SCB Policy Program

The mission of the policy program is to leverage the research and scientific expertise of the Society’s members to ensure that critical knowledge relating to the conservation of biological diversity is used by decision makers when shaping policies that affect the planet’s biodiversity.

May 15, 2013

SCB Petitions Agencies To Develop Recovery Planning Regulations for Endangered Species

May 7, 2013

SCB Calls for Protection of Gray Wolf Under California Law

April 22, 2013

SCB Releases Recommendations for Action During the Second Obama Presidential Term

April 19, 2013

SCB Submits Comments on Flawed Assessment of Keystone XL Pipeline

March 11, 2013

SCB Calls for Listing Lesser Prairie Chicken as an Endangered Species

March 1, 2013

SCB Requests Additional Research on the Impacts of Fracking on Biodiversity

February 8, 2013

Scientific Societies Request Climate Summit with President Obama

January 24, 2013

SCB Statement on the Use of Ivory for Religious Objects

January 19, 2013

SCB Calls for Comprehensive Review of Coal Exports’ Impacts on Biodiversity

December 18, 2012

Scientific Societies Ask Mexico to Take Additional Steps to Save the Vaquita

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November 21, 2012
New Report on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap. The United Nations Environment Programme’s 2012 Emissions Gap Report finds that GHG emissions have increased 20% since the year 2000, and that total GHG emissions will be 58 gigatons of CO2 equivalent by 2020. Greenhouse gases will need to be reduced by at least 8 gigatons of CO2 equivalent by 2020 in order to meet international agreement to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius this century. Learn more about the UNEP Emissions Gap program HERE.

October 20, 2012
Agreement Reached to Double Financial Support for Conservation at Convention for Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties. Today, in Hyderbad, India, member nations today agreed to raise conservation funding to $10 billion by 2015 to support biodiversity protection efforts in the developing world. Read the press release HERE and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary of the entire conference HERE.

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The policy program is generously supported by grants from the Wilburforce Foundation and the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. We extend our deepest thanks for their continuing support.

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