seizing of the opportunities arising from such changes.

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