Environment

First national human rights investigation into climate change impacts proceeds despite opposition from fossil fuel companies

The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR), on December 8, initiated the next steps in the world’s first-ever national investigation into human rights harms resulting from climate change, despite apparent opposition from some fossil fuel...

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New bird species and giraffe under threat – IUCN Red List

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The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is now threatened with extinction.

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Greenpeace calls for urgent global action to save The Great Northern Forest

As governments meet to discuss biodiversity, on December 7, Greenpeace announced a new global campaign to save the world’s largest terrestrial carbon store – the Great Northern Forest.

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Greater efforts needed to safeguard biodiversity

The world must ramp up its efforts to use natural resources more sustainably and conserve biological diversity and the ecosystems on which we depend for human life, on December 7, the OECD told participants at the COP13 Convention on Biological...

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