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.
July 5, 2011
SCB Recommends Six Steps for Nation-wide Wolf Recovery
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May 23, 2011
SCB Comments on Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wind Energy Guidelines
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May 16, 2011
Scientific Society Finds Proposed Forest Rule Inadequate to Conserve Forest Ecosystems
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February 18, 2011
Scientific Societies ask Obama and Congress to protect Endangered Species Act in 2012 Budget
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February 17, 2011
Minnesota SCB Chapter Works to Save State Wildlife Grants Program
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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 HERE
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