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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.

We meet in the wake of the Stockholm+50 conference, which marked 50 years since the birth of the environmental movement. This movement – with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at its heart – has achieved much.

As the UN Environment Programme reaches its 50th anniversary, we review its successes and shortcomings and how to strengthen its role in an era of deepening environmental crises

As I write this, India is baking in a heatwave that seems to have no end. In March, India suffered the highest temperatures on record for the month since authorities started collecting data in 1901.

Abstract -- The ties between a society and its local ecosystem can decouple as societies develop and replace ecosystem services such as food or water regulation via trade and technology. River deltas have developed into important, yet threatened, urban, agricultural and industrial centres.

The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) is currently scheduled to convene in Kunming, China, at the end of this month (although at the time of writing, it is looking increasingly likely that it will

Next week, officials will meet in Geneva for the next round of negotiations for the global biodiversity framework. High on the agenda is the need to connect climate change and nature, including mobilising finance that delivers outcomes for both. Yet, as Nora Nisi and Ebony Holland explain, there is still a long way to go to achieve this

CORDIO is very pleased to announce that our Director David Obura has been nominated to Co-Chair one of the two big IPBES assessments for the next 3 years, on the interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food and health, dubbed the ‘Nexus Assessment’.

New financing was announced at COP26 to support Indigenous peoples and other local communities (IPLCs) to strengthen, secure and protect their land. We look at the recent research that shows IPLCs contribute significantly to climate mitigation.

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