16/09/2020
(UN News)* — The northern hemisphere experienced its warmest August ever, the World Meteorological Organization (
WMO) said on Tuesday
[15 September 2020], amid searing conditions that have contributed to devastating wildfires on the west coast of the United States.
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San Francisco Fire Department | More than 78,000 acres of forest in the Sierra mountains in California has been lost due to wildfires.
“The northern hemisphere just had its hottest summer on record”, said Clare Nullis, WMO spokesperson.
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16/09/2020
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A decade may sound like a long time. But scientists say that these next ten years will count most in the fight to avert climate change and the loss of millions of species. Here are ten actions in the strategy of the UN Decade that can build a #GenerationRestoration.
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16/09/2020
We have known for a long time that biodiversity, and the services it provides, have been in decline. It is on this background that ten years ago, the international community adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. The goal of the plan, and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets, was to halt biodiversity loss and ensure that ecosystems continued to provide essential services.

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16/09/2020
Montreal, 15 September 2020 (UN Environment)* – Despite encouraging progress in several areas, the natural world is suffering badly and getting worse. Eight transformative changes are, therefore, urgently needed to ensure human wellbeing and save the planet, the UN warns in a major report.
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The report comes as the COVID-19 pandemic challenges people to rethink their relationship with nature, and to consider the profound consequences to their own wellbeing and survival that can result from continued biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems.
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16/09/2020
(UN News)* — The continued degradation of the environment is increasing the likelihood of diseases spreading from animals to humans, warns a UN report on biodiversity, released on Tuesday [15 September 2020].
ILRI/Barbara Wieland | Testing sheep for diseases in Bako, Ethiopia.
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The fifth edition of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report, published by the
Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), provides an authoritative overview of the state of nature worldwide.
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