Road to COP16: Two subsidiary bodies of Convention on Biological Diversity begin talks in Nairobi

The outcome of the discussions will be presented at COP16 in Colombia in October for consideration

Biosafety issues get a push

Experts to study socio-economic aspects of GMO release

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

Exercise in non-performance

A biopiracy coup

Can the recent convention on biodiversity be called that?

Should we play weather god?

Debate continues despite consensus to ban geoengineering

Punishing the brats

Species in peril

India is among the top 10 countries threatened with high species loss

Elusive pact

CoP 11: No consensus on resource mobilisation

Jayanthi Natarajan hopeful of Parties agreeing on a final document 

7th GEF Assembly: Decision on direct funding to civil societies likely during the meeting

More funds would be needed to make this possible without alienating governments

Biodiversity meet: Parties disagree on resource mobilisation

Contact group to now fix individual financial targets for countries

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

‘Future 50’ food items identified in new report

It also emphasises that food diversity across the world is being lost

Still vexed

Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders

Benefit barred, access denied

CBD to hold COP-8 in WTO shadow

Nations to share genetic resources

Activists call the text of the agreement vague

Whose wealth?

Save our rice

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity

Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

COP15 Montreal: Breakdown in talks on resource mobilisation; delegates walk out 

Does this impasse indicate a rift that could derail the Framework?   

Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss

Small carnivores don’t typically get as much public attention as larger species