Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape is to raise climate change and the threat to his country's biodiversity at the UN...Marape said he hoped industrialised countries will help PNG to conserve its great biodiversity by mitigating the threat climate change poses.
Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate.
Migratory species are likely to be among the most vulnerable to plastic pollution, a new study released by the Secretariat of the UN's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) said on Tuesday.
On 5 December 2017, the United Nations declared that a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the ‘Ocean Decade’, would be held from 2021 to 2030.
Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by 2030 to stem extinctions and ensure humanity lives in harmony with nature. That is the suggestion from 195 countries in a proposed United Nations plan to tackle the global destruction of nature.
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss.
Dr Emma Lee is the first Indigenous Australian to author guidelines for an advisory body to the UN.
Climate change threats to life on Earth are systemic, interconnected and on a scale unprecedented in human history, the UN's climate science advisors have warned in a draft report...The report warns that after previous drastic climate shocks like the one currently facing the planet, the
Small island nations most threatened by climate change fear that they will also be the most likely to be disadvantaged if the United Nations climate talks to be held in Glasgow in November are disrupted due to the uneven global distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations...At large international confer
The world is running out of time to reach an ambitious deal to stem the destruction of the natural world, the co-chair of negotiations for a crucial UN wildlife summit has warned, amid fears of a third delay to the talks.
