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Global attention on biodiversity governance has once again turned to Kunming, Yunnan Province. On September 6, the “Kunming Dialogue: Global Review of Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” opened, bringing together senior representatives from China, Canada, Armenia and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to build consensus ahead of COP17, to be held next month in Yerevan, Armenia. At a crit

NEW YORK — Supporting 240 million smallholder farming families to adopt regenerative agriculture could help produce the additional food needed by the world’s growing population through 2050 while restoring degraded land and ecosystems, according to a new book launched during Climate Week NYC. Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation, by development expert Hugh Locke, argues that smallholder farmers — among the least-supported producers in gl

After nearly three weeks of negotiations, Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity acknowledged that the world is not on track to meet its 2030 biodiversity targets. The Nairobi meetings addressed key issues including wildlife conservation, protected areas, marine biodiversity, biodiversity finance and the reform of harmful subsidies, while reviewing the first global progress report on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The report shows that while

Nairobi, 12 August 2026 — Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity concluded nearly three weeks of negotiations in Nairobi, reaching crucial consensus on scientific, technical, and implementation issues. This paves the way for decisive intergovernmental negotiations at the UN Biodiversity Conference, including COP 17, to be held this October in Yerevan, Armenia. The meetings reviewed the first progress report of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity begin two weeks of deliberations today to consider key findings of the first global assessment of progress against the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) and to identify ways to accelerate implementation. The assessment is part of a wide-ranging agenda in Nairobi focused on scientific, technical, and implementation matters leading to recommendations for the 2026 UN Biodiversity Conferenc

A new report by United Nations University warns that the extraction of critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt—essential for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and AI—is imposing severe environmental and health costs on vulnerable communities in Africa and South America, deepening global inequality. The report stresses that the so-called “green transition” comes at a price: while wealthy nations reap technological benefits, mining communities face water pollution, scar