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The Conservation and Protection Authority (CEPA) budget of K55 million for 2018 to 2028 is aimed at setting up conservation areas and protected ecosystems around Papua New Guinea.
ACP MEAs Monthly Information Digest: Vol 2, Issue 4. April 2022
The key highlights of this month issue include:
- Outcome of the Geneva biodiversity conference
- Blue Deal for economic recovery and sustainable growth
- Roles of indigenous communities in biodiversity protection
- Rise in online wildlife trade
- Financing chemicals and waste management
- Plastic taxes as new environmental policies
- Regionalizing UNEA 5.2 plastic resolution in East Africa
- Promoting the Science-Policy-Society Interface of synthetic biology
- Launching ACP MEAs 3 Youth Engagement and Training Initiative in Europe
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A beleaguered global deal to save the environment got a financial boost last week when Germany announced that it was upping its funding for international biodiversity conservation to €1.5 billion (US$1.49 billion) a year — an increase of €0.87 billion — making it the largest national financial pl
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Subject to overfishing, marine megafauna – such as sharks, rays, and turtles – are among the world’s most threatened species groups. Somewhat paradoxically, these species also have widespread appeal.
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A new online platform has been launched to raise awareness and inspire action by non-government organisations, local communities and businesses to protect, sustainably manage and restore areas of land and water...Today’s new Nature Commitments Platform, launching in the wake of the Inte
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A pledge by nine grantmakers to give $5 billion to conservation efforts that address threats to biodiversity and to help curb climate change is taking a different approach than philanthropy has embraced in the past — one that may require those organizations to do things differently. Jeff Bez
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Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate.
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This month, ADB issued its first blue bond, driving forward its ambitious plan to build sustainable blue economies and to use the financial markets to scale up ocean solutions...In 2019, ADB launched its Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and Pacific region
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Raising huge new sums of "nature" finance to better protect the planet's ailing biodiversity will have no significant impact unless the underlying economic rules now driving environmental losses are shifted, economists warned on Tuesday.
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This survey is gathering MPA practitioners’ questions on three of the biggest challenges facing the field: effectiveness, financing, and climate change and is the first part of a project by OCTO, UNEP, the University of Queensland, and partners to build practical, evidence-based, ‘