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Benno Hansen

EU postpones by a decade plans to stop extinctions : Nature Environment - 0 views

  • the EU will have to bring in much stricter rules on protecting rare species and habitats and enforce them much more efficiently, ministers agreed
  • the extinction of animals and plants and the destruction of their habitats costs around 50 billion euros (69 billion dollars) a year worldwide
Benno Hansen

Extinction Countdown: Bugs off: Habitat loss killing Europe's butterflies, beetles and ... - 0 views

  • The Red List update finds that 9 percent of Europe's butterflies, 11 percent of its saproxylic beetles and 14 percent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction, at least within the geographic confines of the European Union
  • Butterflies, for instance, play a hugely pivotal role as pollinators in the ecosystems in which they live.
  • 31 percent of Europe's 435 butterfly species suffer declining populations
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  • The habitat loss afflicting these species comes from many factors, including agriculture, climate change, logging and the depletion of freshwater resources.
Benno Hansen

EU Ministers Link Post-2010 Biodiversity and Climate Change - Climate-L.org - 0 views

  • the Council recognizes that climate change is increasingly among the strongest pressures on biodiversity
  • development and transfer of best practices and technologies will be essential to achieve a coordinated response
  • public and private finance, including innovative forms of financing, and finance associated with the Copenhagen Accord, should -based on appropriate criteria- include scope for payments for ecosystem services
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  • the Council stresses the positive contribution of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to food security and climate adaptation and mitigatio
Benno Hansen

RIO+20 must build a new economic order - TH!NK ABOUT IT - 0 views

  • In Rio, the United Nations must together build a new economic order.
  • While taking measures to tackle the crisis, we must separate growth from environmental damage.
  • we call on political leaders to renew their commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals and to adopt additional measures backed up with the necessary funding. We call on developed countries in particular to implement their commitment to allocate 0.7% of their gross national income to development aid.
Benno Hansen

Euroalert.net - News about the European Union - 0 views

  • biodiversity and the ecosystem services we get for free from nature are preserved, valued and, insofar as possible, restored for their intrinsic value, enabling them to support economic prosperity and human well-being, and averting any catastrophic changes linked to biodiversity loss
Benno Hansen

Euroalert.net - News about the European Union - 0 views

  • biodiversity protection is “a goal for the Spanish Presidency”
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