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The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water recently undertook public consultation on the Draft National Roadmap for protecting and conserving at least 30% of Australia’s land by 2030.    SLR considers the Draft National Roadmap to be a great step in identifying the process for protecting the unique ecological heritage of this continent. We are pleased to have submitted our comments for review, highlighting a few key areas where deficiencies in the document limit it's effectiveness as a tool for helping SLR, and the businesses we partner with, to be able to deliver on Australia's Global Biodiversity Framework commitments.   To read the article by Eoin Noble and view the full draft report, click the link in the comments.   #NaturalCapital #MakingSustainabilityHappen #OneTeam "

SLR Consulting has reviewed the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Draft National Roadmap for protecting and conserving at least 30% of Australia's land by 2023. This is considered a great step in identifying the process for protecting the unique ecological heritage of this continent - but there's more to do. To view our thoughts, click on the link in the comments below.

🌿 Biodiversity has been a cornerstone of the EU legislative agenda. However, powerful lobbies are now trying to portray it as an obstacle to food and energy security. 🛑   ⏸ Calls for a 'pause' in environmental action risk pushing nature and our economies to the brink. We urge EU leaders to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution by strengthening the European Green Deal for a Nature-Positive Europe by 2030. 🌍💚 These are the proposals from the European Habitats Forum to make nature great again 📄👇 #RestoreNature #GreenDeal #Biodiversity

🚀 New report! "Integrating Biodiversity Concerns in Climate Change and Energy Policies: EU Initiatives and Synergies" highlights the links between biodiversity, climate change, and energy policies. Discover a game changer for environmental policy and the sustainability debate: https://ow.ly/C6Gi50RE2Gw 📚 #ClimateEnergyPolicies #EnvironmentalPolicy #ClimateAction #BiodiversityIntegration

🌿 Our planet is calling for action, and Europe aims to find an answer. As environmental stakeholders unite their voices, demanding robust biodiversity targets akin to the climate goals outlined in the #GreenDeal, it's evident that we're at a pivotal moment in shaping the future of our planet. Check out this insightful article by Euractiv, shedding light on Europe's urgent need for ambitious nature and biodiversity policies to pave the way for green, prosperous growth.    Noor Yafai, Europe Director of Global Policy and Institutional Partnerships at The Nature Conservancy, underlines it’s high time to bust the myth that businesses are anti-green policies and green regulation. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gndN6mzP #NatureRestoration #GreenDeal #EU

Amazing work in Athens bringing together #NatureBasedSolutions and #EarlyWarningSystems to build up heat resilience and making cities safer for everyone 🥰 Best wishes to national delegates participating in negotiations this week at #UNEA (United Nations Environment Assembly). They are negotiating 19 draft resolutions covering critical issues: - Reducing pollution; - Halting and reversing loss of nature and ecosystems; - International environmental governance; - Addressing root causes of the triple planetary crisis (Climate Crisis, Biodiversity Loss, Pollution)

The proof will be in delivery but we welcome the inclusion of a Natural Environment Bill within the latest Programme for Government in Scotland - last week was a huge moment for nature and biodiversity.    The Scottish Government has outlined its ambition to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and to reverse it by 2045. They have committed to introduce a Natural Environment Bill to set legally binding nature recovery targets and to create a framework for monitoring, enforcing, and reporting on targets.     Establishing these targets will also help to mainstream the protection and enhancement of the natural environment, holding current and future governments to account to deliver for nature.    The scale of the nature and climate crises require a shift in society’s interactions with nature. Recent cuts to nature funding make action to protect biodiversity in Scotland more crucial than ever. The latest State of Nature report revealed that 1 in 9 Scottish species now face the risk of extinction, and globally Scotland ranks in the bottom 25% of nations in terms of its biodiversity intactness. Our natural environment needs action starting now and lasting into the future, so this crucial piece of legislation is a significant milestone which represents the level of ambition required to turn things around.   This is a promising update to be able to share in advance of the Convention on Biological Diversity - COP16. At the forthcoming conference, the Governments of the UK have a chance to show leadership and set out the ambitious actions they will take on global nature commitments that have so far only been made on paper. It will also be important for the Scottish Government to quickly get back on track on climate change with much more action to reduce emissions. #Scotland #Nature #Biodiversity

The climate and biodiversity crises are intertwined & must be tackled together, as outlined in the joint IPBES and IPCC workshop report: https://lnkd.in/eCNwk98F The organizations' Chairs and SEI — Stockholm Environment Institute research will address this important topic on 17 Sept. https://lnkd.in/e3a4dJNa

UNDP Azerbaijan continues its informative “Towards COP29” video series that aims awareness-raising on climate change mitigation and environmental protection. Today, Ms. Alessandra Roccasalvo, the UNDP Resident Representative a.i. in Azerbaijan, talks about biodiversity, the animal and plant kingdom. Biodiversity is a whole ecosystem, so we do not know what will happen if we are losing different parts of it. Therefore, as part of the global biodiversity framework, we must protect the species of plants and animals that we have in the country. #TowardsCOP29 #COP29 #ClimateChange #ClimatePromise #ClimateAction #sustainablefuture

Deforestation impacts climate, biodiversity, water quality, and cultural heritage. In this new article, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development explains how you can navigate new legislative requirements. It features five realistic cases to explain how companies across the supply chain must comply with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and how they need to provide due diligence. Detangling the EU Deforestation Regulation: https://lnkd.in/ejZ5psUG