Unity in diversity

Nagoya Protocol: inter-governmental committee to hold a third meeting

When and where the negotiating parties will meet is yet to be decided

Will India ratify the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol?

 Protocol needs serious inter-ministerial deliberations, says MoEF official

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

Amazonian biodiversity: Indigenous convoy to bring focus to threats during Montreal summit

Non-profit Amazon Watch, among others, to participate in COP15 CBD

World hasn’t met a single Aichi biodiversity target: Leaked UN Report

While there has been progress, it is insufficient, according to the document

US launches global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade

7th GEF Assembly: Global Biodiversity Framework Fund ratified

First projects under the new Fund likely to roll out ahead of CBD’s CoP16 

WTO: a mock battle

A year of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: How far have we come?

Decisions deferred to 2024; slow progress might make it difficult to meet targets by 2030

SBSTTA-25: Delegates move forward on recommendations to implement Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Synergy between climate change & biodiversity recognised; work on indicators to continue till next meeting  

Biodiversity meet begins; India takes over presidency of CBD

CoP 11 will decide future course of action plans to meet Aichi Targets

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

Signatory to biosafety

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs

US $50 million to protect biodiversity in India

Manmohan Singh says the challenge is to develop new models of inclusive conservation

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

In Short

Developed countries to double biodiversity-related funds flow by 2015

Provided developing countries make robust baselines and reporting framework

First GBFF council meeting takes baby steps for biodiversity

Operational matters discussed, but nothing on resource mobilisation

CBD’s Geneva meetings: Benefit sharing on traditional knowledge & digital sequence information on agenda

Recommendations to be presented at upcoming meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical & Technological Advice as well as COP16

"The North is driven by the industry"

Christine von Weizsaecker is a senior microbiologist based in Wuppertal, Germany and the vice-president of Ecoropa, the premier European …

Can Montreal help communities: DTE’s coverage on access and benefit-sharing in the run-up to COP15

Benefits arising from the use of biodiversity have not been shared equitably with communities who have protected it for centuries

Why the world is worried about this new biotechnology

In the Convention on Biological Diversity, a moratorium on biotechnology, like genetically engineered mosquitoes, takes centre stage