A ‘people’s COP’ to heal the planet: UN biodiversity ... - UN News
15 hours ago · 20 October 2024 Climate and Environment. Secretary-General António Guterres urged delegations from some 190 countries to “make peace with nature” and shore up a plan to stop habitat loss, save endangered species, and preserve our planet’s precious ecosystems as the latest UN biodiversity summit got under way in Cali, Colombia on Sunday ...
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11 hours ago · Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history, an intergovernmental panel of scientists found in 2019. It estimated that a million species were in danger of extinction.
Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on ...
18 hours ago · The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity. Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference, in host city Cali, Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
UN biodiversity summit opens with call for 'significant' funding - Phys.org
11 hours ago · So far, countries have made about $250 million in commitments to the fund, according to monitoring agencies. The fund is part of a broader agreement made in Montreal two years ago for countries to ...
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3 days ago · Learn about the loss of biological diversity - biodiversity - in forests, rainforests, aquatic environments and open land. What are the biodiversity hotspots? Read about biodiversity...
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10 hours ago · Two years ago, nearly every country on Earth signed on to a landmark agreement to protect the fast-eroding natural world.. It was celebrated as the “Paris moment” for the world’s threatened and endangered plants, animals and ecosystems — a global pledge aimed at slowing biodiversity loss in the same way the Paris Climate Agreement aimed (and so far has failed) to drastically cut ...
Oxford University academics to advocate for ambitious nature …
21 hours ago · Launching today, the United Nations Conference of the Parties for Biodiversity (COP16) will bring together governments from nearly 200 countries to decide on actions to meet the agreed target to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. A delegation of more than thirty University of Oxford researchers will be following the proceedings, both in-person and online,
Biodiversity - Latest research and news | Nature
5 days ago · Biodiversity is the variation in living forms and can be measured in ways that include the number of species, functional variety of species, evenness of species distribution or genetic diversity.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Biodiversity is being lost at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. But the United Nations decade-old plan to slow down and eventually stop the decline of species and ecosystems by 2020...
Break free from pollution, climate chaos and 'biodiversity ... - UN News
Jun 4, 2024 · Failure to curb runaway pollution, climate chaos and biodiversity destruction are clear for all to see. Healthy, fertile lands are transforming into deserts, thriving ecosystems into dead zones...