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Countries under pressure to fork out for nature at UN conference
Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious ...
Fungi deserve same protections as plants and animals, conservationists argue
Fungi are the “firmament of life on Earth,” experts say but don’t get equivalent protections of plants and animals ...
Over a year of astonishing ocean heat has given way to the largest coral bleaching on record
The mass bleaching that started in February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
‘The Paris Agreement for nature’: Can COP16 move countries to protect 30% of land and water by 2030?
The whole world will be watching to see how the EU delivers on its global commitments, Greenpeace says.View on euronews ...
UN biodiversity conference focuses on whether worldwide efforts to protect land, water are working
Twenty-three targets will be discussed including cutting food waste and preventing the introduction of invasive species.
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Indigenous territories & peoples are key to achieving COP16’s 30×30 target (commentary)
The Conference of the Parties (COP) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will take place from October 21 to November 1, 2024, in Cali, Colombia, with a focus on the implementation of the ...
Few countries have drawn up nature protection plans: UN
Fewer than 15 percent of countries have submitted plans to slow the destruction of nature ahead of a global biodiversity ...
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Crisis facing nature takes centre stage at UN summit
In 1992, 150 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global agreement to support sustainable development by protecting the web of life on Earth. This marks the 16 th Conference of the ...
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LSE Academics prepare for COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity
LSE Roundtable on Global Biodiversity Finance and Digital Sequence Information: Preparing for COP16 in Cali, Colombia. 27-28 September 2024 From 21 October 2024 to 1 November 2024 the 16 th Conference ...
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What Indigenous leaders want from the COP16 U.N. biodiversity conference
By Aimee Gabay From Oct. 21 to Nov. 1, Indigenous and local community leaders from around the world will gather at the latest ...
Colombia’s Caribbean islands on front line of war on climate change
As representatives of the signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity prepare to meet in Colombia, residents of ...
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Convention on Biological Diversity extended to the Falkland Islands
The United Kingdom ratification to the Convention on Biological Diversity was formally extended to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday (June 29). The CBD is an agreement on environmental management ...