Swiss village threatened by vast rockslide must be evacuated again
A small Swiss village that attracted global attention last year when it was evacuated because the mountain face above it ...
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How the oceans fared at the COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia
The announcement came early on the morning of Oct. 31. Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, had finally agreed on a protocol for ...
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‘A big, big win’: plan to pay for wildlife conservation emerges at biodiversity summit
Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...
Global Deal on Nature Finance Thwarted in Overtime Talks at COP16
Negotiations fell apart at the 11th hour when the EU, Switzerland and other developed countries objected to the creation of a ...
UN nature summit agrees on payments for use of genetic information
The consultative body is considered a breakthrough in recognizing the role that Indigenous peoples play in conserving nature ...
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Mapped: How Big Ag, Pharma, Pesticides and Other Industries Hope to Sway the UN Biodiversity Talks
Banks that finance biodiversity destruction are at COP16 ... “country delegates”, which enables insider access to the negotiations. The delegations of Switzerland and Japan, for example, were expected ...
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COP16 chair hails biodiversity attaining 'equal footing' with climate crisis
Cali (Colombia) (AFP) – The world's biggest nature protection conference, under way in Cali, has placed biodiversity loss "on an equal footing" with the climate emergency, the meeting's ...
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Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find
A report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) evaluated global progress since its biodiversity report in 2020. Two years ago, 196 countries signed a historic treaty to protect ...