Yerevan - COP17, the Conference of the Parties responsible for implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework, the global roadmap for protecting nature and the ecosystem services on which the human ...
With just four years left to the2030 deadline, global biodiversity negotiations are seeking to move beyond promises and addressing implementation and international finance. From 19 to 30 October, th...
Yerevan - Perhaps the Kunming-Montreal Global Agreement on Biodiversity should have been called the ‘Agreement on Food Security and Nature’s Services to the Economy’. Brutal and Ca...
Yerevan - With the high-level segment of the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP17) now underway, attention is turning to a key issue: financing for nature, including the mobilisation of ...
More than 7 trillion dollars a year flow into activities that damage nature, compared with roughly 220 billion for nature-based solutions: a ratio of more than 30 to one, according to UNEP's State o...
Yerevan - Monday, 26 October marked the start of the second week of COP17, the UN negotiations on biodiversity. The Meridian Expo in Yerevan, Armenia, is ready to welcome ministers from member count...
So the idea that major investors do not care about the climate, and that the world of finance is turning its back on the energy transition, is not true. Despite Trump and his followers, the people w...
“The world can no longer avoid exceeding the 1.5°C threshold, and the consequences are already devastating: deadly floods, brutal heatwaves, uncontrolled wildfires, lives lost, economies c...
The summer of 2026 saw extreme heatwaves and prolonged droughts that affected the European continent on several occasions. According to Copernicus, by the end of the summer, 52% of Europe had e...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: Ursula von der Leyen quoted Dickens’s words describing the period of the French Revolution at the opening of her State of the...
For decades, preserving heat to protect people from the cold has been the priority for much of the European construction industry. Today, however, architecture faces a different challenge, one incre...
Climate change and air pollution are closely interconnected phenomena, yet they are almost always analysed separately. On the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, on 7 September 2026, the ...
Trabzon - “The seas have no passports.” On the Black Sea coast in Trabzon, Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and COP31 President-Design...
The warning signs were clear to anyone paying attention, given the numerous consecutive heatwaves, but Copernicus data have now confirmed it: August 2026 has entered the climate record books as the ...
There is one word that Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stopped using, replaced by a different one. The first is aid. The second is compensation. The speech refers to the disast...
Global temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next few years, according to a new UNEP report, Limiting Overshoot, published today, 2 September. The t...
Twelve days of negotiations, 196 Parties, and more than 110,000 people attending across the Blue Zone and Green Zone. In the end, COP17 on combating desertification, held in Ulaanbaatar, one of the ...
In Sanskrit, the name Himalaya means “abode of snow and ice”. Unreachable and eternal, the glaciers of the Earth's tallest mountains were also considered to be the dwelling place of all ...
An enormous mass of debris, water and mud swept away buildings, roads, bridges and thousands of people within moments, many of whom are still missing. Terrifying images are emerging from Nepal, wher...
Can the law serve as a tool to halt ecological collapse? Can it shape professionals who defend life—not just in courtrooms, but in communities? In the midst of a climate crisis and deep territ...