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Biodiversity Meet Suggests New Guidelines on Synthetic Biology Amid Persisting Questions
After a week-long discussion by delegates from 196 countries, the 26th meeting of the Subsidiary Body of Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advisors (SBSTTA) of UN Biodiversity has conclude...
Ocean Action on Global Agenda as Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen
The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ever live on Earth and billions of the tiniest, the top 100 meters of the open oceans host the majority of sea...
SBSTTA and SBI—Biodiversity Meetings Crucial for the Global South Begin
More than 1,400 delegates are present at two crucial meetings, where the topic of preserving the planet's ongoing biodiversity for the benefit of humanity is under discussion. Under the spotlight...
Biodiversity Masterplan: Negotiations on Crucial Science, Technology for Implementation Underway
The triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and waste are escalating. At the current pace, the world is on track to lose one quarter of all plant and animal speci...
UN Secretary-General’s message for World Press Freedom Day
The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations. People need to know about this – and journalists and media ...
Rainy Chiloé, in Southern Chile, Faces Drinking Water Crisis
The drinking water supply in the southern island of Chiloé, one of Chile’s rainiest areas, is threatened by damage to its peatlands, affected by sales of peat and by a series of electricity pr...
We Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
In a world faced with habitat loss and species extinction, climate change, and pollution, it’s crucial that countries develop their national action plans and create a society that lives in harm...
Harnessing Science-Policy Collaboration: The Vital Role of IPBES Stakeholders in Achieving Global Nature Targets
In December 2022, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) saw governments worldwide unite behind a set of ambitious targets aimed at...
Small Island States Fostering Effective Energy Transition To Achieve a Blue Economy
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a distinct group of 39 states and 18 associate members, are making efforts to promote the blue economy as they possess enormous potential for renewable ene...
UN Live’s CEO Katja Iversen Talks About the Power of Popular Culture and ‘Sounds Right’
UN Live’s CEO, Katja Iversen, says the way to engage people in the environment is through popular culture—film, music, gaming, sports, food, and fashion. She is excited about the Sounds Right...
‘Toasting the World’s Most Natural Talent’: UN Museum Campaign Recognizes NATURE’s Contributions to Music
Spearheaded by the Museum for the United Nations, a new campaign brings together music and ecology to spark people’s interest and engagement in environmental conservation through consciously li...
Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy sources are driving the process. “W...
No Turning a Blind Eye to Protection of Dominican Republic’s Natural Resources, Says Environment Minister
Ahead of the Dominican Republic’s elections, IPS spoke to Miguel Ceara Hatton, Dominican Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, about the challenges of protecting the environment as cl...
Can Preserving Goa’s Khazans Address Climate Threats?
Growing up in a khazan ecosystem, the traditional agricultural practice followed in the south-western Indian state of Goa, Elsa Fernandes would love sitting in a koddo, a woven bamboo structure f...
Why Farmers in India and Pakistan Are Shifting to Natural or Regenerative Farming
Regenerative farming is seen as a climate solution, with advocates saying that it is the most straightforward way to benefit the planet's health and ensure food security. It is growing in popula...
Conservation Efforts by Ethnic Communities in Bangladesh Bolster Water Security
Just a few years ago, Sudarshana Chakma (35), a resident of the remote Digholchari Debarmatha village under Bilaichari upazila in the Rangamati Hill District, had to traverse a long hilly path to...
Exploring New Depths: NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Driving Innovative, Diverse Ocean Observation
The Ocean Frontier Institute is hosting the fourth Nippon Foundation-Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography. The immersive programme is...
Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities
Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest in Chimanimani,...
The Ups and Downs of Control of Transgenic Crops in Mexico
Mexico has taken important steps to protect native corn, even standing up to its largest trading partner, the United States, to do so. But the lack of a comprehensive legal framework in its polic...
UN Environmental Assembly Call for Action to Address Planetary Triple Threat
The Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) ended with delegates calling for firm actions to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and pollution. T...
IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment
At the tenth session of the IPBES Plenary, held in Bonn, Germany from 28 August – 2 September 2023, the IPBES Thematic Assessment of Invasive Alien Species and their Control was accepted and it...
‘I Haven’t Forgotten Where I Came From,’ says Yvonne Pinto, Incoming IRRI Chief
Growing up on a small farming station in Holetta (Ethiopia), Yvonne Pinto would accompany her agriculturist father to the farm, where she would spend her time cross-fertilizing plants. Her tiny f...
Bali’s Ancient Canine Guardians on the Brink of Extinction
Bali’s Island’s ancient canine guardians, the proud descendants of lineages tracing back tens of thousands of years, stand on the brink of extinction. Culling triggered by rabies outbreaks an...
Coastal Indigenous and Minority Women Driving Kenya’s Blue Forest Conservation Efforts
Fish vanished from the sea near Tsunza, a village on Kenya’s coast, after several oil spills between 2003 and 2006. The impact of this and the vanishing mangroves badly affected the livelihood...
Smallholder Farmers Are Key to CGIAR Response to Hunger Crisis
Dr Ismahane Elouafi has her work cut out. As the new executive managing director of CGIAR, a global network of agricultural research centers, her mandate, simply put, is to tackle the world’s m...
State of the World’s Migratory Species Report ‘Alarming’ Threats, Global Action Urged
The United Nations inaugural assessment of the state of global migratory species states that 1 in 5 faces extinction and warns that the world cannot afford to miss this chance to act on recommend...
Rwanda’s Biodiversity Conservation Gains Momentum With Bird Sounds Recording
Claver Ntoyinkima wakes up early in the morning, at least three times a week, and goes into the Nyungwe rainforest to record bird vocalizations. Ntoyinkima is one of several community members in...
Climate Change Is Taking a Major Toll on Agriculture. Here’s How to Support Farmers
ASIF SALEH, Executive Director, BRAC
New Era: Unlocking Africa’s Agriculture Potential Through CGIAR TAAT Model
As hunger and food insecurity deepen, Africa is confronting an unprecedented food crisis. Estimates show that nearly 282 million people on the continent, or 20 percent of the population, are unde...
Why Should Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss Be Tackled Together?
Find the answer in this interview with Frédéric Castell, Senior Natural Resources Officer at FAO Follow @IPSNewsUNBureau
Amidst a Horrendous 2023, Civil Society is Fighting Back Society
The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating ‘natural’ disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records broken as our ...
Caribbean Confidence High Post COP28, But Vigilant Follow-Through on Key Deals Needed
Buoyed by USD 800 million in pledges to the Loss and Damage Fund and an unprecedented agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, but grounded in the reality of the work ahead to meet key cli...
COP28: Deal to ‘Transition Away’ From Fossil Fuels Agreed
It was an extraordinary COP Summit in a year characterized by record-breaking temperatures combined with El Niño, producing a climatic carnage in Africa—deaths from fatal floods in the Democra...
Charting Out a Sustainable Path for Island, Coastal Communities Facing Climate Crisis
There is an irreparable connection between culture and the seas: loss of land due to rising sea levels and loss of livelihood due to changing fish migration patterns are having a massive impact o...
Africa’s Negotiators Urged to Leverage on African Science at COP28 High Table
African scientists and researchers are concerned that the data shows that the continent is being cornered by the spiraling effects of climate change, that the real impact of climate devastation i...