Tag:UN Biodiversity Convention

Climate Change

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...

Michael Simire - December 23, 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

Conservation

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...

Michael Simire - December 16, 2022

Conservation

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...

Michael Simire - June 26, 2022

Cover

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...

Michael Simire - June 26, 2022

Sustainable Devpt

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...

Michael Simire - March 15, 2022

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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)...

Michael Simire - January 24, 2022

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UN Biodiversity Convention announces new dates for resumed sessions of subsidiary bodies, working group

The physical meeting of the resumed sessions of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) scientific and implementation bodies, and the working group tasked with...

Michael Simire - December 22, 2021

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