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We are ‘gobbling up nature’: UN urges countries to restore 1bn hectares of land

Press Release – UN News An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planets biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) and UN Environment Programmes ( … An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...

UN Security Council press elements after UK requested briefing on the risks posed by the Safer oil tanker in Houthi controlled territory of Yemen

A globe-trotting adventurer The Arctic tern is a great traveller, and spends most of the year on the move, with long periods over the ocean. Its breeding grounds cover both the northern and southern polar regions. In Europe, during the summer months, it can be found from Brittany in the south, to Iceland, Greenland, and Svalbard in the north. Come autumn, the terns head south in the direction of Antarctica where they stay during the northern winter. However, they don’t fly directly from north...

Friday, 4 June 2021, 6:19 am An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food security, they added. In a new ...

Planned mission to repair leaky Safer tanker has been repeatedly pushed back by rebels

A total investment of $8.1 trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the State of Finance for Nature report released today. This amounts to $536 billion a year by 2050. The report finds that annual investments in nature-based solutions will ...

Over 150 of the 193 UN member nations already recognise the right to a healthy environment, through constitutions, general legislation or regional human rights treaties.

Geneva: A total investment in nature of USD 8.1 trillion is required between now and 2050 – while annual investment should reach USD 536 billion annually by 2050 – in order to successfully tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity, and land degrad

Read more about Investing less than 1% of world GDP in nature can tackle climate change on Business Standard. An investment of $8.1 trn in nature is required over three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the State of Finance for Nature report