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A global framework for addressing biodiversity loss could come in December, officials with the Convention on Biological Diversity announced.

Making the most of sustainability science, for Africa and for coral reefs. This page brings together CORDIO's inputs to global science-policy processes from 2019 to 2022, representing a transition in our work from coral reefs to the broader goals of sustainability science. This work has been framed by the critical decade of action from 2020

Let me begin by congratulating you on ten years of the Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative, or PSI. This, the largest collaboration between the United Nations and the insurance industry, is incredibly important.

Reports suggest repeatedly delayed Kunming Summit is now set to be hosted in Montreal this December

Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) is part of an international group of scientists who published a joint letter in the June 17 issue of Science, just prior to the next round of international negotiations on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (June 21-26 in Nairobi, Kenya).

Letter from scientists, ecologists come at a time when it has become evident that China is dragging its feet on locking a decision

139 countries get funds to take fast action on nature ahead of global agreement on biodiversity National governments eligible for new grants of $300,000 from the GEF to update and align biodiversity protection plans with expert guidance from UNDP and UNEP Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework expected to be adopted later in 2022 will aim to halt and reverse biodiversity loss within a decade With global biodiversity loss at dangerous levels, 139 countries have received a lifeline to fast-track ...

When plant systematist Elliot Gardner first began collecting samples of a fruit-bearing tree in Malaysian Borneo, he thought he was looking at just one species. Western taxonomists had long considered both the cultivated and wild types of Artocarpus odoratissimus, a close relative of breadfruit and jackfruit, as a single species. But time and again, Indigenous […]

Scientists have calculated that the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this year were made twice as likely by the effects of climate change. Scientists have calculated that the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this year were made twice as likely by the effects of climate change. With at least 435 people dead and massive damage to homes and infrastructure, South Africa has received a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of nature, society and the economy.

The Consulate General of South Korea in Montreal and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are jointly hosting a conference titled "30 Years of Biodiversity: A Legacy from Rio to Future Generations" on June ...