Representatives from the shipping industry and environmental NGOs exposed the gaps between their understandings of where the shipping industry currently stands on decarbonising and where it needs to get to.
On a panel together at the global maritime environmental congress (gmec) as part of SMM Digital, there were few areas of common ground between NGO and shipping panellists.
One clear flashpoint was the IMO’s initial GHG strategy and its goals of reducing GHG emissions per transport work by at least 40% by 2030 compared to 2008, and the 2050 target of reducing total annual emissions from shipping by at least 50% compared to 2008 levels.
Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui Attends Online Seminar on Ecological Environment Protection of Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation
2021/02/03
On February 2, 2021, Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui attended and addressed the opening ceremony of the Online Seminar on Ecological Environment Protection of Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation hosted by the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee Wu Yingjie made welcome remarks and Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Qizhala delivered a keynote speech. The opening ceremony was also attended and addressed by Special Adviser for Climate Change Affairs of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Xie Zhenhua, former United Nations Secretary-General and Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia Ban Ki-moon, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Michael Rudd, Chairman of the Pakistan Senate s Defense and Defense Production Committee Mushahid
New approaches needed to protect biodiversity as Aichi Targets go unmet
by Liz Kimbrough on 3 February 2021
The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are an ambitious set of global goals aimed at protecting and conserving global biodiversity.
In a recently published paper, a team of international researchers offer suggestions for how the newest version of the Aichi targets, referred to as the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, can be implemented effectively.
The authors suggest strengthened accountability for parties participating in the Aichi targets similar to the Paris Agreement.
Researchers also point to the need for greater resources directed toward biodiversity, more research about biodiversity and how to protect it, and better review mechanisms for Aichi commitments at the national level.
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam has said that monitoring of forest resources was pivotal for containing deforestation and forest land.
Monitoring system to stem forest loss launched
Islamabad
February 2, 2021
Islamabad:Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam has said the effective monitoring of forests is imperative for containing deforestation and forestland degradation and taming global warming-caused climate change. There has been large-scale deforestation and land degradation in the country over last several years for want of effective forest monitoring system, which helps detect logging operations in forest areas and natural habitats of outstanding significance or critical importance, in a matter of minutes, he told the launching ceremony of the National Forest Monitoring System here on Monday.