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The state of European water bodies
About 88 % of Europe’s freshwater use comes from rivers and groundwater, according to an article published on the website of the European Environment Agency in March 2021 Ensuring clean waters for people and nature. The rest comes from reservoirs…
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Making Peace with Nature
Given the interconnected nature of climate change, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, and air and water pollution, it is essential that these problems are tackled together now. This is one of the main messages included in the new UNEP report…
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New financial resources for UNESCO’s site of naturalistic interest
Seventy-five million euros for the three-year period 2021-2023 for adaptation to climate change in UNESCO sites of naturalistic interest,of which many are located in the Lombardy region, and in national parks, provided by a new program of interventions by the…
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Biodiversity and pandemics: the Ipbes report
“The underlying causes of pandemics are the same global environmental changes that drive biodiversity loss and climate change” Almost all pandemics are connected to the unsustainable exploitation of the environment due to land-use change, agricultural expansion and intensification, wildlife trade…
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New EU state of nature report
We need to make a radical change if we are to have a real chance of bringing biodiversity back to Europe on the path of environmental recovery by 2030, as envisaged in the new biodiversity strategy. Failure on this front…