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GEF Council approves plans for ‘game changing’ Global Biodiversity Framework Fund

The Global Environment Facility’s governing board has approved plans to establish a “game-changing” new fund to finance the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity...

New international biodiversity agreement strengthens climate action

Countries meeting at the recently held UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 in Montreal reached an agreement that observers believe represents a key step in protecting...

Human-elephant conflict a threat to elephant’s survival, say African range states

African countries belonging to the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) have met on the side-lines of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal and adopted a...

COP15: UK announces funding to deliver on ‘30by30’ target

Wildlife, plants and habitats at risk across the globe are set to benefit from new government funding announced by Environment Secretary, Thérèse Coffey, at...

Stakeholders tag Nairobi biodiversity talks ‘a failure’

For the past week, negotiators from 195 states plus the EU met in Nairobi, Kenya to agree on text for a Global Biodiversity Framework...

Govts advance text of landmark global agreement on biodiversity

With six days of negotiations behind them in Nairobi at the fourth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework...

Biodiversity negotiations: Experts weigh in on priorities, demand robust framework agreement

Against the backdrop of the ongoing UN Convention on Biodiversity’s third and last round of negotiations holding in Geneva, Switzerland, conservationists and Indigenous leaders...

COVID-19 pandemic threatens UN Biodiversity Conference scheduled for China

The schedule of the second phase of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15)...

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Abuja technology forum to convene youth, CSOs, media

PROMAD, a civic innovation organisation, says it will convene a one-day Hybrid Youth, CSO & Media Roundtable on Youth,...
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Nigeria unveils plan to lift 50m out of poverty by 2030

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro, has inaugurated the “One Humanitarian-One Poverty Response System...

Ikeja Electric cites generation drop for Lagos outages

Ikeja Electric (IE) says residents and businesses across Lagos are experiencing reduced electricity supply following a nationwide drop in...

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Abuja technology forum to convene youth, CSOs, media

PROMAD, a civic innovation organisation, says it will convene...

Nigeria unveils plan to lift 50m out of poverty by 2030

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr...