Nature ‘Piracy,’ Funding Battles Will Dominate UN Biodiversity Summit
Countries, investors and lenders have gathered at COP16 in Colombia to try to reverse the global decline of the biosphere.
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UN biodiversity conference: what's at stake?
The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on ...
Pressure grows for nations to deliver on promised biodiversity targets at UN conference
The agreement signed by 196 countries at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference calls for protecting 30% of land and ...
Can biodiversity credits unlock billions for nature?
Paying to safeguard tropical rainforests or compensate for habitat destruction is an area of growing interest, and trading ...
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GoB, UNDP, GEF launch initiatives to conserve biodiversity and wetlands
Ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), the Government of Bangladesh, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ...
What are national biodiversity plans and why are almost 200 countries rushing to finish their homework on this?
Nearly 200 nations face a deadline to report their nature conservation plans to the United Nations ahead of a two-week UN ...
Jane Goodall Warns On 'False Promises' At UN Biodiversity Meet
World-respected British primate expert Jane Goodall wants a coming United Nations summit on biodiversity to lead to action ...
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Global banks embark on a new wave of product innovation targeting nature
The sudden interest in a theme that’s long been deemed too obscure and niche for Wall Street comes as banks and asset ...
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The big value of the tiny things that crawl
With their razor-sharp specificity, insects pull the threads of destiny for most things in the living world—despite their ...
Explainer-Countries Must Report Nature Protection Plans to the UN. What Does That Mean?
The agreement, called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, established four overall goals for 2050 and a ...
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Commercial Bank joins effort to protect Kayankerni coral sanctuary
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has partnered with Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) in the ‘Life to Our Coral Reefs’ initiative, supporting a five-year project to conserve the Kayankerni marine sanctuary in ...