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Next year’s UN biodiversity conference, the COP15, should be the biodiversity equivalent of the Paris agreement on climate change, says the Environment Committee.
China's launch of a biodiversity fund is a "good start" but falls short of what is needed to help developing countries meet the goals in a global nature pact, environmentalists warned, urging all rich nations to step up ambition and funding.
Ecological civilization is really about multilateralism and a global convention, which requires the global community to work together, said a Chinese top official of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International recently.
China to set up multinational co-managed national parks to further protect species. A video on the activities of a herd of wild Asian elephants that went astray in Southwest China's Yunnan Province in September is shown on a big screen at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the ...
More than one world leader says humanity's future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit.
Humankind is decimating plant and animal species, with alarming consequences for the planet.
UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. The first phase of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China closed today with the UN expressing confidence the week long talks had helped set the stage for the ...
While world leaders and negotiators are hailing the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, many scientists are wondering what planet these leaders are looking at.
COP 26, a U.N. conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change, is running for the first two weeks of November.
Decision to move crucial talks to Montreal later this year spark renewed hopes crucial treaty to combat nature loss can be finalised
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15, kicked off on Monday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
SHARM EL-Sheikh, Egypt, Dec. 6 -- The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference in Egypt concluded with a broad international agreement on reversing the global destruction of nature and biodiversity loss threatening all forms of life on Earth. To combat this crisis, governments representing 196 countries ...
Next month, China is set to host a major UN environmental conference, after a delay of more than a year due to Covid-19. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), to be held in Kunming from Oct 11-15, will not be the first UN environmental talks ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping doubles down on China’s green strategy of balancing growth with ecological protection. What does it mean for biodiversity conservation? Let’s listen to the views of the United Nations chief on #biodiversity efforts.
The recently issued Kunming Declaration from the High-Level Segment of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference lays the foundation for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to be negotiated next year. Its stated goal is to reverse the extinction crisis and build an “ecological civ ...
October 11 marked the start of a major UN Biodiversity Conference known as “COP15” under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Leaders from around the world have gathered virtually to begin the process of setting new targets and goals for addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
he mood in Glasgow was optimistic on Tuesday as world leaders wrapped up their high-level summit at the COP26 climate conference. Several major announcements brightened the outlook on whether the meeting can achieve meaningful results.
Nearly 120 world leaders gathered in Glasgow on Monday to address what scientists and health experts say is the world's biggest crisis: climate change.
Minister for Africa Vicky Ford visited Côte d’Ivoire to attend the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP) 15.
Over the the next two weeks, the news will be especially environment-focused one as global leaders get together in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss net-zero goals, carbon markets, and green investments.
One of the biodiverse ecosystems on the planet is the soil beneath our feet. When healthy, a single gram of soil can contain tens of thousands of bacteria and fungi species, serving as the living foundation for all other ecosystems as well as of human food systems, clean water and safety from ce ...
Several rare wildlife species whose populations had dwindled over the years, with some on the edge of extinction, have made a remarkable comeback across China.
In November Boris Johnson will host the most important global meeting ever to take place on UK soil. The outcomes of this UN summit on climate change, known as Cop26, will help shape the fates of billions of people for decades to come. For the UK it is also the first big stress-test of its new r ...
Governments should take advantage of the third postponement of a United Nations biodiversity summit tasked with striking a global deal to protect nature by boosting ambition and finance for conservation and restoration, environmentalists said Thursday.
The world must act urgently to preserve ecosystems and biodiversity for the sake of a sustainable future and prosperity, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa said at the opening of a global event on biodiversity here today.
In September 2006, shortly before the annual UN climate talks to be held that year in Nairobi, Kenya, I looked for hope amid the predictions of ecological collapse and the total failure of countries to act on emissions. It was hard going. The best I could manage was to argue that political, soci ...
A United Nations biodiversity summit will be held in two parts, officials said late on Wednesday, confirming another delay to a much-needed global agreement to protect the planet’s nature.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan highlighted the necessity for global cooperation in the face of climate change, saying that all countries should shoulder responsibility and that Turkey will do all that is necessary to protect biodiversity.
World’s biggest protected area would stretch across borders from Andes to Atlantic
Thomas Østrup Møller, ambassador of Denmark to China, told CGTN host Tian Wei in an exclusive interview the nature does not respect borders. So when we are exploiting nature, it comes back and it will punish us. He also hoped that we are going to take some ambitious and decisive decisions at COP ...
Young people poured into the streets of Glasgow on Nov. 5, 2021, angry and impatient as the first week of the U.N. climate summit ended. Their anger is matched by anxiety in the conference halls as the enormity of what has to be achieved in such a short period of time hovers over a complex proce ...
The current gathering in Glasgow marks the 26th time UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the United States is producing more oil and natural gas than ever; the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere and global temperatures are both still rising; an ...
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is the most important climate summit since 2015, when the world agreed to strive to cap global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels--or, better yet, to 1.5 degrees--by substantially reducing greenhouse gas em ...
With national leaders gone from the U.N. climate conference in Scotland, attention turned on Wednesday to the state treasuries and the businesses and financiers responsible for carrying out the pledges to cut emissions and build infrastructure.
I am 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through protest. I don’t know exactly how to write a policy; what exact words or grammar should be used. I am not a scientist. I am a year 9 student. But through joining the School Strike for Climate (S ...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—Addressing mental health and healthy aging through greening of cities; organizing information systems on diseases and state of biodiversity in emerging disease hot spots; and listing and mapping endangered medicinal and nutritional species were among the immediate joint in ...
Australia continues its lead role to secure an ambitious post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, signing the Kunming Declaration at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’s fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) overnight.
New technology aircraft and jet fuel made from waste: the global air transport industry has outlined how to meet its new long-term climate goal during Transport Day events at the UN COP26 in Glasgow. This confirms the commitment of the world's airlines, airports, air traffic management and the m ...
FORMER US president Barack Obama has arrived in Glasgow ahead of his appearance at the COP26 climate summit. Obama was president as the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 at the COP21 summit in France.
Joe Biden returned to the US in the pre-dawn gloom on Wednesday to a climate agenda still held in frustrating limbo by Congress, following his high-profile cameo at crunch UN climate talks in Scotland that was heavy on dire warnings but light on deep cuts to planet-heating emissions.
Leaders from across the world are convening this week as part of the UN COP15 biodiversity conference, which kicks off with high-level talks aimed at setting global targets to reverse biodiversity loss. Here’s what you need to know.
The Kunming Declaration, adopted at the end of the UN Biodiversity Conference’s latest High Level Segment, which took place in Kunming, China, calls on the States Parties to act urgently on biodiversity protection in decision-making and recognise the importance of conservation in protecting huma ...
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (CMC) – A new coalition of organisations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has been launched to galvanise global leadership to focus on the urgent need to protect coral reefs in the Caribbean and other places from extinction within decades.
Findings in a recent co-sponsored workshop report compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) record that biodiversity loss and climate change are two of the most pressing issues ...
“Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October 13 2021, otherwise known as COP15.
Boris Johnson must urgently take control of the UK’s presidency of vital UN climate talks, amid a shower of green policy setbacks and growing concern over the lack of a coherent all-government climate strategy, senior international figures have said.
“People who exploit and take out resources don’t live (in the Amazon) – but we do. The forest is our home,” said Nemonte Nenquimo, a native leader of Ecuador’s Waorani people.
Minister of Primary Resources and Tourism Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Ali bin Apong attended the high level segment of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, themed ‘Ecological Civilization – Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth’, through video conference, hosted by the People’s Re ...
As the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) takes place remotely this month (October 11-15, 2021), chief executives of a number of major companies have signed an open letter from the Business for Nature coalition to world leaders, urging them to do more and to set more ambitious targets on biodive ...
Minister HAN Jeoung-ae introduced South Korea's carbon neutrality policies, including the Green New Deal during Part 1 of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held virtually from 11 to 15 October.