Nature

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] The EIB Group stated that it expects its financing to unlock EUR 1 trillion of climate action and environmental sustainable investment in the decade to 2030.
[New] The European Union plans to turn the European Investment Bank (EIB) into a climate bank, which means the EIB will gradually increase the share of its financing dedicated to climate action and environmental sustainability to reach 50% of its operations in 2025.
[New] Impossible Foods mission is to replace the world's most destructive technology - the use of animals in food production - by 2035.
[New] The new money for flood defences brings the government's total to £5.2bn and will help build around 2,000 new schemes on rivers and coasts across all regions of England.
[New] Instead of testing empty spacecraft, the ISRO will launch a humanoid robot named Vyommitra - Sanskrit for space's friend - into low Earth orbit, which will act as a dummy astronaut for the first two test flights.
[New] Tens of thousands of new internet satellites could blanket Earth in the coming years, many of them brighter than nearly every other artificial object circling the planet.
Australian research in 2016 warned that due to climate change, the habitat of 90% of eucalypt species could decline and 16 species were expected to lose their home environments within 60 years.
In 2008, Massachusetts enacted a law that required the Department of Environmental Protection to establish targets for GHG emissions reductions below 1990 levels between 10-25 percent by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
By 2024, India will most likely overtake China to become the most populous country on the earth with 1.44bn people.
In addition to millions of new 5G base stations on Earth and 20,000 new satellites in space, 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, will be part of the Internet of Things by 2020, and one trillion objects a few years later.
Four of the five major risks listed in the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report are environmental: climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme weather and the water crisis.
Today's biggest dangers are all ecological in nature: water crises, biodiversity loss, extreme weather, climate change, and pollution.
Some of the challenges facing the world in the next decades - including environmental, demographic and technological change - will require adaptation and innovation from all parts of society.
The goal for phase one of the communications constellation will see 648 in Low Earth Orbit and global coverage up and running by 2021.
To confront the growing loss of nature in the United States and globally, scientists recommend that countries commit to protecting at least 30 percent of all lands and oceans by 2030, with a long-term goal of conserving approximately half the Earth in a natural condition.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will stimulate innovation so that American agriculture can achieve the goal of increasing production by 40 percent while cutting the environmental footprint of US agriculture in half by 2050.
During this 'Super Year' for biodiversity world leaders will develop a global strategic plan for biodiversity, agree to nature-related articles in the Paris Agreement, set a global ocean agenda, and launch a Decade of Action, including the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, to be launched in 2021.
US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue deviated from Trump administration policies and backed the idea of a carbon market for the rural economy on Thursday, as the Department of Agriculture (USDA) outlined a goal of halving the environmental footprint of the agriculture sector by 2050.
Continuing current rates of environmental degradation will result in costs of at least £368bn a year if no action is taken.
The EU has raised even further its ambition with the launch of the European Green Deal, fixing the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and reaffirming European leadership on climate and environmental policies.
A key element of uncertainty for Scotland's international trade outlook remains the nature of any trade agreement reached between the UK and EU at the end of 2021.
More than 30 Democratic senators introduced a bill to require the Environmental Protection Agency to come up with a plan for the U.S. to eliminate its carbon footprint by 2050.
Researchers combined information on recent extinctions from climate change, rates of species movement, and different projections of future climate to estimate that one in three species of plants and animals may face extinction by 2070.

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Last updated: 04 April 2020