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#135089
2022-06-28

The three global agreements that could change the future of the oceans

The oceans cover about 70% of the planet’s surface and are the main regulators of global climate. They produce much of the oxygen we breathe and support enormous biodiversity, far richer than what we see on land. But they don’t always get the recognition they deserve.

News Headlines
#119058
2018-12-17

The whole world finally nods to enforce Paris Climate Change Agreement rules

Nearly 200 nations have agreed to enforce rules on implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.

News Headlines
#131737
2021-11-16

The world has made more progress on climate change than you might think, or might have predicted a decade ago

It must be painful for Boris Johnson to be a footnote, especially a footnote in French, but at the end of a very long two weeks, there were always only two outcomes possible at the UN climate summit in Glasgow. A Copenhagen-style meltdown, putting the implementation of the Paris Agreement on hol ...

News Headlines
#122626
2019-10-11

The world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change, IMF says

A global agreement to make fossil fuel burning more expensive is urgent and the most efficient way of fighting climate change, an International Monetary Fund study found on Thursday.

News Headlines
#120219
2019-03-05

There Really, Really Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Climate Change

When the fate of the planet is at stake, a single precedent starts to seem like a blueprint. Most Americans, as far as pollsters can tell, want the United States to honor its commitment under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

News Headlines
#119047
2018-12-14

These Tiny Island Nations Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change

The ongoing negotiations on how to implement the Paris Agreement aren’t going well.

News Headlines
#135367
2022-07-20

This Supplier Engagement Program Promotes Pollinators and Biodiversity

The urgency of environmental challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss is mounting. Scientists are sounding the alarm of a sixth mass extinction, with 30 to 50 percent of all species on Earth expected to be lost by the middle of this century. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

News Headlines
#126201
2020-12-11

Tipping point? Experts say the Paris agreement changed the climate on climate

Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. "I've always known we're not going to act as soon as we could have," said Mark Jaccard, a widely consulted energy economist at Simon Fraser University.

News Headlines
#124909
2020-03-26

To Meet Paris Agreement Targets, India Should Pay More Attention to Soil

The nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement typically include afforestation and reduced deforestation as additional carbon sinks. The first Biennial Transparency Reports for NDCs submitted in 2015 are due in 2022 for developed countries to 2024 for developing countries. ...

News Headlines
#123745
2020-01-16

To save biodiversity, MEPs call for binding targets at global and EU level

MEPs want the upcoming global biodiversity conference COP 15 to agree on legally binding targets, as was the case for the Paris agreement on climate change. Parliament adopted its position in view of the 2020 UN biodiversity conference (COP 15), in Kunming (China) in October by show of hands.

Notification
#2553
2016-10-21

Tools, guidance and information related to biodiversity and climate change in the context of the Paris Agreement

Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/SG/SK/AC/86047 (2016-127)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

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Notification
#2287
2015-02-12

Tools, guidance and information related to biodiversity and climate change in the context of the expected climate agreement

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/AC/84278 (2015-015)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

pdf English 
News Headlines
#122908
2019-11-07

Toward a Global Biodiversity Accord

The 2015 Paris climate agreement was made possible when countries realized it was in their own interest to commit to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. But a similar understanding of the need for stronger conservation policies has yet to take hold, putting the world's ecosystems increasing ...

News Headlines
#123055
2019-11-19

Towards a global biodiversity accord

The 2015 Paris climate agreement was made possible when countries realised it was in their own interest to commit to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. But a similar understanding of the need for stronger conservation policies has yet to take hold, putting the world’s ecosystems increasing ...

Side Event
#978
BS COP MOP 3
2006-03-16

Trading Precaution: The Precautionary Principle and the WTO

This side event draws on the UNU-IAS report "Trading Precaution: The Precautionary Principle and the WTO". This report examines the debate on the evolution of the precautionary principle in the context of the WTO. It clarifies proposals to enhance the incorporation of this principle in the rules ...

Side Event
#2321
COP 10
2010-10-27

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)

India has setup Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a tool to prevent mis-appropriation/bio-piracy of its Traditional Knowledge at International Patent Offices. TKDL contains information in 34 million pages in a patent application format in five International languages i.e. English, ...

News Headlines
#132947
2022-02-04

Transboundary river basins connect countries and require effective cooperation

Water cooperation between Finland and Russia is well-functioning. The countries share 19 major river basins and cooperation on all shared waters is coordinated by the joint Finnish-Russian Transboundary Water Commission. The Commission's work builds on a set of progressive bilateral agreements t ...

Side Event
#726
COP 8
2006-03-20

Transnational Cooperation on Management of Fresh Water: the Guarani Aquifer

Presentation of legal research and case studies from representative regions as potential models and a draft agreement for management of the Guarani Aquifer (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) building on article published in Texas Law Review, June, 2005 by Benjamin, Tinker, Lima Marques

Web Announcement
#20937
2006-04-05

Tree Planting Initiatives Planned to Offset Environmental Impacts of Biodiversity Meetings

Following three weeks of meetings of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held in Curitiba, Brazil, the Governor of the State of Paraná, Mr. Roberto Requião, and the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, signed an agre ...

Press Release
#20936
2006-04-05

Tree Planting Initiatives Planned to Offset Environmental Impacts of Biodiversity Meetings.

Following three weeks of meetings of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held in Curitiba, Brazil, the Governor of the State of Paraná, Mr. Roberto Requião, and the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, signed an agre ...

News Headlines
#132431
2022-01-12

Tumble dryers found to be a leading source of microfibre air pollution

A single tumble dryer could be responsible for releasing 120m micro plastic fibres into the air each year, a study has found. Tumble dryers are one of the main sources of microfibre pollution in the atmosphere, according to research by Prof Kenneth Leung, director of the State Key Laboratory of ...

News Headlines
#125529
2020-11-04

U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord After Trump Stalls Global Warming Action for Four Years

The U.S.’s exit from the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement takes effect today, capping four years of President Donald Trump aggressively rolling back the Obama administration’s climate-change-mitigation policies. The acceleration of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions on Trump’s watch has ...

News Headlines
#125557
2020-11-05

UK campaigners set out plan to meet Paris agreement and beat Covid recession

A decade-long rollout of home insulation and heat pumps to replace gas boilers is urgently needed to enable the UK to meet its climate obligations and recover from the Covid-19 recession, campaigners say.

Press Release
#111479
2016-12-18

UN Biodiversity Conference results in significant commitments for action on biodiversity

Agreements reached on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

Press Release
#128382
2021-05-02

UN Biodiversity Conference virtual meetings to address key Cartagena Protocol Biosafety issues

Montreal, 2 May 2021 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides international rules that seek to ensure an adequate level of protection to biodiversity and human health, focusing on transboundary movements of living modifi ...

News Headlines
#121106
2019-05-20

UN Environment and Saudi Arabia sign deal to strengthen environmental protection

19 May 2019 – UN Environment and the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a strategic cooperation agreement today to strengthen environmental protection and safeguard natural resources in the Kingdom.

News Headlines
#133667
2022-03-02

UN agrees to create global plastic pollution treaty

The United Nations approved a landmark agreement to create the world's first ever global plastic pollution treaty on Wednesday, describing it as the most significant environmental deal since the 2015 Paris climate accord.

Press Release
#122081
2019-09-02

UN biodiversity convention opens talks on global agreement to safeguard nature and secure our future

2 September 2019 – Following a summer of dramatic heat waves and forest fires, and close on the heels of a landmark scientific report charting an unprecedented decline in nature, the global community came together from 27-30 August in Nairobi to deliberate over an appropriate response.

News Headlines
#130905
2021-10-16

UN biodiversity talks in China end in funding pledges to reduce loss of species

China, the European Union and Japan were among countries pledging to spend more on slowing down the rapid loss of species at talks this week in China to prepare for a new global biodiversity pact. But critics says the final agreement amounts to a "toothless tiger"

News Headlines
#121029
2019-05-13

UN chief: Climate change 'running faster than we are'

Countries failing to live up to commitments under the 2016 Paris agreement to keep global temperature rise at bay.

News Headlines
#119067
2018-12-17

UN climate accord 'inadequate' and lacks urgency, experts warn

The world has been put on notice that its best efforts so far will fail to halt the devastation of climate change, as countries came to a partial agreement at UN talks that failed to match up to the challenges faced.

News Headlines
#123663
2020-01-13

UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction

Almost a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by the end of the decade to stop and reverse biodiversity decline that risks the survival of humanity, according to a draft Paris-style UN agreement on nature.

News Headlines
#133632
2022-03-02

UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya's capital to find holistic solutions to today's environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end ...

Press Release
#101209
2014-10-03

UN meeting agrees decisions to advance the implementation of the International Agreement on the safe use of living modified organisms

Governments attending a United Nations meeting on the safe use of living modified organisms have agreed on various actions to advance the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity

News Headlines
#125982
2020-12-03

UN secretary general: humanity faces climate 'suicide' without US rejoining Paris agreement

This article originally appeared in the Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The Guardian is the lead partner in CCN.

Press Release
#101449
2014-10-13

UN treaty bodies renew partnership to save tropical forests’ rich treasure of biological resources

Pyeongchang, 13 October 2014 – The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) – the United Nations treaty-based organization uniquely focused on tropical forests – and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) renewed a partnership agreement to enhance biodiversity c ...

News Headlines
#133621
2022-03-01

UNEA 5.2: UN assembly to come up with an agreement on plastic pollution

The fifth session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA 5) is expected to come up with an agreement March 2, 2022 containing measures to tame the global plastics menace.

News Headlines
#133665
2022-03-02

UNEA adopts landmark deal to end plastic pollution by 2024

The gavel on Wednesday came down on a historic resolution at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) here to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.

Meeting
#622
News Headlines
#129776
2021-07-29

UNEP Says A Global Agreement is Needed to Address Plastic Pollution

This month is Plastic Free July which is celebrated across the globe. It encourages millions of people to be part of the solution to the single-use plastic waste problem at home, work, school, and even at restaurants. So, we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities.

Meeting Document
#107202
2016-02-12

UNEP/CBD/BS/CC/13/INF/2

Updated Information on Experience of Compliance Mechanisms under Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Meeting Document
#29285
2013-07-17

UNEP/CBD/BS/CC/3/2

Information and Experience Regarding Repeated Cases of Non Compliance under the Compliance Mechanisms of Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Meeting Document
#40528
2013-07-17

UNEP/CBD/BS/CC/4/2

Further Information and Experience Regarding Repeated Cases of Non Compliance under the Compliance Mechanisms of Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Meeting Document
#63644
2013-07-17

UNEP/CBD/BS/CC/6/2

Information on Reporting Rates and Related Experiences under Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Meeting Document
#6447
2003-12-11

UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/1/INF/5

Liability and redress (Article 27)<br>Compilation of information on national, regional and international measures and agreements in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from the transboundary movements of living modified organisms

Meeting Document
#41976
2013-07-17

UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/4/2/ADD1

Further Information and Experience Regarding Cases of Repeated Non Compliance under the Compliance Mechanisms of Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Meeting Document
#1233
2002-02-23

UNEP/CBD/BSWG/2/3

Background Document on Existing International Agreements Related to Biosafety

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