While progress on corporate climate action can be frustratingly slow, we can be buoyed by the fact that most big businesses now understand their impact on the climate; and by and large, they ...
For years, conversations around sustainability have focused on the global issues of climate change, carbon emissions, and pollution. But land degradation, drought, and desertification, caused by ...
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The COP16 biodiversity summit ended on a mixed note. Delegates from 177 nations agreed to language saying that companies “should” pay conservation fees for genetic digital sequence information (DSI) ...
From October 21 to November 1, over 190 countries will convene at the sixteenth conference of the parties, COP16, for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to drive global action to protect ...
The key priorities for a successful outcome at the crucial UN biodiversity conference COP16 are set out by WWF. As the world’s eyes turn to Colombia for the UN Biodiversity Conference COP16, WWF sets ...
Two years ago, nearly every country on Earth signed on to a landmark agreement to protect the fast-eroding natural world. It was celebrated as the "Paris moment" for the world's threatened and ...
Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about ...
For me, COP16—the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference—was a whirlwind of negotiations, schoolwork, side events, schoolwork, networking, and wait, have I mentioned schoolwork? When you’re ...
The UN nature summit COP16 recently concluded in Cali, Colombia, with key decisions on Indigenous representation and the use of genetic resources overshadowed by the abrupt end to the proceedings. The ...
Governments of 196 countries have been meeting at the UN COP16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, for two weeks. This is the first time they have come together to evaluate whether enough ...