Papua New Guinea unveils enhanced NDC, secures €2.1 mln in EU climate funding
Papua New Guinea has set a pathway to reach net zero emissions by 2030 and become net-negative by 2035 under a near-final update to its national climate pledge, while simultaneously securing new EU funding to strengthen climate finance, forest monitoring, and biodiversity governance.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Bring finance ministers to Yerevan, stakeholders urgeÂ
Biodiversity finance should be elevated beyond environment ministries and embed nature considerations across economic policymaking, speakers urged governments at an online event Tuesday ahead of COP17 in Yerevan.
Read MoreCBD chief: Nature credits playing a “massive role” in biodiversity financing debate
Nature credits are playing a significant part in conversations around how to raise transparent biodiversity financing, said Astrid Schomaker, the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Read MoreNature conservation laws can protect countries from fund withdrawals -paper
The Kunming Declaration led fund managers to move portfolios to countries deemed to have lower biodiversity-related risk, but conservation laws can help deter investor withdrawals, a paper has said.
Read MoreGlobal 30×30 target prioritises African protected area expansion over ecological outcomes -paper
Expanding protected areas under the international target of safeguarding 30% of land and sea by 2030 should be seen as only one dimension of successful ecological conservation in Africa, according to a paper published this week.
Read MoreCountries can curve plastic pollution without a global treaty -report
International cooperation can achieve significant reductions in plastic production and its emissions despite the absence of a legally binding global treaty, according to a report.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Circular economy emerges as a missing link in GBF delivery, specialists say
Speakers from science, civil society, and government argued that circular economy approaches must become central to the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), warning that biodiversity goals will remain out of reach unless countries address the economic systems driving ecosystem degradation.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: OECMs to be integrated into UN protected areas framework after COP17
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could further integrate Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) into its framework at COP17, as governments show growing interest in using them to meet biodiversity targets, WWF told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreIndustry lobbies make almost a third of delegations to key fishing meetings, report says
Up to a third of government delegations to international fishing management meetings are industry representatives, with one almost reaching 45% in 2021, according to an NGO report released on Thursday.
Read MoreCMS COP15: BRIEFING – 133 parties back protection for 40 more migratory species, oceans in focus
Governments agreed on Sunday to expand protections for 40 migratory animal species and adopted a broad package of measures, with a strong focus on ocean conservation, including precautionary limits on deep-sea mining and recognition of marine flyways, marking the close of a major legally-binding UN treaty on conservation.
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