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 - Finance for biodiversity is at the heart of COP17, both in the political negotiations and in the growing role of private finance. The latter was discussed primarily at side events hosted i...
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...
Lula has been elected president of Brazil for the fourth time. Yesterday, Sunday 25 October, at the end of a gruelling election campaign marred by irregularities, he beat his right-wing opponent Fla...
From risk assessment to the development of financial tools capable of supporting long-term initiatives, biodiversity raises challenges that call for greater integration between finance, public polic...
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...
Nature is not external to the economy. Fertile soils, available and good-quality water, functioning ecosystems and biodiversity constitute natural infrastructure on which production, value chains an...
Why, despite decades of awareness of the severity of the climate crisis, do we continue to respond in a timid and fragmented manner? In The Enigma of Climate Inaction. Why Are We Doing Nothing ...
COP30 comes to an end as a mirror of the current times. Multilateral cooperation on climate change barely survives, notwithstanding geopolitical tensions. Growing are the divisions between countries...
During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...
“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...
Climate negotiations are celebrating their 30th anniversary, with the start of the COP in Belém, Brazil, today, Monday 10 November. For the first time in years, I will be following a UNF...
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Some currencies are greener than others, and among the Asian ones, the Chinese yuan is currently t...
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At a time when the European Union’s commitment to climate action shows signs of wavering, th...
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Seven years after coming close to “Day Zero”, when Cape Town risked running out of wat...
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, the European debate on the role of finance has intensified, driven by the need to...