Apr 30, 2023 | Biodiversity
The easy part – formulating goals and setting targets – is done. Now it’s on the parties (this time) to deliver on their high-aiming promises. In 2018, the UN Environment Programme’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report plainly laid bare that...
Mar 9, 2023 | Biodiversity
Lacking the fanfare and media reach of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) that was held in Montreal just weeks later was a more lowkey affair. Created at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the...
Dec 21, 2022 | All Posts, Biodiversity
Results of COP15 Heading into the CBD COP15 all eyes were on the 30 by 30 target, an ambitious goal that set out to protect 30% of the planet’s natural areas – both land and sea – by 2030 [2]. With over 100 countries pledging their support to the...