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Achieving Ambitious Global Conservation Requires Expanded and Diverse Efforts
More than 50 scientists from 23 countries delivered to governments a synthesis of the science informing the 21 targets proposed in the draft ‘post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’. Authors cautioned that more protected areas won't save biodiversity without equal attention to the 20 other targets in the draft. The analysis was coordinated by two renowned international science bodies: bioDISCOVERY, a project of Future Earth, and the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). A broad range of experts from global research projects in the Future Earth community and the Earth Commission additionally contributed to the analysis. Read more on the Future Earth website. This analysis was also featured in Nature and the Guardian.
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Join PECS Webinar on Environmental Philanthropy
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) Collaborative Working Group will organize a webinar titled "Philanthropic Foundations as Agents of Environmental Governance: Insights from Ocean Philanthropy" on 4 February 2022 from 8am (MST). Professor Rebecca Gruby, an Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, will present during this webinar and introduce the Ocean Philanthropy Research Initiative, a five-year knowledge co-production project focused on the roles, impacts, and legitimacy of private foundations in marine conservation. Prof. Gruby will also explore how and why we are conceptualizing private foundations as agents of environmental governance. She will also share preliminary empirical results on how foundations and practitioners conceptualize donor legitimacy in the marine conservation field. Register for the webinar from here.
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Call for Papers: 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance
This year's conference will be planned for on-site attendance in Toronto, with opportunities for virtual access and paper presentations. It will be hosted by the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo and the theme of the conference encompasses an array of opportunities for debate and discussion. Check out the key dates and deadlines for Individual papers, Full panels and Innovative Sessions below and find more information here.
Key Dates:
- Deadline for paper and full session abstracts, second intake: 15 February 2022 (Extended)
- Deadline for Innovative Sessions: 15 February, 2022
- Notification of acceptance, second intake: 31 March 2022
- Full papers due: 22 August 2022
Full Call for Papers and Conference Streams
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Knowledge-Action Networks
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Subscribe the Urban KAN Newsletter!
The Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network (Urban KAN) is publishing a newsletter. The Urban KAN convenes an engaged research base, focused on the co-design and co-production of knowledge and tools to provide solutions to the greatest sustainability challenges facing cities. We work to incorporate the latest research findings into government, business, and community decisions and policies. The newsletter highlights various works related to these themes and activities. Sign up here and check out the latest updates!
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Highlights (In Case You Missed It)
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The 10 Countries Impacted by Climate Change that Received the Least Media Attention in 2021
Care International's annual report revealed the 10 countries that had the least coverage in online articles across five languages, in 2021, despite these countries having at least 1 million people impacted by conflict or climate disasters.
“There is deep injustice at the heart of it. The world’s poorest are bearing the brunt of climate change – poverty, migration, hunger, gender inequality and ever more scarce resources – despite having done the least to cause it. Add Covid-19 into the mix and we see decades of progress towards tackling inequality, poverty, conflict and hunger disappearing before our eyes.” said Laurie Lee, CEO of Care International UK. Read more here to see what people in those 10 countries are going through.
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Anthropocene Magazine's Daily Science - Latest
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Researchers Consider the Benefits of Conservation Retreat: Smaller Reserves and Focused Funding
With few exceptions, protected savannas in the central African countries of Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo have witnessed a steep decline in large herbivores such as elephants and antelopes in recent decades. The new findings have led researchers studying the problem to a sobering conclusion: It’s better to focus on saving smaller patches of the best habitat. Read more...
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In a Comparison of Life-Cycle Emissions, EVs Crushed Combustion Cars
Electric vehicles have lower tailpipe emissions compared to fossil fuel-burning cars, but they don’t go scot-free when it comes to the environment. Mining the raw materials for batteries is dirty business, and manufacturing and charging them can produce emissions. Those overlooked indirect emissions have led skeptics to argue whether EVs are really as green as touted.
New research from Yale University should put those arguments to rest. The study finds that the total indirect emissions from EVs pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. And if a carbon price is placed on all the emissions, both direct and indirect, from a vehicle’s full life cycle, EVs become far more attractive to buyers. Read more...
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Circular Trash Management is a Powerful but Overlooked Climate Solution
A new study suggests that by 2050 the world could largely eliminate an entire source of air pollution, which currently contributes 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually – just by changing how we throw things away. The amount of garbage produced is growing every year as the global population increases and gets wealthier. Global generation of garbage could nearly double between 2015 and 2050. Often, that garbage isn’t managed very effectively. Only about 13% of garbage is recycled and 5.5% composted; in less wealthy countries, garbage often ends up in unmanaged dumping sites, scattered over the landscape, or openly burned. Read more...
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Turning Scrap Wood into Innovative Products could be a Huge Win for Curbing Carbon and Wildfire
It’s widely believed that many forests in the western U.S. are sick and need surgery using chainsaws and fire. But two major barriers stand in the way: Figuring out how to pay for the work and how to keep it from adding to the greenhouse gases piling up in the atmosphere. Now, a team of California researchers say part of the solution in their state – and elsewhere – could be making fuel and buildings from the skinny trees and leftover branches once treated as worthless scrap. Read more...
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Join the Sustainability Frontiers Conference
When: 14-15 February 2022
The online conference, Frontiers in Sustainability, will be an opportunity for the sustainability community to reflect on achievements and gaps, and to look forward to the next decade in the development of sustainability science. Amid growing focus on sustainability and Agenda 2030, and on the pathway toward Stockholm+50, two leading Swedish centers, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) will co-host an online conference for the sustainability community, on the frontiers of sustainability science. The conference will focus on five emerging topics for sustainability science and include an environmental justice/equity and governance perspective throughout all sessions. It will also be an opportunity to gather together research networks around new topics. The conference has no fees. Read more and register here.
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Join the Joint ESA/ Plymouth Marine Laboratory/ NASA Workshop: Ocean Carbon from Space
When: 14-18 February 2022
The second workshop in the Color and Light in the ocean from Earth Observations Series will be held online from 14-18 February 2022. It is a contribution to the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Work Plan on the Aquatic Carbon Application area, as endorsed by the CEOS Ocean Color Radiometry Virtual Constellation (OCR-VC) founded within the International Ocean Color Coordinating Group (IOCCG). It aims to bring together remote sensing scientists, field scientists and modelers around the common topic of ocean carbon, its pools and fluxes, its variability in space and time and the understanding of its processes and interactions with the earth system Find more here.
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Two Research Fellow Positions at ESA
ESA is accepting proposals for the two-year positions below.
- Internal Research Fellow in Exploiting Earth Observation for Climate Research
Closes: 14 February 2022
This position looks into the use of satellite-based observations to address key climate science questions and will be based in the ESA Climate Office. Find more here.
- Internal Research Fellow in Earth Observation for Earth System Science
Closes: 18 February 2022
This position will look into the use of satellite-based Earth observations for ocean or land surface processes research and will be based in the Earth System Science Hub near Rome, Italy, a new science facility at ESA and a centre for networking and scientific collaboration among world-class researchers in ESA Member States and worldwide. Find more here.
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Yet, when it comes to the effects of climate change, there has been nothing but chronic injustice and the corrosion of human rights."
— Mary Robinson, First woman President of Ireland and the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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