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Representatives from 196 countries are meeting in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, this week to discuss the best plans and a post-2020 framework to save the shrinking biodiversity on the planet. The meeting will run until Sunday and is being held under the banner of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

Surprisingly, more than 90 countries, including the United States — which has always been resistant to environmental issues — agreed to the United Nations goal of preserving 30 per cent of land and 30 per cent of sea for preservation of biodiversity by 2030, and this has been termed “30 by 30”. Chinese Environment Minister

The UN is asking countries to designate 30 percent of their land and sea areas for conservation by 2030.

UN says global pact to halt biodiversity loss in sight-

The international community is inching closer to agreeing on a binding framework to reverse biodiversity loss, tame the climate crisis and promote sustainable development, senior UN officials said.Speaking at the fourth meeting of the ...

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 ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first global environment summit in 1972 at Stockholm - the “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”. The summit led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which in 1973 launched World Environment Day with the intention of establishing “a global forum for inspiring positive change”. The goal is

The oil and gas industry is choking the atmosphere with a heat-trapping gas stronger than CO2 — despite cheap, fast and easy fixes.

“Priorities Maxwell!!! There’s t increased fuel prices, higher cost of living, rising inflation, not to mention COVID, Monkeypox and other health issues and you choose to write about “noise”?? Well……yes. It’s been on my mind ever since moving to the countryside and there are plenty of literary material around on…

To win real climate action, we need to clearly show how that benefits people – and talk more frankly about the risks of inaction