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Join us for the presentation of the Kunming - Montreal Biodiversity Package, highlighting the global biodiversity framework and related elements that will enable its implementation, notably, mechanisms...

Today, global negotiations concluded on the landmark Treaty of the High Seas to protect the ocean, tackle environmental degradation, fight climate change, and prevent biodiversity loss. The...

Twenty-three years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11...

Despite strong evidence that human activity played a role in catastrophic weather events, and the emergence of a fuel crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, greenhouse gas emissions continued...

Statement by President von der Leyen on the Kunming-Montreal biodiversity agreement.

This side event to UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15/COP-MOP10/COP-MOP4) is organized by the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) in collaboration with the European Commission and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)...

Today starts the United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15 meeting in Montréal. From 7 to 19 December, countries will aim to reach a global agreement for the protection of nature...

At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15 meeting in Montréal, from 7 to 19 December the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) will support...

The main objective of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) is to adopt the post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the next decade. The latest information from the organizer, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity...

This paper assesses how the norms defining Secretariats' functions differ and also reflect on actual functions for three MEAs, namely (1) CITES (2) CBD and (3)...