Daisy Dunne

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Giuliana Viglione |Daisy Dunne

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. IF A TREE FALLS: US president Donald Trump last week signed a pair of executive orders “to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands”, Axios reported.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. EMISSIONS ADVICE: New recommendations from the UK’s climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee, said the nation should reduce its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040. This would keep the country on track for reaching net-zero by 2050 and take £1,400 off household bills by the same year, according to the advice.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Daisy Dunne |Orla Dwyer

Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for “mobilising” at least $200bn per year by 2030 to help developing countries conserve biodiversity. Nations also agreed for the first time to a “permanent arrangement” for providing biodiversity finance to developing nations, “future-proofing” the flow of funds past 2030.

2 months ago | eco-business.com | Daisy Dunne |Patrick Greenfield |Giuliana Viglione |Yanine Quiroz

In December 2022, nearly all nations agreed to protect “30 per cent of Earth’s land and sea for nature” by the end of the decade. This commitment – referred to as “30 by 30” – is the flagship target of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), often likened to the “Paris Agreement for nature”.

2 months ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Yanine Quiroz |Giuliana Viglione |Daisy Dunne

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. CALI CARRIES ON: The UN biodiversity summit, COP16, resumed in Rome yesterday after the countries failed to reach agreement on several key issues in Cali, Colombia last year.