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Restore land the size of China to meet climate and nature goals, UN says
The world needs to restore nature on land areas equivalent to the size of China by 2030 if it is to feed a fast-growing population, curb pollution, halt species loss and meet global goals to tackle climate change, U.N. agencies say.
Road to ruin: Informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia's Amazon
Countries must cut emissions this decade to avoid climate disaster later: Britain
Countries will have to start delivering on emissions-reduction targets during the 2020s, rather than later, to avoid devastation from climate change, the British president of the upcoming COP26 climate summit says.
France's BNP to stop financing firms farming deforested land in the Amazon
Brazil environmental fines fall 20% as deforestation soars
Brazil's main environmental enforcement agency, Ibama, handed out 20% fewer fines in 2020, a Brazilian non-profit factchecking initiative says, as the government rolls back conservation efforts and Amazon deforestation skyrockets.
Most Europeans plan to curb flying, eat less meat for climate, EU poll says
A majority of European citizens intend to fly less and already eat less meat to help fight climate change, according to a survey published by the European Investment Bank.
Goal of no deforestation next year in Brazil savanna unfeasible: Soy association
Setting 2020 as a cut-off date to ban new deforestation and land conversion for soybean areas in Brazil's Cerrado savanna is not feasible, André Nassar, head of the country's oilseeds crushers' group, Abiove, says.