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COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted

·November 4, 2024·3 min read

“This is an unprecedented occasion in the history of multilateral environmental agreements,” Camila Paz Romero, spokesperson for Indigenous Peoples at the summit, told UN News. “Indigenous peoples and local communities of the world – connected from our knowledge systems in the care of life and biodiversity – remember the long...

Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia

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·October 30, 2024·4 min read

More than 190 nations signed up to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Colombia for the 16th Conference of the Parties or COP16, a meeting which is held every two years to agree on commitments to safeguard the environment. The slogan of the meeting is ‘Peace with Nature’, recognising that economic...

The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

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·October 22, 2024·4 min read

Considered the world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the summit is taking place in Cali, the third largest city of the South American nation, and will host some 15,000 attendees, including a dozen heads of State, 103 ministers and over 1,000 international journalists. Aiming to promote international cooperation, agree...

A ‘people’s COP’ to heal the planet: UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia

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·October 21, 2024·2 min read

The UN chief’s call came in a video message to the opening ceremony of the gathering, which officially begins on Monday 21 October in one of the most biodiverse countries on earth. Over the next two weeks, government experts, environmental activists and indigenous groups will tackle pressing global challenges in...

New global fund ‘welcome boost’ to safeguarding biodiversity

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·August 25, 2023·1 min read

The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, launched at the Global Environmental Facility Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, will support the implementation of the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and guide nature towards recovery by 2050. Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General, emphasized...

UN delegates reach historic agreement on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters

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·March 6, 2023·1 min read

“This action is a victory for multilateralism and for global efforts to counter the destructive trends facing ocean health, now and for generations to come,” said the UN chief in a statement issued by his Spokesperson late Saturday evening just hours after the deal was struck at UN Headquarters in...

Revive and restore wetlands, home to 40 per cent of all biodiversity

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·February 2, 2023·3 min read

On World Wetlands Day, observed this Thursday, the United Nations is calling for urgent action to revive and restore these ecosystems, which are disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands cover roughly six per cent of the Earth’s land surface and are vital for human health, food supply, tourism and...

UN conference concludes with ‘historic’ deal to protect a third of the world’s biodiversity

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·December 20, 2022·2 min read

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework also aims to cut food waste in half. COP15 was originally set to be held in Kunming, China, in October 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Strengthen the web of life’ The Framework, and its associated package of targets, goals and...

As biodiversity degrades, nature’s solutions are lost for ever

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·December 18, 2022·5 min read

The UN biodiversity conference, COP15, is due to wrap up on 19 December. This weekend, we are looking at some of the ways that humanity is reliant on biodiversity for a healthy and thriving global ecosystem. When a species goes extinct, it takes with it all of the physical, chemical,...

Why biodiversity is good for our health

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·December 17, 2022·7 min read

The UN biodiversity conference, COP15, is due to wrap up on 19 December. This weekend, we are looking at some of the ways that humanity is reliant on a healthy and thriving global ecosystem. One million species are now said to be at risk of extinction, and if species losses...

‘Without nature, we have nothing’: UN chief sounds alarm at key UN biodiversity event

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·December 7, 2022·5 min read

The conference is being billed as a major biodiversity COP, because it is expected to lead to the adoption of a new Global Biodiversity Framework, guiding actions worldwide through 2030, to preserve and protect our natural resources. The delegates and organizers will be hoping that this framework will have a...

COP27: Protecting biodiversity is protecting the Paris Agreement |

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·November 16, 2022·8 min read

“The two need to be looked at as being on the same wavelength, and not one higher than the other,” Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the international legal instrument to protect biodiversity ratified by 196 nations, told UN News. ‘Biodiversity Day’ at COP27...