Tag:UN Biodiversity Conference

Conservation

UN biodiversity talks resume in Rome after failure to agree last year

The UN Biodiversity Conference opened on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, in a renewed attempt to reach an agreement, four months after delegates failed to...

Michael Simire - February 25, 2025

Sustainable Devpt

COP16: Finance crucial towards actualising global biodiversity targets – Campaigners

With political will, Global North countries could deliver on $20 billion per year by 2025 and at least $30 billion per year by 2030...

Michael Simire - October 21, 2024

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COP16: Crisis facing nature takes centre stage at UN summit

A major United Nations conference on biological diversity opened on Monday, October 21, 2024, in Cali, Colombia, where 196 nations will discuss how to...

Michael Simire - October 21, 2024

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Great Green Wall project recognised among 10 pioneering initiatives restoring natural world

The United Nations has recognised the Great Green Wall and nine other ground-breaking efforts from around the globe for their role in restoring the...

Michael Simire - December 25, 2022

Conservation

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...

Michael Simire - December 19, 2022

Sustainable Devpt

CBD COP15: Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction – Guterres

In his remarks at the UN Biodiversity Conference – COP15 – in Montreal, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, lamented that, with man’s bottomless appetite for...

Michael Simire - December 7, 2022

Conservation

In run up to CBD COP15, biodiversity scientists suggest ‘10 Must Dos’

By 2030, 30 per cent of the planet's land and sea areas should be protected. All subsidies leading to the degradation of nature should...

Michael Simire - December 5, 2022

Conservation

‘Building a Shared Future for all Life’ is slogan for Biodiversity Day 2022

With the aim of highlighting the importance of biodiversity for many sustainable development issues, the 2022 slogan for the International Day for Biological Diversity,...

Michael Simire - March 31, 2022

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