CONSERVATION NEWS
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The year ahead: Funding critical commitments to nature
By Mary Kate McCoy
January 26, 2023
The recent United Nations biodiversity and climate summits ended with major commitments for stemming climate change and stopping the loss of biodiversity. As nations now turn to implementing these ambitious goals, there’s one persistent sticking point: funding.
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News spotlight: UN report concludes climate adaptation is 'too little, too slow’
By Max Marcovitch
November 7, 2022
Climate risks are growing, but global efforts to adapt to them are not keeping pace. That’s the big-picture takeaway from a new United Nations report, which underscores the funding needed by developing nations to reduce their exposure to climate disasters.
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Climate Week: Youth, morality and the fate of the Amazon
By Bruno Vander Velde
September 24, 2019
Monday‘s Climate Week roundup: France commits US$ 100 million to a fund to protect the Amazon, religious leaders discuss the ethics of conservation and scientists declare a “planetary emergency.”
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Climate Week: Economics, forests take center stage
By Bruno Vander Velde
September 23, 2019
Sunday’s Climate Week round-up: Experts discuss the economics of climate change, restoring forests are a cost-effective climate solution and nature is “more valuable alive than it is dead.”
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Amid din of global climate debate, silence is golden
By Sophie Bertazzo
June 6, 2019
In interview with Elle magazine, climate lead Shyla Raghav lays out how she avoids burnout and remains optimistic.
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