Biodiversity & Climate Crises Demand Transformative Change
Five top takeaways from a new report on biodiversity and climate change.
Biodiversity
Biden: Be Monumental for Public Lands & Ocean Conservation
Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Valerie Cleland & Kabir Green On his first day in office, President Biden signaled his commitment to our public lands and waters when he issued an executive order directing the Interior Department to review President Trump’s illegal rollbacks of three national monuments: Bears Ears, Northeast … [continued]
How Wolves & Other Wildlife Help Us Fight for the Climate
Courtesy of NRDC. By Jennifer Sherry This blog is the first in a four-part series that explores the role wildlife play in boosting ecosystem resilience — and how thriving biodiversity supports our own efforts to mitigate climate change. With what we’re learning about the way wildlife influences ecosystems and the carbon … [continued]
Despite Protecting Nature, Indigenous People Will Be Left Out Of UN Biodiversity Talks
By Jeremy Deaton Aiming to preserve 30 percent of the world’s land and water by 2030, dozens of countries will take part in a UN biodiversity conference later this year — but Indigenous people won’t have a seat at the table. Indigenous communities have repeatedly mobilized to block logging, mining … [continued]
We Are Losing The Earth’s Diversity Of Life Due To Economics
How long can we continue to assume that the biosphere is external to the human economy? What’s needed to reframe the natural world in relation to the many other assets we hold in our portfolios?
Signs of Hope for US Federal Climate Action in 2021
As we enthusiastically bid 2020 farewell, for many reasons 2021 is starting to feel like a year to be hopeful. While the rollout of vaccines signal an impending slow-down to the pandemic, recent activity in DC is offering a similar glimpse to solutions on the horizon for the climate crisis.
Audi’s New “Mission:Zero” — Protecting Natural Habitats & Biodiversity
Audi has been a member of the “Biodiversity in Good Company” initiative for a solid 5 years. In honor of that, Volkswagen Group has shared numerous projects to preserve biodiversity that have been implemented at Audi sites.
The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here’s How We Save It
The ocean plays a surprising role in fighting COVID-19. With death and infection numbers escalating daily, the World Health Organization has made it clear that countries need to do three things to successfully fight this pandemic: test, test and test.
The Global Biodiversity Crisis Just Got Personal
This post offers some wonderful short films embedded in the tweets regarding biodiversity. These could even be helpful for homeschool discussions. One is never too young to grasp biodiversity. It is time to educate your children about the importance, the critical, wonderful, importance of biodiversity.
Collective Action at the Crossroads: What to Watch in 2020
It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21.
Negotiations had been tough, and some leaders were more enthusiastic than others.
