The Secretariat of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) strengthen cooperation on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development

December 19, 2016 / by Jason Patlis / Africa, Climate, Environment, Global News, Government, United Nations Environment Programme

Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – New agreement paves the way for enhanced cooperation between UN Environment and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states on environment and climate change – UN Environment working closely with the ACP Secretariat to support a more coherent and integrated approach towards the implementation of the sustainable […]

Nicholas Hoult joins WWF in Nepal to learn about rhino conservation

December 19, 2016 / by Jason Patlis / Africa, Asia, Conservation, Global News, Species, World Wildlife Foundation

Published by the World Wildlife Fund It’s mid-afternoon in the small, but mighty Himalayan country of Nepal, and actor Nicholas Hoult gets a wet kiss from an orphaned, baby rhino. Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation found the stray, who is now in their care. Hoult recently traveled to Chitwan National Park in Nepal to learn […]

Jordan Downs Residents Win One, But Want Full Data on Toxics

December 9, 2016 / by Ramya Sivasubramanian / Africa, Conservation, Lands, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Resources, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Residents of the Jordan Downs public housing community in Watts, Los Angeles, recently achieved a major win with their landlord, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). Living adjacent to a brownfield, which (as we’ve previously blogged) was found to contain dangerous levels of heavy metals […]

African Countries Ban Dirty Diesel Imports from Europe

December 8, 2016 / by News Editor / Africa, Environment, Environmental News Service, Europe, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service ABUJA, Nigeria, December 8, 2016 (ENS) – Five more West African countries have agreed to ban the import of Europe’s dirty high-sulfur diesel fuel, a move that will slash vehicle emissions and help an estimated 250 million people breathe cleaner air. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/12/08/african-countries-ban-dirty-diesel-imports-from-europe/

Water and Climate Change: Are Humans Prepared to Adapt to Growing Challenge?

December 7, 2016 / by Camilo Huneeus Guzman / Academia, Africa, Climate, Industry, Yale School of Forestry

Published by the Yale School of Forestry The link between water and climate change is palpable, yet it had never been addressed during a meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) until this year in Morocco. On this occasion, an entire day — fostered by the… Read the full article at: http://environment.yale.edu/blog/2016/12/water-and-climate-change-the-first-water-day-at-a-cop/

Communities come together to restore mangroves

December 5, 2016 / by Jason Patlis / Africa, Asia, Climate, Conservation, Global News, Oceans, Species, World Wildlife Foundation

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Mangroves protect and stabilize coastlines – particularly important as climate change brings more extreme storms and increased wave action. They also act as sinks, sequestering 3–5 percent more carbon per unit area than any other forest system. But mangroves are disappearing, cleared for urban and tourism development or felled for […]

Can Noise Pollution Affect the Way Mongooses Sniff Out Their Enemies?

December 1, 2016 / by Jason Bittel / Africa, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Oceans, Resources, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund smalljude/Flickr Sound is a powerful weapon. Flash-bang grenades can stun and disorient unruly mobs, and loud music is sometimes played to weaken detainees before interrogations. Even innocuous-seeming sounds can drive a person mad if they go on long enough. When the United States invaded Panama in 1989, Manuel […]

Celebrating the biggest conservation wins of 2016

December 1, 2016 / by Jason Patlis / Africa, Asia, Climate, Conservation, Global News, North America, Oceans, South America, Species, World Wildlife Foundation

Published by the World Wildlife Fund In the waning days of 2016, it’s important to pause for a moment to celebrate all we’ve accomplished for wildlife, people, and the planet in the past 12 months. Together, we pushed for new regulations to help shut down the illegal elephant ivory trade within our borders and to stop […]

Court Upholds NRDC-Sponsored California Ivory Ban!

November 28, 2016 / by Elly Pepper / Africa, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Resources, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Ivory store window in San Francisco (C) Daniel Stiles (2015) The Los Angeles Superior Court has upheld California’s ivory ban (Assembly Bill 96; now California Fish and Game Code Section 2022) against a lawsuit brought by the Ivory Education Institute, which claimed the law was unconstitutional. NRDC, which […]

Empowering Geneticists in Marine Spatial Protection

November 22, 2016 / by Francine Kershaw / Africa, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, Oceans, Resources, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund By Francine Kershaw and Grace Goldberg (originally published November 17th, 2016, on OpenChannels) Genetic data is often overlooked and geneticists are rarely at the top of the marine planning party guest list. This results in a significant gap in the protection of evolutionary processes, that are essential for the long-term […]

Puget Sound Braces for the Worst: A Green Crab Plague

November 21, 2016 / by Becca Cudmore / Africa, Australia, Climate, Conservation, Europe, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Oceans, Resources, South America, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund CSIRO We’ve been expecting them, the green crabs. Scientists have watched the European invaders creep up the Pacific Coast for decades, and now they’ve finally arrived in Puget Sound, off northwestern Washington. Volunteers found Puget’s first green crab in a baited trap on August 30, and five more […]

COP22: Nations Hold Fast to Paris Climate Accord

November 21, 2016 / by News Editor / Africa, Climate, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service MARRAKECH, Morocco, November 20, 2016 (ENS) – Countries fast-tracked the political and practical aims of the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement and accelerated global climate action at the 2016 UN climate change conference that concluded in the early hours of Saturday morning in Marrakech. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/11/20/cop22-nations-hold-fast-to-paris-climate-accord/

New anti-poaching technology leads to dozens of arrests of wildlife criminals in Africa

November 21, 2016 / by Jason Patlis / Africa, Conservation, Global News, Species, World Wildlife Foundation

Published by the World Wildlife Fund Three ghostly figures march at a steady pace from left to right across a grainy screen—a small caravan of poachers on the hunt for wildlife in the Maasai Mara reserve in Africa. The footage shows them moving confidently under the cover of night; the protected area encompasses more than 500 […]

Momentum Builds to Save Arctic and Atlantic Oceans for Good

November 18, 2016 / by Niel Lawrence / Africa, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Oceans, Resources, Species

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In a major, end-of-term accomplishment, President Obama has taken a decisive stand to keep drill rigs out of our publicly-owned Arctic Ocean, building on his past decision to drop Atlantic leasing as well. His administration’s just-issued five year offshore oil and gas leasing […]

Latin America Green News Special Report: COP22 | Marrakesh

November 18, 2016 / by Maria Martinez / Africa, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Oceans, Resources, South America

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. November 7 – 18, 2016 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at COP22 Gobierno de Chile COP22: Full steam ahead on climate action The 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations […]

Business Demands Trump Keep USA in Climate Pact

November 17, 2016 / by News Editor / Africa, Climate, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service MARRAKECH, Morocco, November 16, 2016 (ENS) – More than 365 businesses and investors from Fortune 500 firms to family-owned businesses sent a message today to President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump reaffirming their support for the historic Paris Agreement on Climate and the need to accelerate the transition […]

Making Trump Feel the Heat

November 14, 2016 / by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz / Africa, Air Quality, Asia, Australia, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Resources

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund From President-elect Trump’s campaign statements to the choices of his advisors, we have every reason to be very concerned about his intentions when it comes to climate change. It is likely that we will be facing a Trump administration attempt to reverse the climate progress achieved by President […]

Being World Climate Pariah Won’t Help Trump Meet Other Goals

November 14, 2016 / by David Doniger / Africa, Asia, Climate, Conservation, Europe, Natural Resources Defense Fund, North America, Oceans, Resources

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The question now is whether President-Elect Donald Trump will govern less divisively than he campaigned.  On climate change, there’s every reason for deep concern.  Candidate Trump said he wants to “cancel” the historic Paris Climate Agreement; his transition team features a fanatical climate denier and energy lobbyists, and […]

How Countries Are Fulfilling Their Paris Climate Commitments

November 13, 2016 / by Han Chen / Africa, Climate, Conservation, Europe, Natural Resources Defense Fund, Resources

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Paris Agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016. As part of the Agreement, countries put forward nationally determined climate commitments. This week, several countries presented an update on their national climate policies, proving once again that the nations of the world are taking climate change seriously […]

From Marrakech, Where The Winds of Change also Blow 

November 12, 2016 / by Guest Blogger / Africa, Climate, Conservation, Europe, Ocean Conservancy, Oceans, Species

Published by Ocean Conservancy A funny thing happened at a meeting this week in Marrakech. Countries from around the world are meeting to decide how they will implement the landmark Paris Climate Agreement. In December last year, 195 countries agreed to aggressive targets to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and limit global warming. As the COP22 […]

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