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Tag: biodiversity loss

  • NGO response to Finland and Sweden’s comments on EU forestry rules

    Recent comments from the Finnish and Swedish Prime Ministers have called for the weakening of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation. Their position undermines the whole purpose of carbon accounting and their proposed actions prioritise short-term interests of a single sector over long-term societal health and resilience.

  • Biodiversity. Planetary crises. The role of standards. All you need to know for Mother Earth Day

    Around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. 4.7 million hectares of forests are lost every year. 90% of disasters are now classed as weather and climate-related linked to the climate crisis.

  • Joint report – Meeting the Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 15

    New ECOS report prepared with Biodiversify analyses Target 15, one of the main outcomes from the 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This Target encourages and enables the private sector to monitor, assess and transparently disclose risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity both within their own operations and across their supply and value chains.

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