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Just over a week on from the end of COP26 in Glasgow and the dust is settling. But as Andrew Norton reflects, any gains made from the event will require ongoing work and citizens demanding more radical action

If the local context and priorities of those who most directly rely on natural resources for their survival isn’t considered, conservation efforts will continue to fail.

We are now an urban animal: 68% of people will live in urban areas by 2050. Tackling the health of nature in cities is key to our wellbeing and prosperity.

Just in time for the UN’s policy push for “30 x 30” – 30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030 – a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes underpinning all life. A month before the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP26) kicked off in Scotland, […]

/CNW/ - Climate change and biodiversity loss are intrinsically connected, which is why a coordinated approach to tackle them both is essential. Nature-based...

The Caribbean Development Bank yesterday joined with the world’s other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in a global pledge...

1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Rome on October 30th and 31st, to address today’s most pressing global challenges and to converge (...) [Voltaire Network]

The global leaders at the just-concluded G20 Summit committed to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, apart from many other concrete decisions.

WWF has come under fire at a U.S. congressional hearing over its funding of rangers who allegedly carried out rights abuses against Indigenous peoples and local communities in Africa and Asia. Members of the House Committee on Natural Resources and former U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, John Knox, said at the […]

ROME, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The 16th Group of 20 (G20) Leaders Summit, which was held both online and offline on Saturday and Sunday in the Italian capital of Rom