The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee established by the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) with  to “End plastic…
As COP27 closed today, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, expressed its concern over the slow progress in tackling the climate crisis. At the same time, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ welcomed the clear recognition of the key role that Nature-based Solutions can play in addressing climate change,…
Bringing the Ocean and People Together: IMPAC4
Led by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, a manual to support EU Member States and other stakeholders with incorporating animal welfare into their management of invasive alien species (IAS) of Union concern has been published.
Based on the volume of tailings releases and the distance they travelled, the Fundão Dam failure in southeast Brazil (Mariana, Minas Gerais state) was the largest ever environmental disaster in Brazil’s mining industry, and one of the world’s most serious. As they dispersed downriver, the…
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 17 November 2022 (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) – Today, the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) signed a multi-year Framework Partnership agreement. The agreement will see Luxembourg provide critically important core…
The GEF–GCF long-term vision aims to spearhead a new, ambitious common approach to tackle both climate change and biodiversity loss head-on. This joint event aims to identify solutions for optimizing the partnership between the GEF and GCF to finance and implement climate action and biodiversity…
Science is clear that we cannot address the climate crisis without addressing the biodiversity one, and vice versa. Yet now they occur in parallel processes within the UNFCCC and CBD, respectively, with insufficient alignment. The challenge of how to find and strengthen convergence remains.