With over 1,200 sites and a mandate to safeguard both natural and cultural heritage, the UNESCO World Heritage Convention is ...

The oceans—engines of life on Earth and our single greatest climate regulator—are caught in a catch 22. We urgently need to ...

Carbon markets allow entities that emit greenhouse gases such as airlines, factories, or governments to offset their ...

Brazil's National Biodiversity Commission (Conabio) has established new national biodiversity targets for the period 2025 to 2030 and recommended a new set of measures for the National ...

More than half of the world's total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or ...

At the Montreal biodiversity talks in 2022, nations agreed to create a means by which payments for the use of this digital information could be collected to fund biodiversity work.

A new study co-authored by BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart and published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals ...

Countries can avoid conflict between biodiversity conservation efforts and renewable energy development by using proactive ...

Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research reveals.

World leaders must take advantage of a pivotal window of opportunity for forging a much-needed joined-up approach to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, say scientists. Without this, work ...

The European Commission launched a 'Roadmap towards Nature Credits', to incentivise private investments into actions that protect and preserve nature, and ...

After 20 years of intense debate, the world looks set to have a treaty protecting marine life out beyond national waters.