UN biodiversity conference offers a chance to manage pressing ecological destruction NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the executive secretary of the United Nations ...

An African rain forest landscape, HANDOUTAs ministers gather in Nairobi this July for the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), the world will again focus on Africa’s response to ...

In Montreal, where negotiations for this decade’s UN biodiversity targets are entering their frantic final stages, the absence of the US political machine is noticeable, changing the power ...

UN biodiversity conference focuses on whether worldwide efforts to protect land, water are working Published: Oct. 17, 2024, 6:58 a.m. Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island ...

Mark L. Goldberg [00:00:00] Can you explain to listeners why is biodiversity an important topic for international cooperation at a UN forum like this (COP15)? John Reid [00:02:00] Biodiversity, like ...

The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, is being held in Cali, Colombia. The international meeting is the first since countries in 2022 adopted a landmark deal aimed at halting and ...

This year’s biodiversity talks — known as COP16 — were dubbed at the outset as a chance to implement protections. At the midpoint, they’ve become a “COP of encouragement,” Astrid ...

A historic agreement was reached Monday at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Canada that aims to increase protections for the world’s lands and oceans. It comes as the planet ...

UN’s Biodiversity Summit Starts With Gridlock Over Details. COP15 opened without agreement on draft language that would set up high-level negotiations at the two-week conference in Montreal ...

UN sets 2030 biodiversity deadline to combat possible mass extinction. An estimated 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. By Julia Jacobo. January 14, 2020, 12:53 PM.

This week, the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) wrapped up in Montreal, Canada. Nations from around the world came together to establish a new set of goals to help preserve the planet's ...

A virtual opening session will be held from Oct. 11 to 15 and in-person negotiations will be held from April 28 to May 8, 2022 in Kunming, China to finalise an agreement, the UN biodiversity body ...