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Dubai, 9 December 2023 – Close to $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature from both public and private sector sources - equivalent to roughly 7 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - according to the latest State of Finance for Nature report released today at COP28 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners.  

Close to $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature.

Minister of the Environment, Adrian Forde in discussion with Chief of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Biodiversity and Land Degradation Unit in UN Env ...

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UNWTO centred the discussions on tourism in a special Tourism Ocean Action side event of the Conference, held this week in Lisbon. Organized alongside the One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme and in collaboration with the governments of Portugal and Kenya, the discussions highlighted the strong incentive that tourism provides for ocean conservation.

Wildfires are one of the most obvious symptoms of climate change.

"Plastic waste is choking the seas," the U.N. chief warned leaders as he pushes for a pollution pact modeled on the 2015 Paris climate accord.