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WHAT''S NEXT?: Oceans, animals, and land are all under threat from climate change and human activities. The effective and efficient conservation of agricultural biodiversity is vital to meeting the global challenges of food and nutritional security for an expanding world population. But, the signs are of continued degradation of our global natural resources and environment.

[New] At least 50 countries, including Germany, have now committed to protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030, pledging to halt the extinction of species and address climate change issues under the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People.
[New] We have an enormous opportunity at 2021's biodiversity conference in China to forge an agreement to protect at least 30% of the world's land and ocean by 2030.
[New] As part of the AIA, USDA set ambitious goals to increase agricultural production by 40%, while cutting the environmental footprint of U.S. agriculture in half by 2050.
[New] The average global temperature is expected to increase from 2.6 degrees Celsius to 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase.
[New] With rising sea levels from global warming, the total water surface area of planet Earth is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years.
[New] 50 countries had joined the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, which was launched in 2019 by Costa Rica, France and Britain to set a target of protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030.
[New] The UK will spend at least £3bn of international climate finance on nature and biodiversity over five years.
[New] Global natural gas production is expected to grow by 24% to 4,857 Bcm in 2040, with most additions coming from North America, followed by Russia and the Middle East.
[New] Air Protein cites the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization prediction that farmers will need to increase food production by 70% with only a 5% increase in land use to meet the food demands of an expected 10 billion people on earth by 2050.
[New] Indonesia's government last year launched a plan to cut ocean plastic waste by 70% by 2025, and to end plastic pollution altogether by 2040.
[New] Without decreases in plastic production and increases in recycling, by 2040 plastic pollution entering the ocean will triple from 11 to 29 million metric tons each year.
[New] If current trends continue, solar PV capacity is on course to surpass natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024 in the global electricity sector.
[New] Massachusetts lawmakers on Monday passed sweeping climate legislation that sets a statewide net zero limit on greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, includes new renewable energy targets and efficiency standards, and codifies environmental justice provisions into state law.
[New] Ensign Energy Services expects to be about 15% busier in Canada in 2021 as petroleum producers increase drilling due to improved oil and natural gas prices.
[New] Nature and biodiversity underpin the global economy today and so a threat to biodiversity presents not only an ecological risk but a financial risk as well (the WWF predicts a loss of $10 trillion in global GDB between 2011 and 2050 if current biodiversity loss trends continue).
China has since announced more specific targets, including a 65% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, and to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix to 25%.
Hanoi - Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta in the 2020-2021 dry season will be less severe than in the 2019-2020 dry season, with the highest level expected to be in February and March in Mekong River estuary and in March and April in Vam Co and Cai Lon rivers.

Last updated: 16 January 2021

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