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Will the commitments made during the “super year of the ocean” help pursue a path for a healthy ocean?

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Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has called for the international community to prioritise funding for ocean action, to address challenges such as rapidly depleting fish stocks, dangerous levels of plastic pollution and disappearing coral reefs.

February 3, 2021 Trees are seen by the private sector as an attractive and accessible offset, easy to measure, easy to invest in and easy to promote. Photo by Jacob Lund on Shutterstock. If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low-priority issues the next. In 2020 all sectors — business, government and NGO — saw their best laid plans unravel or become irreleva...

Date Time Our global food system is primary driver of biodiversity loss A new Chatham House report highlights that the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. Biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate, unless we change the way we produce food. Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations. The new report calls for an urgent reform of food systems, suggesting three interdependent actions: changing global dietary...