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World Insights: Post-2020 global biodiversity framework to dominate key UN conference-

The adoption of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework is top of the agenda at a major upcoming United Nations conference as the world faces "the greatest loss of species on Earth since the dinosaurs demise."

Environmental leaders are gathering on Montreal to hammer out a framework they hope will help provide much-needed protection for the world's biodiversity

Over 300 experts from around the world met between September and October 2022 to officially launch the production of the 7th edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), the flagship report of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The GEO-7, expected to be presented to the 7th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) by 2026, provides an integrated and holistic environmental assessment of pathways to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Over 2,500 in-person and virtual delegates from 147 countries, engaged in the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-1) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. The meeting set the foundation to shape the global instrument to end plastic pollution, with many governments confirming their desire to have an instrument that addresses the full life cycle of plastics, protecting human health and the env...

The ‘30x30’ proposal is supported by more than 100 countries but Indigenous peoples and human rights campaigners have significant doubts

Australia heads to the UN Global Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada (COP15) seeking to lead calls for other nations to join a global pact to protect

‘If we truly want to tackle the crisis that people see around the climate, then it is about changing our lives, changing how businesses make money, and changing how the government puts policies together. That is not for the next generation or the next decade; it is here, now!’ say the authors o...

Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, manage, or restore natural ecosystems, and are already well-documented to be critical to any response to

COP27 has ended but the enormous amount of fossil fuel investment remains the elephant in the room.