Australia withpromeaimed at eliminating extinctions; the first Brazilian card made with 100% recycled plastic and +

🐨 Zero new extinctions

Australia has set a goal of having “zero new extinctions” in order to protect the animals and plants of the continent – ​​which is known for having species that do not exist anywhere else on the planet.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announced this Tuesday (4) a plan to “protect 30% of our lands and 30% of our oceans by 2030”, reserving at least 30% of Australia's land mass for conservation.

According to Plibersek, 110 species and 20 locations will be prioritized and a total of 50 million hectares will be added to the area already conserved. The 10-year plan will be reviewed in 2027.

“By protecting more habitat, we can protect the homes of these precious plants and animals, and the landscapes that mean so much to Australians,” said Plibersek, in a press conferencesystem. (G1)

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💳 Brazilian card with 100% recycled plastic

iti – Itaú Unibanco’s digital bank – announced this Monday (3) its new card made with 100% recycled plastic, the first of its kind in Brazil. The new feature was developed in partnership with Idemia, a global leader in issuing payment cards.

The bank already offered cards with 85% recycled material and, this year, all new cards requested will be issued with 100% recycled material, at no cost to the customer.

The new card will also have the same visual accessibility features found in other physical versions of the product, such as Braille writing and a side cutout to identify the side that should be inserted into the card machines.

🌳 War causes millions in environmental damage

According to Ukraine's Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets, Russia has already caused around 36 million euros in environmental damage during the 7 months of conflict and 2,9 million hectares of the country's natural reserves are threatened.

Since the beginning of the war, more than 2 thousand cases of environmental damage were registered by Ukraine. The minister denounced, in a hearing at the European Parliament's environmental committee, that approximately 20% of the country's protected areas are close to being destroyed.

According to Ukraine, the estimate is that the damage caused by atmospheric pollution resulting from the war exceeds 25 billion euros, with another 11,4 billion euros being needed to recover the damage suffered by the soil.

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🌱 Reducing 25% of greenhouse gases by the end of the decade will cost less than not acting, says IMF

Vital measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by the end of the decade will lead to lower growth and higher inflation, but the costs of inaction would be much higher, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.

"As the energy transition needed to achieve this has to be rapid, it should involve some costs in the coming years”, said the fund in a chapter of its World Economic Outlook. (🇬🇧)

The IMF’s core message is “that if the right measures are implemented immediately and gradually over the next eight years, the costs will remain manageable and will be dwarfed by the countless costs of long-term inaction".

In short, the IMF states that The transition to a greener future comes at a price, but the longer countries wait to make the change, the higher the costs will be.

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Environmentalist Parliamentary Front re-elected 112 of 216; bench remains strong, assesses SOS Mata Atlântica

SOS Mata Atlântica mapped parliamentarians committed to environmental causes for the new National Congress, elected last Sunday (2). In the assessment of the organization's Director of Public Policies, Malu Ribeiro, the situation in the Chamber of Deputies is not bad for the environment: 112 deputies from the Environmentalist Parliamentary Front were re-elected. New deputies – such as two elected indigenous people – can help make up the new green bench. In the Senate, the front lost 3 of the 8 senators, but it also hopes to gain 5 new politicians with a sustainable footprint and form a “strong resistance bench”.

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