Cop15: Historic UN deal on biodiversity to protect 30% of land and water by 2030 ‘There has never been a conservation goal globally at this scale,’ experts say ...

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 ...

Global talks to protect biodiversity have restarted with a call for humanity to come together to “sustain life on the planet” and overcome a fight over funding that caused the previous meeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

High-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.

The United Nations’s acting head of biodiversity is calling for a global prohibition of so-called wet markets where live and dead wild animals are kept in cages and sold for human consumption.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse that scientists say could equal climate change as an existential crisis. By Catrin Einhorn As 20,000 government leaders ...

The world must make peace with nature or risk fueling more global conflicts like the war in Gaza, the president of the upcoming United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit said on Friday.