Tag: Super Year 2020

Global Coalition for Biodiversity launched on World Wildlife Day 2020

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3 March 2020 Introduction Global Coalition for Biodiversity was launched during the celebrations of the World Wildlife Day 2020 on 3rd March 2020. Salient Features of the Coalition: It has been launched by European Commission. European Commission encourages national, regional, and local authorities, non-governmental organisations, business, scientists and individual citizens to play their part in […]

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India kicks off “Super Year of Biodiversity” with CMS COP -13

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 Feb 17,2020 Despite the climate and biodiversity crises continuing to escalate, environmentalists are calling 2020 a ‘super-year’ for nature because of several upcoming international policy meetings that have the potential to set nature on a path to recovery. Its primary goal being highlighting of 21 Sustaianble Development Goals(SDG) and their targets. India marks the ‘’Super Year of […]

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India and Norway to work jointly towards mitigating marine plastic litter and microplastics; Issue Joint statement.

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Feb 17 ,2020 Union Environment Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar met a delegation led by Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment, H.E. Mr. Sveinung Rotevan on the side-lines of the 13th Conference of Parties of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).  Highlights: Meeting of India and Norway marks the beginning of the ‘2020 […]

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