Susana Muhamad is Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the biodiversity Cop16 conference in Cali. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
Humanity risks catastrophic global…
The carbon-credit market must reform or “go out of business”, leading scientists have concluded in an international review of the offsetting industry.
The market for carbon offsets shrank…
Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study.
Analysis published in the journal…
Half of all the world’s mangrove forests are at risk of collapse, according to the first-ever expert assessment of these crucial ecosystems and carbon stores.
Human behaviour is the primary cause of…
The EU’s nature restoration law will only work if it is enacted in partnership with farmers, a group of leading scientists has said, after months of protests have pushed the proposals to the brink of…
Inger Andersen said we must not ‘pause for a second’ as we ‘change the relationship between people and nature’
The UN’s environment chief has urged citizens, businesses and governments to “not…
António Guterres calls for end to destruction of nature as Canada pushes proposal to protect 30% of Earth
Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction and governments must end the “orgy of…
Before Cop27, Lee White also says broken promises on funding leave sense of betrayal
The world will only take meaningful action on the climate crisis once people in rich countries start dying in…
Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest doubled in just two decades and are accelerating, research says
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than…
Billionaires, princes and prime ministers are among those keen to learn from the Central American country, which has long put nature at the heart of its policies
If there had been a popularity…
Philanthropists pledge to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030, as the planet’s health climbs the charity agenda
When their time comes, many of the richest people on Earth have committed to giving…
Study finds agriculture and pesticide use threaten relatives of world’s most important crops, considered crucial to food security
Wild relatives of some of the world’s most important crops,…
Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’.
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds,…
Nature’s financial value must be considered to avoid ‘irreversible’ degradation to biodiversity and land.
The world needs to quadruple its annual investment in nature if the climate, biodiversity…
The red list of species at risk is well-known, but the list for protected sites is quietly helping to ‘paint the planet green’
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President says the time is finally right for international agreement to tackle biodiversity loss and global heating.
When it comes to the environment, few countries rival Costa Rica in terms of…
Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on…
A plan to create the first universally recognised list of species on Earth has prompted hopes of an end to centuries of disagreement and confusion over how to classify the world’s library of life.…
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