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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 and consumption, and other drivers, that disrupt natural interactions among wildlife and their microbes, increase…
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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 will result in the constant erosion not only of our common natural heritage but also…
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Invasive alien species: countermeasures adopted at Orio al Serio Airport– video
The invasive alien species (IAS) are a serious threat to biodiversity. The video shows the countermeasures adopted at Milan Bergamo international Airport, in Italy, as part of the Life Gestire 2020 EU project. https://youtu.be/6VINBsqIA3M
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The global perspectives on biodiversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has published the fifth edition of the global perspectives on biodiversity, the Global Biodiversity Outlook 5. According to the document, created with the contribution of the United Nations environment program (Unep), biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented pace while the pressures linked directly and not to anthropic activities intensify.…
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Public consultation on forests
The public consultation on the communication from the European Commission entitled “Intensifying EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests“, which aims to improve the vitality, resilience and extension of forest ecosystems, will remain open until 10 December 2020. Go to the public consultation. The consultation will contribute to the formulation of the specific…
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The new EU Farm to Fork Strategy
Adopted on May 2020 the EU Farm to Fork Strategy aims to substantially overhaul Europe’s complex food system in order to render it healthy, equitable and sustainable. The strategy targets every step of the food chain from its initial production, manufacturing and processing to its final packaging, transportation, sale and consumption. The strategy presents a…
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The new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
In May 2020, the Commission published its new EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, as an integral part of the Green Deal. The new Biodiversity Strategy sets the objective to ensure that ‘by 2050 all of the world’s ecosystems are restored, resilient and adequately protected’, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the…
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Soil consumption and ecosystem services
On July 22, ISPRA, the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, presented in a live conference, new data on soil consumption in Italy and the 2020 edition of the Report of the National System for the Protection of the Environment. According to the report “Land Consumption, Land Cover Changes, and Ecosystem Services”, produced by…
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Slovenian and Italian LIFE IP’s networking: exchanging experiences
Italian project LIFE GESTIRE2020 and slovenian project LIFE Capacity building Slovenjia met in September in the Natura 2000 site and regional forest of Corni di Canzo for a two days’ networking exchange focused on best practices and mutual lessons learnt in the implementation of Integrated Projects.