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Biodiversity Negotiations Should Account for COVID-19 and Ensure Equity

19 Aug, 2020

Originally published by IISD 2020 was meant to be an important year – a “super year”– for addressing the global biodiversity crisis, culminating in the adoption of  an ambitious framework for broad action to transform “society’s relationship with biodiversity” and fulfill “the shared vision of living in harmony with nature” by 2050. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), set to adopt the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), was planned …

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Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

5 Jun, 2020

by John C. Cannon, originally published on Mongabay Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea…

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Sweden’s forest crimes: “Today’s forestry threatens forests and the climate”

27 Feb, 2020

Published in Aktuell Hallbarhet For more on the campaign see 70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden

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Deforestation, a problem caused by government collusion

1 Apr, 2019

By Lourdes Uquillas, EFEverde Deforestation is one of the biggest problems today due to the destruction of biodiversity, in many cases by multinationals based in Europe, Canada, or China, that…

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Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime

7 Feb, 2019

Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Global Forest Coalition, Asunción, Paraguay It was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for…

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Agribusiness Invasion Threatens Indigenous of Paraguay’s Chaco Region

23 Dec, 2018

The Paraguayan Chaco region has been home to various groups of Indigenous peoples for millennia. But over the past few years, the land has been invaded by agribusinesses for the…

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The Poland Climate Conference Is Awash in Corporate Meddling

11 Dec, 2018

What are big-business interests doing at the Katowice United Nations conference? Read the original article here.

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Youth Activists Submit Their Demands at COP24: ‘We’re Fighting. Where Are You?’

5 Dec, 2018

While climate negotiators meet behind closed doors to implement the Paris Agreement, climate activists have put out their own set of demands. Read the original article here.

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Global Climate Coalition Issues COP24 Demands, Calls for an End to Corporate Capture

4 Dec, 2018

KATOWICE – Today, people issued a unified, global call to governments: Listen to people, not polluters at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 24th Conference of the Parties…

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Beef, soybeans’ production destroying biodiversity

28 Nov, 2018

(MENAFN – Daily News Egypt) Following a discussion held last week at the ongoing 14th Conference of Parties (COP14), under the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Egypt, the outcome highlighted…

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NGOs Call for Disinvestments in Biodiversity Destruction

21 Nov, 2018

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 21 2018 (IPS) – A discussion held earlier this week at the ongoing Convention of Biodiversity’s (CBD) Conference of Parties in Egypt highlighted that grants…

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‘Greenwash’: oil giant under fire over plan to protect tropical forests

20 Nov, 2018

Campaigners say move by Norway’s Equinor is an excuse to keep drilling for fossil fuels. Read the original article here.

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Safeguard women against development -led disasters – Withanage

17 Oct, 2018

In Sri Lanka and in most other parts of the world, when massive development projects fail and lead to disaster, it is the women who are most vulnerable to the…

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Do We Really Have the Time and the Tools to Fix Climate Change?

11 Oct, 2018

As part of the Paris agreement, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was asked “to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5…

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How Harvard’s investments exacerbate global land and water conflicts

9 Oct, 2018

A similar letter appeared in 2014, this time written by an international group of leaders from civil society organizations, like the Croatan Institute and the Global Forest Coalition. “Four decades…

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Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics

2 Oct, 2018

A Mongabay investigation has found that global consumers who buy brand name toilet paper and tissues may unwittingly be fuelling land conflicts, environmental crimes and the loss of native vegetation…

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Fire and Plantations in Portugal

13 Sep, 2018

By Oliver Munnion A case study on the risks of using tree plantations to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Devastating wildfires are increasingly a feature of summers across the globe,…

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