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On Saturday 24 March 8:30 p.m. local time, skylines around the world will go dark as millions celebrate WWF’s Earth Hour to spark global awareness and action on nature and the environment.

Plastic is everywhere, a part of our daily lives. However, the convenience of plastics now threatens the very survival of our planet.

Press Release: AEON Environmental Foundation Established ‘The Midori Prize for Biodiversity’.

Press Release: Biodiversity Flying High.

Press Release: Biodiversity – Time to See the Bigger Picture! A New Outreach Initiative Launches 5 June 2009.

Press Release: Jean Lemire Appointed Ambassador to the Green Wave for Biodiversity.

Press Release: Nominations open for the 2012 Midori Prize for Biodiversity

Press Release: The 6th INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™ opens for entries and searches the globe for the true unsung sustainability heroes.

Press Release: Tokyo/Montreal 20 September 2012 – The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity have been announced today in Tokyo.

Press release: Saving oceans and coasts – outstanding political solutions: Future Policy Award 2012 goes to Palau

Rachel Carson, the late American biologist and conservationist, suggested “there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds... something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”

Reconnecting ourselves to nature is sometimes easier said than done. Many of us live in cities full of concrete and use devices such as smartphones and laptops that, while connecting us to other people, often serve to disconnect us from the simple wonders of the natural world.

Secretariat Launches Redesigned Website - Essential communication tool will better support phase of enhanced implementation of the Convention.

<br>View also the press release <a href='/doc/press/2007/pr-2007-05-22-web-fr.pdf'>in French</a> and <a href='/doc/press/2007/pr-2007-05-22-web-es.pdf'>in Spanish</a>.

Speaking Notes of Mr. Braulio F. de Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the Biodiversity Offsets Conference, 13 February 2014, Ottawa, Canada

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the City of Montreal Press Conference: Expansion of Mount Royal Park, 13 September 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Side-event: How to Leverage World Heritage to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge of the Decade, Friday, 15 September 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, 7 September 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Mother Earth Day, 22 April 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the United Nations Day, 24 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, 17 June 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wildlife Day, 3 March 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, 29 September 2023

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Earth Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Soil Day 2019

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of United Nations Day, 24 October 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October, 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day, 8 October, 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Mother Earth Day, “Restore Our Earth”

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of United Nations Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of United Nations Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2021: “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.”

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day, “Sing, Fly, Soar – Like a Bird!”

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Africa Environment Day, 3 March 2010, Arusha, Tanzania.

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the 2nd International Youth Symposium for Biodiversity, 4 July 2009, Ottawa, Canada.

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Meeting on “Biodiveristy in Science and Art”, 10 March 2010 Florence, Italy.

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the United Nations Environment Programme Workshop on Journalism and The Environment, Bali, 22 February 2010.

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention On Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the European Youth Perspective Conference on Biodiversity, 2 July 2010, Geel, Belgium.

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee for the Programme of Work on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of European Biodiversity Day, 28 April 2010, Strasbourg, France.

Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Virtual High-level Event on Raising Ambition for Nature, Online, Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Statement of the CBD Executive Secretary, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of World Environment Day – 5 June 2014: “Raise your voice, not the sea level”

Summary results and conclusions of the Airbus-commissioned survey referred to in the address of the Executive Secretary delivered at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 3 September 2009.

Sustaining Life: How Humans Health Depends on Biodiversity - Statement by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the Occasion of the United Nations Book Launch, New York, 23 April 2008.

The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity hails the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2006.

<br>(<a href='/doc/press/2006/pr-2006-08-09-wip-es.pdf'>Spanish version</a> and <a href='/doc/press/2006/pr-2006-08-09-wip-fr.pdf'>French version</a>)

The GBIF Secretariat has launched the inaugural GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, hoping to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers and other experts competing for a €20,000 first prize. Visit the challenge site at: gbif.challengepost.com

The Midori Prize for Biodiversity, established by the AEON environmental Foundation, was awarded today to three individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity at all levels.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity welcomes Pope Francis’ call to action in the face of global biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental degradation.