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COP15 Women key roles in conservation need to be recognizes
Tuesday, representatives from different organizations shared their insights on gender equality in biodiversity policy at the COP15 in Montreal. According to Archana Soreng (India) member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, environmental policies that…
COP15: rich countries under pressure to accept a new biodiversity fund
Pressure is mounting on rich countries, called upon to finance efforts to protect the biodiversity of developing countries with a fund to implement the “peace with nature pact” being negotiated in Montreal. Developed countries, including Canada, oppose it. Mobilization of…
COP15 communities and indigenous peoples must be at the center of discussions and negotiations and not “big money”
After a week of mostly glacial deliberations, are COP15 negotiators any closer to reaching agreement on a global plan to reverse biodiversity loss? According to World Wide Fund (WWW) officials, what happened in week one is not ambitious enough to…
COP15 – March for Biodiversity and Human Rights in Montreal
The COP15 Collective, the CBD Alliance and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, along with Greenpeace Canada, marched with more than 3,500 people despite the freezing cold today in Montreal. While COP15 is the most important global meeting on biodiversity for…
Corporate capture and 1 million species at risk of extinction globally COP15 – Friends of the Earth
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction and many of them within decades according to scientists and researchers. On December 5th, Friends of the Earth International released…
Civil society raises alarm over the slow pace of COP15 negotiations
On day three of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) negotiations, frustrations are growing and sources have reported an alarming lack of overall progress. Ministers and high-level representatives are set to arrive next week. Substantial progress must be…
Experts from four continents condemn false solutions to the biodiversity crisis: Nature for Business, 30×30 and Biotechnology for Biodiversity COP15
So-called “solutions” to the biodiversity and climate crises are being developed, not for the protection of biological diversity, but to ensure the unsustainable continuation of business as usual. The Global Biodiversity Framework being negotiated at COP 15 includes proposals for…
Corporate Capture infiltrates and influences the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15
The installation of a 20 feet tall jenga tower in the main pavilion at the Montreal Convention on Biological Diversity signifies risk of ecosystem collapse if an ambitious global biodiversity plan is not agreed at COP15 but is also a…
There can be no agreement to save nature without inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities COP15
The global biodiversity framework to save nature must respect, promote and support the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities if it stands any chance of succeeding. In this press briefing at the opening of COP15, members of the International…
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