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Mediterranean Biodiversity Network: from ecological urban planning to management in the Mediterranean – subnational cooperation and knowledge transfer

15 - 17 May 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)

A Long Island couple says fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity starts at home. Or rather, right outside their suburban house.

Meeting of Subnational Governments in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

24 - 27 April 2012, Curitiba, Brazil

Meeting on Parliamentarians and Biodiversity

25 - 26 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Mensaje de Sr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Secretario Ejecutivo del CDB, en la ocasión de la XXIX asamblea ordinaria parlamento latinoamericano, Panamá, 18 -19 Octubre de 2013

Message from the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Cities Day

Message of the CBD Executive Secretary, Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the World Cities Day, 31 October 2014

Message to mayors: cities need nature

My home town of New Delhi is battling with air pollution, contaminated water supplies and heatwaves. Just last November, schools were shut for more than a week because of untenable air quality.

Mobile forests could help cities cope with climate change

Cities across Europe are trialling schemes such as roof gardens and ‘mobile forests’ to embed more nature into urban areas in an effort to protect their citizens from climate change events like heatwaves, floods and droughts.

Montreal plans to create the biggest urban park in the country

The City of Montreal wants to create the largest urban park in Canada on the West Island.

Montreal to deploy scare teams to shoo away urban coyotes

The team will also train people how to react when they see a coyote, screaming and waving so the animals don’t get comfortable in the company of humans.

More oxygen, cleaner air for Chennai as civic body plans to set up 1,000 urban forests

The residents of Chennai will now breathe in cleaner air as the municipal corporation is mulling the setting up of 1,000 urban forests. The Greater Chennai Corporation commissioner G Prakash said that the government will set up more forests in vacant places across the city.

More young and other traits help mammals adapt to urban environments

Species of mammals that live in urban environments produce more young compared to other mammals. But along with this advantage, mammals have other strategies to successfully inhabit cities. This is what Radboud University ecologist Luca Santini and colleagues found in a study that they will publ ...

Most of the world now lives in cities. But even for those living in rural areas, the lifestyle and modes of production and consumption are critically affected by urban needs and requirements for goods and services.

Museum to launch national programme to protect urban nature as it announces plans to transform five-acre London gardens into the nation’s urban nature ‘epicentre’

Leading a coalition of museums and wildlife organisations, the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project will not only transform its London gardens into a biodiversity hub, but critically it will create an urban nature movement through a UK-wide learning programme for young people, families ...

Narrated by Edward Norton, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity, the video outlines the opportunities for biodiversity protection presented by future urbanization.

Natural habitats of 30 cities around the world at risk due to ‘coastal hardening’, study suggests

Artificial structures have replaced more than half of the coastline of 30 cities around the world, according to new research suggesting coastal infrastructure will have a significant ecological impact if not well managed.

Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart

There was literally a frog orgy in that one. There is no other way to describe it,” says Jules Waite, from the London Wildlife Trust, pointing at a pond in the Barbican wildlife garden, one of the few areas of London’s Square Mile whose inhabitants are not in lockdown.

Nature takes back world's empty city streets

As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities.

New Global Assessment: Maintaining rich biodiversity in and around cities is possible and can greatly improve global sustainable development

Increasing urbanization over the next decades presents not only unprecedented challenges for humanity, but also opportunities to curb climate change, reduce water scarcity and improve food security, according to the world's first global assessment on the relationship between urbanization and bi ...

New York City Becomes 200th City to Join Global CitiesWithNature Initiative

New York City has become the 200th city to join CitiesWithNature, a global partnership initiative that strengthens collective action and impact to protect biodiversity and reconnect urban communities with nature. New York is taking up this leading position alongside London, Los Angeles, São Paul ...

New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods

Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves back, one shell at a time.

New study will use bike sensors to see how much trees cool our cities

A Concordia University researcher will mount sensors onto a fleet of bikes to detect just how much trees are cooling down streets and urban spaces.

One million urban trees

Now that the one millionth tree has been planted by Greening the West in Melbourne’s western suburbs, there are one million more ways for urbanites to connect with nature.

Opening Remarks by Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Cities for Life Summit, Hyderabad, India, 15 October 2012

Opportunities for exchanges on subnational and local implementation in conjunction with the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/OH/85504 (2016-037)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points

Opportunities for synergies with Habitat III Conference

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/NP/OH/85959 (2016-110)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points

Paris halves street parking and asks residents what they want to do with the space

Paris is set to remove half of its 140,000 on-street car parking spaces as it seeks to make the city greener and more people friendly.

Penny wise and pound foolish? NYC budget needs to consider the interconnectedness of the city's infrastructure

It has been four months since rain from Hurricane Ida flooded the streets and homes of New York. The subway stations and basements in all boroughs that were flash flooded made the news for a couple of weeks, but may soon be forgotten.

People and nature in an urban world

Humanity is facing an existential contradiction: we are building an urban future for ourselves, yet urbanisation in its current form is threatening the very future of humanity and the natural world. Urban growth is a seemingly unstoppable worldwide process.

Prague: The circular European capital you haven’t heard about yet

Lying at the heart of Europe is a city otherwise known as the City of a Hundred Spires, renowned for its abundance of gothic architecture and UNESCO world heritage stamp. But one thing you may not know about the Czech capital of Prague is that it has fast become a trailblazer in establishing a l ...

Press Release: Biodiversity Conservation can Improve Human Health in World’s Growing Cities, says UN assessment

Press Release: Managing biodiversity data from local government: Guidance for local authorities on publishing through the GBIF network, helping preserve knowledge about biodiversity

Protection of urban wetlands crucial

Environment Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu last week gave a chilling warning: all wetlands in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities will disappear within 20 years if municipalities continued on their current model of development.

Rapid urbanization is driving biodiversity decline

Humanity is currently experiencing an unprecedented era of urban growth. By 2030, more than 1.2 billion additional people are expected to live in cities, equivalent to building a city the size of New York every six weeks.

Regional Workshop for East, South and Southeast Asia on Cities and Biodiversity, 21-24 May 2014 - Qingdao, Province of Shandong, China

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/NP/OH/AM/cr/83169 (2014-035)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, DPR Korea, Republic of Korea, Lao DPR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam

Regional Workshop for East/South/Southeast Asia on Cities and Biodiversity

21 - 24 May 2014, Qingdao, Province of Shandong, China

Release of First Greater Hyderabad City Biodiversity Index

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the local authority of Greater Hyderabad City which is the host city of CBDCoP-11. GHMC is also looking after the biological diversity elements of the city as per the provisions of the Indian Biological Diversity Act 2002 & The Andhra Pradesh B ...

Report of the Third Expert Workshop on the Development of the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity, 11-12 October 2011, Singapore

Reference: SCBD/STTM/OH/fs/78394 (2011-235)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I would like to inform you that the final report and documents related to the Third Expert Workshop on the Development of the City Biodiversity Index (CBI), also known as the Singapore Index (SI), held on 11–12 October 2011, in Singapore City, Singapore, have been posted online at http://www.cbd ...

Researchers take stock of how Canada's urban forests protect our health

Montreal's urban forest has a big impact on human health, and yet researchers are just starting to count the trees, and the benefits.

Review of draft guidelines to support the subnational implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/NP/OH/CE/86325 (2017-020)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Rewilding London’s urban spaces

Rewilding is an approach to conservation that lets nature return areas of land to a wild state. The process involves allowing ecosystems to restore themselves over time, so they can recover from degradation.

Rewilding cities will improve public health

Growing more native plants in cities will increase microbial diversity and combat the rise of non-communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, South Australian researchers say.

Rewilding our cities: beauty, biodiversity and the biophilic cities movement

Our cities are dominated by glass-faced edifices that overheat like greenhouses then guzzle energy to cool down. Instead, we could have buildings that are intimately connected to the living systems that have evolved with us, that celebrate the human-nature connection that is central to our wellb ...

Rwanda Prepares the Foundations for Climate-Resilient Cities

KIGALI, Jul 15 2019 (IPS) - How do you plan a resilient city? A city that can withstand climate change impacts, and the natural disasters that it produces at increased frequencies.

Sacred sites in Bengaluru: Where heritage helps conserve biodiversity

In India’s IT capital Bengaluru, sprinkled within its concrete jungle, are shady peepal trees adorned with serpent stones, bells and sacred threads, standing majestically atop gated raised platforms.

Sadiq Khan leads ambitious plans to rewild Hyde Park

London mayor releases £600,000 funding to help create green rooftops and reintroduce lost species

Save bees and butterflies to save urban life

Pollinators such as bees, hoverflies and butterflies, are responsible for the reproduction of many flowering plants and help to produce more than three quarters of the world’s crop species. Globally, the value of the services provided by pollinators is estimated at between $235 billion and $577 ...

Second Curitiba Meeting on Cities and Biodiversity

6 - 7 January 2010, Curitiba, Brazil

Second Expert Workshop on the development of the City Biodiversity Index

1 - 3 July 2010, Singapore City, Singapore