Climate Change and Biodiversity Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?
Mark McCrindle coined the term 'Generation Beta' to refer to those born on or after January 1, 2025. In every aspect of their life A.I and digital connectivity will play…
Biodiversity
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
by Justine Bell-James and James Watson Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal,…
Biodiversity Crisis: A Question of Earth’s Future
Biodiversity and environmental conservation have become some of the most pressing global concerns today. The diversity of life on Earth, the interconnections between species, and the balance of natural ecosystems…
The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis
ADDIS ABABA – Our long-term prosperity and the well-being of future generations are in jeopardy, as biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems not only threaten our environment, but…
COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and…
UN CBD COP’s breach of the ROP: CBD COP doesnt have a legal advisor
To The Secretary General United Nations CC: The Executive Secretary CBD Secretariat Your Excellency, Greetings. The adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework by the CBD COP15, early this week,…
UN Biodiversity COP15: Agreement Signed
On Monday, at the UN’s COP15 biodiversity conference in Canada, more than 190 countries approved an agreement to declare 30% of the planet as a protected zone by 2030 and to…
Montreal Biodiversity COP15 December 2022
What is it about a bunch of high-ranking people getting together at a Conference of the Parties (COP) at some major metropolitan center with plenty of 4-star and 5-star hotels…
Amendment of Biodiversity Law Will Weaken Protection Efforts and Rights of People
The importance of protecting biological diversity has been increasingly realized all over the world in recent times. This realization came in the wake of several disturbing trends such as very…
Kunming Declaration & Biodiversity Fund Set a Path toward a More Just Global Biodiversity Framework
In August 2019, in the middle of heavy monsoon rain and floods, my sister Sudakshina Sen (an avid wildlife photographer) and I arrived at the Western Ghats in southwest India,…
The United States Must Rejoin the Global Biodiversity Conservation Community
Snow geese, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. After spending the winter in New Mexico, the snow geese go to the Arctic (Alaska, Nunavut, Siberia) for nesting and…
Bridge the North-South divide for a UN Biodiversity Framework that is more just
This month, the leaders of nation states from around the world have been gathered in New York City to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Covid, climate…
Birds and Biodiversity : The Pillar of life on Earth
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears ,as close to us and everyone in the world as universal as birds David Attenborough A…
Biden on Biodiversity: The Silence and the Promise
On January 6, 2021, as many of us in the United States were glued to TV watching the horrors of the insurrection against the U.S Capitol, the AFP News in…
Protecting Indigenous Languages is Protecting Biodiversity
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address…
Need to update EIA norms for preserving biodiversity
To Shri R P Gupta Secretary Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MEFCC) Government of India Dear Shri Gupta, The National Environment Policy, 2006 (NEP) emphasises the…
Fetishising ‘The Number’: How Not To Govern Pandemics, Climate and Biodiversity
As the pandemic continues to dominate public politics around the world, a single number – the reproduction rate (R) – has become the focus of policy-making and public communication. Keeping…
Happy International Biodiversity Day
The National Green Tribunal had asked all States to finish preparing People's Biodiversity Registers by end of January 2020. This made various States make greater efforts to mobilise volunteers in…
Highlights Of A New Seminal Paper On Indian Forest Management Reform
The new paper ‘A Framework for Reforming India’s Forest Biodiversity Management Regime’ by Dr S. Faizi and Dr M. Ravichandran published in the UN journal Natural Resources Forum in its…
Governments Planning To Spend Near Zero Cents Per Person On Biodiversity Conservation
There are professionals from NGOs and academic institutions associated with supporting developing countries to make their biodiversity plans for 2018-2022. Some NGOs and academic institutions are good and some…
The Great Seed Piracy
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations — which are becoming fewer and larger through…
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