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...
Restoring marine ecosystems, the second challenge of the Ocean Decade
As part of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Ocean Decade), UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission released ten White Papers, each addressing complementa...
Startup, protecting forests and indigenous communities in the Andes with Acción Andina
The 7,000-kilometer-long Andes Mountains, which make up only 1% of the earth's surface, are home to a rich and diverse ecosystem. There are 15% of all plant and wildlife species, including more than...
Wang Yao: This is How China Finances Biodiversity
China is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Its 960 million hectares of land include mountain ranges (such as the Himalayas) and plateaus, vast deserts and immense grasslands, boreal...
Air quality networks can also monitor biodiversity around the world
Sixth mass extinction and climate crisis, unfortunately, go hand in hand, but they are not the same thing. When we speak of mass extinction, we are referring to the massive loss of biodiversity on a...
Panamericana and biodiversity, empathy can save the world
It has been almost 2 years since the 15th of July 2022 when I took the plane that allowed me to verify with my own eyes, how much and in which form human activities are changing, sometimes irreparab...
World Wetlands Day, the forgotten link to human well-being
The 2nd of February marks World Wetlands Day, in other words, lagoons, bogs, ponds, and lakes. Cradles of often endangered biodiversity covering only 6% of the Earth's surface, and yet these ecosyst...
Acque Bresciane: 1,500 Trees to Protect Peatland Biodiversity
On the 7th of October, an unusual scene played out on a marshland reserve in Northern Italy, on the banks of Lake Iseo in the foothills of the Alps. A team from Acque Bresciane – the util...
Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024
2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...
Ten words for 2024
Another year has come to an end. There are those who reflect on these past twelve months while others prefer to look to the year ahead. We of Renewable Matter, who by nature are always looking ...
Restoration Law: there is an agreement, but it is still far from what science requires
Late in the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2023, negotiators from the Parliament, Commission and Council reached a tentative political agreement on the European law on nature restoration. After a ...
Man and Forests: It's All a Matter of Timescale
Time, complexity, resilience. These are the three key concepts on which the health and survival of any forest ecosystem is based. Three interrelated characteristics in a tight cause-and-effect chain...