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					<title>Is 20 millions tons enough? Scientists recommend plastic crackdown as oceans choke</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/is-20-millions-tons-enough-scientists-recommend-plastic-crackdown-as-oceans-choke/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2014 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Chris Samoray]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every year, 20 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans. In 2012, the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development dubbed marine plastic litter “a major environmental issue that the world must address,” and asked for management action by 2025. One group of researchers started early and was among the first to take [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every year, 20 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans. In 2012, the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development dubbed marine plastic litter “a major environmental issue that the world must address,” and asked for management action by 2025. One group of researchers started early and was among the first to take on the Rio +20 call to tackle marine plastic pollution, presenting a “Top Ten” list of recommendations ranging from international treaties to public education and awareness programs. “Plastic marine litter is far more than an aesthetic problem,” writes the team from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in a study published in UCLA’s Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs. “Increasing harm to marine wildlife and rising economic costs provide an enormous incentive to tackle the global plastic marine litter problem more aggressively.” The team suggests that international cooperation is among the most urgent action needed to better control marine plastic waste. One of their recommendations is an international treaty on par with the 1989 Montreal Protocol—an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer—that would employ strong monitoring, tracking and reporting practices, along with marine litter standards enforceable on a global scale. Marine debris litters a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Another international treaty the team proposes would ban some of the most common and damaging types of plastic pollution such as single-use plastic bags, foam food containers&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/is-20-millions-tons-enough-scientists-recommend-plastic-crackdown-as-oceans-choke/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25449</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cowards at Rio?: organizations decry &#8216;pathetic&#8217; agreement</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/cowards-at-rio-organizations-decry-pathetic-agreement/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jun 2012 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Latin America, Russia, South America, United States, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Consumption, Developing Countries, Development, Energy, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Industry, Marine Conservation, Mitigation, Oceans, Overpopulation, Politics, Population, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protests, Rio Summit, Solutions, Subsidies, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[A Malagasy girl. While Madagascar faces widespread deforestation and erosion, it is estimated that 70 percent of its people suffer from malnutrition. The Rio+20 Summit is attempting to tackle both environmental degradation and poverty, but civil groups say the agreement falls far short of what is needed. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. As world leaders [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A Malagasy girl. While Madagascar faces widespread deforestation and erosion, it is estimated that 70 percent of its people suffer from malnutrition. The Rio+20 Summit is attempting to tackle both environmental degradation and poverty, but civil groups say the agreement falls far short of what is needed. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. As world leaders head to Rio de Janeiro for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, environmental and poverty groups are denouncing the last-minute text agreed on by dignitaries as &#8220;pathetic,&#8221; (Greenpeace), a &#8220;damp squib&#8221; (Friends of the Earth), &#8220;a dead end&#8221; (Oxfam), and, if nothing changes, &#8220;a colossal waste of time&#8221; (WWF). &#8220;We were promised the &#8216;future we want&#8217; but are now being presented with a &#8216;common vision&#8217; of a polluter’s charter that will cook the planet, empty the oceans and wreck the rain forests,“ the head of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, said. &#8220;This is not a foundation on which to grow economies or pull people out of poverty, it’s the last will and testament of a destructive twentieth century development model.&#8221; Going into the UN&#8217;s largest summit ever, few had expected a world-rattling or even an ambitious agreement. In fact, expectations had been low for months. But changes to the text during the last week weakened everything from combating poverty to valuing biodiversity, causing universal condemnation from NGOS. Strong words not only came from Greenpeace, which is known for them, but also the more diplomatic World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Oxfam. &#8220;The revised text is a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/cowards-at-rio-organizations-decry-pathetic-agreement/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30733</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/rio20-and-economic-perils-in-europe-opportunity-for-linkage/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2012 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Richard Blaustein]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Greece, Spain, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Governance, Green, History, Mitigation, Politics, Poverty, Reforestation, Rio Summit, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[This month, momentous events will occur on the global scene that will set the tone for whether 2012 will be a hopeful year or one in which dislocations and disconnects are further exacerbated by political failings. The EU will decide on its fiscal and monetary union that hinges on Greece’s recent June election, which backed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This month, momentous events will occur on the global scene that will set the tone for whether 2012 will be a hopeful year or one in which dislocations and disconnects are further exacerbated by political failings. The EU will decide on its fiscal and monetary union that hinges on Greece’s recent June election, which backed the political party that wants to stay in the Euro zone, but insists on adjustments to the earlier-negotiated economic rescue package. In fact, this week the G-20 economic powers meet in Mexico to discuss extra measures to avoid financial contagion. With a strange sense of coincidence, these critical European and, indeed, global economic developments coincide with this week&#8217;s United Nations Earth Summit 2012, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro as it did twenty years ago when it launched the auspices for climate change actions and negotiations. The Earth Summit 2012, also referred to as Rio + 20, is not generating much hope this time around with a backdrop of increasingly dire warnings as to the ecological stability of the planet. For the first time in human history, a few locales in 2012 measured 400 parts per million (PPM) greenhouse gas-equivalence in the atmosphere, illustrating that the international community has not succeeded in abating the greenhouse gas emissions trajectory, even while serious ecological changes, such as glacial melting and oceans rising, have accelerated. In fact, the decisions surrounding the European economic union, the state of Greece, and the direction for Earth’s natural system as enunciated&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/rio20-and-economic-perils-in-europe-opportunity-for-linkage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30744</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/over-700-people-killed-defending-forest-and-land-rights-in-past-ten-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2012 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Brazil, Cambodia, Central Africa, Colombia, Congo Basin, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Latin America, Peru, Philippines, South America, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corruption, Crime, Developing Countries, Development, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Industry, Journalism, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Law, Logging, Mining, Murdered Activists, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Rio Summit, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Management, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva speaking at a TEDx Amazon in 2010, just a few months before he and his wife were assassinated for their activism. On May 24th, 2011, forest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, were gunned down in an ambush in the Brazilian [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva speaking at a TEDx Amazon in 2010, just a few months before he and his wife were assassinated for their activism. On May 24th, 2011, forest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, were gunned down in an ambush in the Brazilian state of Pará. A longtime activist, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva had made a name for himself for openly criticizing illegal logging in the state which is rife with deforestation. The killers even cut off the ears of the da Silvas, a common practice of assassins in Brazil to prove to their employers that they had committed the deed. Less than a year before he was murdered, da Silva warned in a TEDx Talk, &#8220;I could get a bullet in my head at any moment&#8230;because I denounce the loggers and charcoal producers.&#8221; In many parts of the world, standing up for one&#8217;s forest, land, or environment has become incredibly dangerous. A new briefing by Global Witness finds that 711 activists, journalists, and community members were murdered defending or investigating land and forest rights issues between 2002 and 2011. Such killings are on the rise: last year 106 people were killed over defending land and forest rights, the highest number in the past ten years. &#8220;This trend points to the increasingly fierce global battle for resources, and represents the sharpest of wake-up calls for delegates in Rio. Over one person a week is being murdered for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/over-700-people-killed-defending-forest-and-land-rights-in-past-ten-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30748</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists give world leaders &#8216;Fs&#8217; on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/scientists-give-world-leaders-fs-on-climate-change-biodiversity-and-desertification/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2012 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Deserts, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Mass Extinction, Mitigation, Politics, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of Egypt&#8217;s drylands. Desertification is a global problem, but a UN treaty on the issue has largely been ignored. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. It seems world leaders may need to retake environmental studies. As the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development opens, the scientific journal, Nature, has evaluated the progress made on three [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of Egypt&#8217;s drylands. Desertification is a global problem, but a UN treaty on the issue has largely been ignored. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. It seems world leaders may need to retake environmental studies. As the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development opens, the scientific journal, Nature, has evaluated the progress made on three treaties signed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992: climate change, biodiversity decline, and desertification. Unfortunately the publication gives progress on all three treaties an &#8216;F&#8217;, highlighting how little progress has been made on the global environmental crisis. Nature point out that world leaders have failed to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, which have actually increased by 45 percent between 1990 and 2010. Meanwhile while nations pledged to stem the loss in biodiversity by 2010, they failed to do so, and by all accounts overall biodiversity continues to decline. Finally a little-known treaty to stem desertification has not only failed to date, but has been largely ignored. Not all the grades, however, were &#8216;Fs&#8217;. While Nature failed world leaders for overall climate action, they gave them &#8216;As&#8217; on tracking greenhouse gas emissions and sinks, advancing climate research and policy, and establishing a diplomatic process. The problem is none of these actions have resulted in what really matters: cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In terms of biodiversity, Nature gave nations an A when it came to regulating genetically modified organisms, and a &#8216;C&#8217; for protecting ecosystems. However it gave nations a &#8216;D&#8217; on developing biodiversity targets and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/scientists-give-world-leaders-fs-on-climate-change-biodiversity-and-desertification/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30750</doi>				</item>
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					<title>WWF: biggest villain at Rio+20 is Canada</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/wwf-biggest-villain-at-rio20-is-canada/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2012 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Latin America, Mexico, North America, South America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Politics, Rio Summit, Subsidies, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama (left) meets with Canadian Prime Minister (right) Stephen Harper in 2009. WWF criticizes both nations for watering down negotiations at the Rio+20 Summit. Photo by: Pete Souza. Having sent a delegation to the United Nation&#8217;s Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the world&#8217;s biggest conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama (left) meets with Canadian Prime Minister (right) Stephen Harper in 2009. WWF criticizes both nations for watering down negotiations at the Rio+20 Summit. Photo by: Pete Souza. Having sent a delegation to the United Nation&#8217;s Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the world&#8217;s biggest conservation group, has recently declared their Heroes and Villains of Rio+20&#8212;so far. The NGO has strong words for the negotiating position of the U.S. and the major oil exporting countries (OPEC), but saves its harshest criticisms for Canada. &#8220;Canada has blocked progress so far in every realm at Rio +20. [&#8230;] This is a negotiation, and yet it’s not clear anyone from Canada has any mandate to move in any way on any issue. Canada appears disinterested in measures to safeguard the environment,&#8221; WWF writes. This is not a huge surprise since Canada has recently proven intractable at climate change negotiations, pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty, and slashed environmental protections at home. Critics contend that the Stephen Harper administration has placed the expansion of nation&#8217;s tar sands above all other domestic and international issues. At Rio+20 WWF says Canada is refusing to acknowledge differing responsibilities between industrial and poor countries and blocking any new funding sources. &#8220;Canada appears disinterested in measures to safeguard the environment,&#8221; WWF says, adding, &#8220;So, why are they here?&#8221; Next in line for Rio+20 villains, WWF points to the major oil exporting countries, or OPEC, for opposing the phasing out of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/wwf-biggest-villain-at-rio20-is-canada/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30751</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Experts: ignoring climate change at Rio+20 makes other goals &#8220;meaningless&#8221;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/experts-ignoring-climate-change-at-rio20-makes-other-goals-meaningless/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Mitigation, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Rio Summit, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkana children from northern Kenya, a region which suffers prolonged and extreme droughts. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The Climate Change Task Force (CCTF)&#8212;made up of 30 climate scientists, other experts and world leaders&#8212;warned today that sidelining climate change at the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development threatened progress on the conference&#8217;s other goals, which includes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkana children from northern Kenya, a region which suffers prolonged and extreme droughts. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The Climate Change Task Force (CCTF)&#8212;made up of 30 climate scientists, other experts and world leaders&#8212;warned today that sidelining climate change at the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development threatened progress on the conference&#8217;s other goals, which includes combating poverty and building economies that value nature. &#8220;I am very concerned and worried because the draft final document of the Rio+20 conference does not give proper attention to climate change,&#8221; says former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev in a press statement. &#8220;It looks like there is backsliding on this issue and that is what worries me so much because without addressing climate change, all of the other problems and tasks that will be set by the final document [of the Rio+20 conference] will not be accomplished and will become meaningless.&#8221; The CCTF has released a 33 page report entitled Action to Face the Urgent Realities of Climate Change, which argues that the world must urgently make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to the inevitable effects of global warming. &#8220;The impacts of climate change are intensifying across the world: unprecedented temperatures, glacier melt, changing rainfall patterns, droughts, floods, storms, fires and widening desertification are degrading the fragile ecosystems of the planet. They are devastating the lives and livelihoods of millions of people today and undermining prospects for progress, stability and peace in the future,&#8221; the report reads. The CCTF further argues&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/experts-ignoring-climate-change-at-rio20-makes-other-goals-meaningless/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30753</doi>				</item>
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					<title>WWF: only Brazil can save Rio+20 summit</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/wwf-only-brazil-can-save-rio20-summit/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2012 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[WWF is calling upon Brazil &#8220;to play politics as well as they play football&#8221; to ensure the Rio+20 summit produces a meaningful outcome. “The Rio negotiations are a mess right now – though there’s hope on the horizon as Brazil prepares to take the lead on this process,” said Lasse Gustavsson, head of WWF’s delegation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[WWF is calling upon Brazil &#8220;to play politics as well as they play football&#8221; to ensure the Rio+20 summit produces a meaningful outcome. “The Rio negotiations are a mess right now – though there’s hope on the horizon as Brazil prepares to take the lead on this process,” said Lasse Gustavsson, head of WWF’s delegation in Rio+20, in a statement. &#8220;In the coming days, there’s going to be a lot of pressure on Brazil as hosts to pull this meeting together so governments here don’t go home with their tails between their legs.&#8221; Gustavsson cited Canada as a chief obstacle to progress at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development. “Canada is not properly valuing nature &#8211; both at home and in the global commons. In the same week that Canada puts forward a national bill to delete its remaining climate change laws, erode fisheries laws, and weaken its environmental assessment rules, Canada is now exporting these regressive actions and currently blocking progress at Rio+20.&#8221; “Canada is blocking negotiating text that includes principles of basic sustainable development, protecting high seas biodiversity, and a commitment to ending fossil fuel subsidies.&#8221; WWF says it has five goals for Rio: the establishment of sustainable development goals modeled after the Millennium Development Goals; a framework for valuing natural wealth alongside economic and social indicators; reduction in &#8220;environmentally harmful&#8221; subsidies, especially for fossil fuels; improved ocean governance; and a stronger UN Environment Program (UNEP). Expectations for the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development are low. Fearing failure&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/wwf-only-brazil-can-save-rio20-summit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Rio, 5 big companies to launch initiative to boost demand for REDD+ carbon credits</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/in-rio-5-big-companies-to-launch-initiative-to-boost-demand-for-redd-carbon-credits/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2012 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, climate finance, Environment, Forest Carbon, Green, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Redd, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon rainforest. Five large corporations have launched an effort to boost demand for carbon credits from &#8220;high quality&#8221; Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects in tropical countries. Insurance giant Allianz, French retail conglomerate PPR, energy companies Eneco and Entega, and South African bank Nedbank have pledged to buy millions of dollars in emissions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon rainforest. Five large corporations have launched an effort to boost demand for carbon credits from &#8220;high quality&#8221; Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects in tropical countries. Insurance giant Allianz, French retail conglomerate PPR, energy companies Eneco and Entega, and South African bank Nedbank have pledged to buy millions of dollars in emissions reductions credits generated by REDD+ projects that have been certified under both the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCB). Forest carbon credit providers include BioCarbon Pty Ltd. (Ecuador), ERA (Democratic Republic of Congo), Forest Carbon Offsets (Belize), The Surui Project (Brazil), Wildlife Alliance (Cambodia), Wildlife Conservation Society (Madagascar), and Wildlife Works (Kenya). The initiative, dubbed Code REDD, requires carbon project developers to sign a code of ethics as well as achieve certification under VCS and CCB. By publicly announcing the intent to purchase a large number of credits, Code REDD aims to push other companies to voluntarily commit to offset some of their CO2 emissions with forest carbon credits while steering them away from dodgy REDD+ projects. &#8220;Reducing your carbon footprint is not a UN obligation,&#8221; said Mike Korchinsky, Founder of the Code REDD Campaign and CEO of Wildlife Works, a REDD+ project developer. &#8220;It’s a global responsibility.&#8221; REDD+ aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests. Deforestation and forest degradation account for more than 10 percent of global emissions from human activities. While the concept of reducing deforestation is widely supported, the details of REDD+ remain&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/in-rio-5-big-companies-to-launch-initiative-to-boost-demand-for-redd-carbon-credits/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30761</doi>				</item>
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					<title>World failing to meet promises on the oceans</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/world-failing-to-meet-promises-on-the-oceans/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2012 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Illegal Fishing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Overfishing, Regulations, Rio Summit, Subsidies, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Industrial tuna fishing has pushed some species to the edge of extinction. Photo by: Alex Hoffard/Greenpeace. Despite a slew of past pledges and agreements, the world&#8217;s governments have made little to no progress on improving management and conservation in the oceans, according to a new paper in Science. The paper is released just as the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Industrial tuna fishing has pushed some species to the edge of extinction. Photo by: Alex Hoffard/Greenpeace. Despite a slew of past pledges and agreements, the world&#8217;s governments have made little to no progress on improving management and conservation in the oceans, according to a new paper in Science. The paper is released just as the world leaders are descending on Rio de Janeiro for Rio+20, or the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, where one of the most watched issues is expected to be ocean policy, in part because the summit is expected to make little headway on other global environmental issues such as climate change and deforestation. But the new Science paper warns that past pledges on marine conservation have moved too slowly or stagnated entirely. &#8220;Our analysis shows that almost every commitment made by governments to protect the oceans has not been achieved. If these international processes are to be taken seriously, governments must be held accountable and any future commitments must come with clear plans for implementation and a process to evaluate success or failure,&#8221; Jonathan Baillie, co-author and Director of Conservation at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) who is currently attending the Rio+20 conference, said in a press release. Assessing pledges on five marine environmental issues&#8212;improving fisheries management, eliminating harmful subsidies, combating illegal and unregulated fishing, setting up marine protected areas, and stemming biodiversity loss&#8212;the paper found little to crow about. The researchers point out that the global fish catch is between 17-112 percent higher than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/world-failing-to-meet-promises-on-the-oceans/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30764</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Australia sets aside 40 percent of its waters for protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/australia-sets-aside-40-percent-of-its-waters-for-protection/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2012 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia and Great Barrier Reef]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Energy, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Fossil Fuels, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Parks, Protected Areas, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In an announcement to coincide with the beginnings of the UN&#8217;s Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, Australia has announced ambitious plans to protect 3.1 million square kilometers (1.19 million square miles) of its ocean, including the Coral Sea. If enacted, the proposition will [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In an announcement to coincide with the beginnings of the UN&#8217;s Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, Australia has announced ambitious plans to protect 3.1 million square kilometers (1.19 million square miles) of its ocean, including the Coral Sea. If enacted, the proposition will increase Australia&#8217;s marine protected areas from 27 to 60, covering about 40 percent of Australia&#8217;s waters. &#8220;This is the largest network of marine reserves anywhere in the world,&#8221; Environment Minister Tony Burke said. &#8220;What we&#8217;ve done is effectively create a national parks estate in the ocean. But, I think the jewel in the crown in the whole thing would have to be the Coral Sea. And, this is the area that sort of extends out from the Great Barrier Reef marine park right to the edge of Commonwealth waters.&#8221; The new reserves will not mean full protection every where, but includes tougher regulations on fisheries as well as bans on oil and gas exploitation. The government said it is developing compensation packages for fishermen that will likely total around a $100 million, but the fisheries industry is not happy about the announcement. &#8220;The real issue here today is that that package should have been announced with the boundaries themselves,&#8221; Brian Jeffriess, of the Commonwealth Fisheries Association, told ABC. He warned that the new restrictions could devastate fishermen and coastal communities. Others have said the restriction will raise the local price of seafood. The government has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/australia-sets-aside-40-percent-of-its-waters-for-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30765</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Featured video: the Rio speech heard round the world</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/featured-video-the-rio-speech-heard-round-the-world/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2012 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Poverty, Rio Summit, and Videos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle ranches carve into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. As world leaders, officials, NGOs, businesses, and experts gather in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, or more well known as Rio+20, it might be useful to look at the landmark Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle ranches carve into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. As world leaders, officials, NGOs, businesses, and experts gather in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, or more well known as Rio+20, it might be useful to look at the landmark Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which helped propel environmental concerns around the world. The most noteworthy speech during that meeting was made by a twelve year old Canadian girl, Severn Suzuki. However the global environmental situation has not improved since 1992, but worsened. A recent report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) found that the world has made significant progress on only 4 of 90 environmental issues. Some problems, such as coral reef health and wetlands, have actually deteriorated. While many major issues, like climate change and biodiversity loss, have seen little to no progress. The UN is pushing Rio+20 as another chance to move forward on increasing environmental protections, reducing global poverty, and transforming economies to take nature and human well-being into account.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/featured-video-the-rio-speech-heard-round-the-world/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30766</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Should we devote 2014 to wilderness?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/should-we-devote-2014-to-wilderness/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jun 2012 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Services, Green, Interviews, Parks, Protected Areas, Rio Summit, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Meandering river in the lowlands of Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau once said, &#8220;In wilderness is the preservation of the world.&#8221; Anyone who has spent time in vast untouched wild space likely understands Thoreau&#8217;s comment. Yet wilderness everywhere&#8212;already vanishing&#8212;remains imperiled by a variety of threats. To draw [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Meandering river in the lowlands of Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau once said, &#8220;In wilderness is the preservation of the world.&#8221; Anyone who has spent time in vast untouched wild space likely understands Thoreau&#8217;s comment. Yet wilderness everywhere&#8212;already vanishing&#8212;remains imperiled by a variety of threats. To draw attention to the importance of the keeping wilderness in the world, PAN Parks, an organization that works to protect wilderness in Europe, has proposed to make 2014 the International Year of Wilderness. The group has gathered a number of signatories and approached the UN&#8217;s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the idea. They hope, as well, to raise the idea at the upcoming UN Rio+20 Summit on Sustainability. Mongabay.com recently spoke to PAN Parks Executive Director, Zoltan Kun, about the proposal, why wilderness is important, and what people could do to support the initiative. INTERVIEW WITH ZOLTAN KUN Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Mongabay: How do define wilderness? Zoltan Kun: There are various technical definitions of wilderness and&#8212;as wilderness is a human concept of nature&#8212;there are even more interpretation of these definitions. We at PAN Parks Foundation use a definition, which was developed and agreed by the European Wilderness working Group in April 2012: Wilderness areas are large unmodified or slightly modified natural areas, governed by natural processes, without human intervention, infrastructure or permanent habitation, which should be protected and managed so as to preserve their natural condition and to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/should-we-devote-2014-to-wilderness/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/ten-african-nations-pledge-to-transform-their-economies-to-take-nature-into-account/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jun 2012 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Botswana, East Africa, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation Finance, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Natural Capital, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[African elephants at Chobe River in Botswana. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. Last month ten African nations, led by Botswana, pledged to incorporate &#8220;natural capital&#8221; into their economies. Natural capital, which seeks to measure the economic worth of the services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity&#8212;for example pollination, clean water, and carbon&#8212;is a nascent, but growing, method [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[African elephants at Chobe River in Botswana. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. Last month ten African nations, led by Botswana, pledged to incorporate &#8220;natural capital&#8221; into their economies. Natural capital, which seeks to measure the economic worth of the services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity&#8212;for example pollination, clean water, and carbon&#8212;is a nascent, but growing, method to curtail environmental damage and ensure more sustainable development. Dubbed the Gaborone Declaration, the pledge was signed by Botswana, Liberia, Namibia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania following a two day summit. &#8220;We leave this Summit with a strong and robust commitment to give life to the good ideas that came from the debates, and to scale up the commitments contained in the Gaborone Declaration across the whole African continent and indeed the wider world,&#8221; Ian Khama, President of Botswana, said at the end of the summit. The signing of the pledge came less than a month before the UN&#8217;s Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, which marks twenty years since the landmark environmental summit in Rio in 1992. The Gaborone Declaration declares that &#8220;the historical pattern of natural resources exploitation has failed to promote sustained growth, environmental integrity and improved social capital.&#8221; Noting that the Africa&#8217;s people and economy are imperiled by ecosystem destruction , the leaders pledge to protect ecosystems and biodiversity from &#8220;overuse and degradation.&#8221; To do so, they commit to adding natural capital into &#8220;national accounting and corporate planning.&#8221; In addition, the ten countries pledged to transition major sectors&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/ten-african-nations-pledge-to-transform-their-economies-to-take-nature-into-account/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Scientists: if we don&#8217;t act now we&#8217;re screwed</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/scientists-if-we-dont-act-now-were-screwed/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Jun 2012 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Biodiversity, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Consumption, Deforestation, Ecology, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Services, Ethics, Extinction, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Human Rights, Impact Of Climate Change, Law, Marine, Mass Extinction, Mitigation, Oceans, Overpopulation, Philosophy, Politics, Pollution, Population, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Rio Summit, Saving Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Science, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of the infamous Río Huaypetue gold mine in the Peruvian Amazon. This remote but massive gold mine is known for the destruction of primary rainforest, widespread mercury pollution, and child and slave labor. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Scientists warn that the Earth may be reaching a planetary tipping point due to a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aerial view of the infamous Río Huaypetue gold mine in the Peruvian Amazon. This remote but massive gold mine is known for the destruction of primary rainforest, widespread mercury pollution, and child and slave labor. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Scientists warn that the Earth may be reaching a planetary tipping point due to a unsustainable human pressures, while the UN releases a new report that finds global society has made significant progress on only four environmental issues out of ninety in the last twenty years. Climate change, overpopulation, overconsumption, and ecosystem destruction could lead to a tipping point that causes planetary collapse, according to a new paper in Nature by 22 scientists. The collapse may lead to a new planetary state that scientists say will be far harsher for human well-being, let alone survival. &#8220;The odds are very high that the next global state change will be extremely disruptive to our civilizations. Remember, we went from being hunter-gathers to being moon-walkers during one of the most stable and benign periods in all of Earth&#8217;s history,&#8221; co-author Arne Mooers with Simon Fraser University explains in a press release. If it all sounds apocalyptic, the scientists say it probably should. &#8220;In a nutshell, humans have not done anything really important to stave off the worst because the social structures for doing something just aren&#8217;t there,&#8221; says Mooers. &#8220;My colleagues who study climate-induced changes through the earth&#8217;s history are more than pretty worried. In fact, some are terrified.&#8221; A new bleaker world?&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/scientists-if-we-dont-act-now-were-screwed/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30806</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists to Rio+20: save biodiversity to save ourselves</title>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2012 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Mass Extinction, Plants, Rio Summit, Science, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[An as yet unidentified species of gecko on the island of Java, Indonesia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. World leaders need to do much more to protect the Earth&#8217;s millions of species for the services they provide, according to a new scientific consensus statement in Nature based on over 1,000 research papers. Written by 17 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An as yet unidentified species of gecko on the island of Java, Indonesia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. World leaders need to do much more to protect the Earth&#8217;s millions of species for the services they provide, according to a new scientific consensus statement in Nature based on over 1,000 research papers. Written by 17 top ecologists, the statement points out that despite growing knowledge of the importance of biodiversity for human well-being and survival, species continue to vanish at alarming rates. The statement comes just weeks before the UN&#8217;S Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, which is supposed to chart a path for a less impoverished and more equitable world including an emphasis on greater environmental protections, but which has been marred by a lack of ambition. &#8220;We need to take biodiversity loss far more seriously&#8212;from individuals to international governing bodies&#8212;and take greater action to prevent further losses of species,&#8221; said lead author Bradley Cardinale, with the University of Michigan, in a press release. &#8220;This is a consensus statement by experts who agree that loss of Earth&#8217;s wild species will be harmful to the world&#8217;s ecosystems and may harm society by reducing ecosystem services that are essential to human health and prosperity.&#8221; Cardinale and colleagues found that research over the past two decades has proven again and again that biodiversity is key for functioning and abundant ecosystems, which supply humanity with food and commodities. For example, the scientists write that the evidence shows that genetic diversity boosts crop yields, fisheries&#8217;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/scientists-to-rio20-save-biodiversity-to-save-ourselves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30810</doi>				</item>
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