COP16 Desertification, the negotiations on soil protection are underway
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Approximately 15 million km² of land − an area larger than Antarctica − has alrea...
COP16 Biodiversity, Countries to Resume Crucial Discussions in Italy in February 2025
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The UN Biodiversity Conference suspended earlier this year in Cali, Colombia, will reconvene ...
COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a troubled launch, as countries scrambled to discuss a few of the trickier points of the neg...
Startup, PlantBit: sensors to optimize irrigation and fertilization of plants
This article is also available in Italian / questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Plantbit, a spin-off startup of the National Research Council, has developed Bioristor, an el...
Nature-based Solutions amid science and economy: interviews from RM53
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of Renewable Matter Issue 53, dedicated to Nature-based Solutions, features...
Building with Nature in the Netherlands
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Considered among the richest places in the world, delta territories are hubs of innovation, biodiv...
Bíos
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese How could we trump almost 4 billion years of research and development? Since the appearance of the ...
COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - COP16 in Colombia ended a day later than scheduled, amid a blend of disillusionment an...
COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - In a significant development at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Conv...
Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali, Colombia - Reporting and knowledge form the foundations of implementing the Global Biod...
COP16, the gordian knot of biodiversity finance
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano From Cali, Colombia - On the 30th of October a group of 20 ministers from the global south vo...
Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - On Saturday morning, 27 October, puffy rain clouds loomed over the Pacific Valley Exhi...
3Bee: Monitoring biodiversity, climate and nature to account for impacts and dependencies
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The first step in protecting the planet's biodiversity is to have accurate, homogeneous data that ...
Jeff Opperman (WWF): "Protecting nature is not enough; we must restore it"
This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Wildlife populations have decl...
COP16 Colombia 2024 Biodiversity: how to participate (also online) and which events to follow
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Inírida flower, is called the “eternal flower” because of its extraordinary...
At COP16 Colombia 2024, biodiversity negotiations are ready to start
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The sixteenth round of negotiations on biodiversity kicks off in Cali, on Monday 21 October , foll...
Startup, Olombria: pollination with hoverflies and precision technology
In a scenario where bees are declining due to industrial agriculture, pathogens, biodiversity loss, pesticide use, and climate change, the London-based Olombria offers farmers solutions for pollinat...
SDG6, UN: Half the world’s countries have degraded freshwater systems
This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On 28 August, during World Water We...
COP16 Biodiversity, progress on DSI, the mechanism for sharing genetic resources
How can territories be rewarded for the commercial exploitation of plant and animal biodiversity in the fields of medicine, chemistry, food or materials, using these economic resources to protect bi...
COP16 Desertification, interview with Alain-Richard Donwahi
Desertification is one of the main drivers of migration and food crises. Along with the UN negotiating processes on Climate (UNFCCC) and Biodiversity (CBD), since 1992 there has been a dedicated tra...