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Biodiversity
Show Me The Money
istockphoto.com The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to the stalemate on money at CoP 16. A 2020 publication, Financing Nature: Closing the Global Biodiversity Financing Gap, estimated at least US$700 Billion of investments was required in the lead up to 2030 to come close to implementing projects at the scale needed to reverse biodiversity loss. So far, the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) has received only US$163 million from 12 contributors to implement…
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Biodiversity
The Legal Trade In Wild Species: Deadly By Design
Carolyn Smith | istockphoto.com The contradictions in Colombia hosting the CDB COP16 are stark. This isn’t only about the thousands of army and police officers providing security for the event;…
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Biodiversity
Indigenous Groups Are Sceptical Of CBD CoP16. Good, They Should Be.
istockphoto.com Highlighting what to monitor during CoP 16, one article asks, “Will Indigenous groups play a role in decisions?” going on to say, “The importance of the Indigenous role in…
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Biodiversity
The Problem Of Semantics When Creating Protected Areas
Alistair Burls | istockphoto.com Undoubtedly the Federal Labor government needed a headline grabber at the start of the Nature Positive Summit, after what has been a dismal first term for…
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Biodiversity
Distraction Breeds Inaction – We Get What We Value
gorodenkoff | istockphoto.com The decision by two of the world’s biggest asset managers to quit an investor group set up in 2017 to nudge companies to a net zero commitment…
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Biodiversity
Hubris And Conforming: The Dangerous Duo Killing The Natural World
Crimes can’t be solved when key suspects are taken out of the frame. This is driven home when true crime investigations are re-examined, as is the case with 2019 documentary,…
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Biodiversity
It’s Official: 9 Out Of 10 Primates Think Private Finance For Nature Is Bollocks
Recent years have brought about a lot of talk about private investment in nature and many new terms have been coined – green bonds, blended finance, payments for ecosystem services…
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Biodiversity
Sustainability Claims Ripped To Shreds
Andersastphoto | Dreamstime.com Over the last 40 years, the fossil fuel industry “has perpetrated a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar disinformation, propaganda and lobbying campaign to delay climate action”. Key to these…
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Biodiversity
Nature Positive La La Land
nurulanga | istockphoto.com On 6 September 2023 it was announced that 27 of the world’s largest nature conservation organisations, institutes, business and finance coalitions have joined forces to launch a…
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