While progress on corporate climate action can be frustratingly slow, we can be buoyed by the fact that most big businesses now understand their impact on the climate; and by and large, they ...

Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so. There were high hopes that the Colombian hosts could coordinate action between developed and ...

The five Rio Convention Presidencies—UNFCCC COP30, CBD COP16, CBD COP17, UNCCD COP16 and UNCCD COP17—issued a joint call to accelerate cooperation across the Action Agendas for climate, biodiversity ...

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16 held in Cali, Colombia from 21 October to 1 November was set to be a key moment to drive implementation and iron out details of the Global ...

The COP16 biodiversity summit ended on a mixed note. Delegates from 177 nations agreed to language saying that companies “should” pay conservation fees for genetic digital sequence information (DSI) ...

From October 21 to November 1, over 190 countries will convene at the sixteenth conference of the parties, COP16, for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to drive global action to protect ...

For years, conversations around sustainability have focused on the global issues of climate change, carbon emissions, and pollution. But land degradation, drought, and desertification, caused by ...

The European Union (EU), one of the main partners in organizing COP16 on biodiversity, which opens Monday in Cali, Colombia, hopes this forum will be the moment to “move from words to action.””We ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in United Nations talks, ...

David Attenborough is famously credited for calling the climate crisis a communications issue, and is one of the many reasons why I chose to become an environmental educator. Currently, the ...

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon ...