By Rita Joshi BONN | SAMARKAND. 13 September 2023 (IDN) — At least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land were degraded every year between 2015 and 2019, affecting food and water security globally and directly impacting the lives of 1.3 billion people, according to the latest UN data. This adds up to 420 […]
Restore-Rewild-Remind Urges 2030 Global Diversity Framework
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA 7 July 2023 (IDN) — The 2030 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted last December by the 196 State Members of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It was the first international conference designed to move into the implementation of GBF and to support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Biodiversity was also the topic […]
UNDP: “A Record $500 Million” to Help Combat Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change
Paris Agreement Committed a Minimum of $100 Billion Annually By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK 5 July 2023 (IDN) — Though only a drop in the ocean, as part of its rapid response to environmental crises around the world, such as biodiversity loss and climate change, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has decided to […]
Southern Africa Looks Forward to Productive Landscapes
By Rita Joshi BONN, Germany, 19 May 2023 (IDN) — The largest living structure on earth, spanning 8,000km across Africa, is ushering in a new era of sustainability and economic growth. A game-changing African initiative launched by the African Union in 2007 aims to restore the Sahel’s degraded landscapes and transform millions of lives, according […]
UN to Focus on Sustainable Management of The World’s Forests
By Radwan Jakeem NEW YORK, 5 May 2023 (IDN) — The sustainable management of the world’s forests will take centre stage at the United Nations Headquarters in New York at the UN Forum on Forests on 8-12 May 2023. Officials from UN Member States, the UN system, international and regional organizations, will gather to discuss […]
Kenyan Tree Planting Activist Remembered with Call to Invest
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — The Wangari Mathai Foundation observed the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai’s birthday on April 1 with a call to invest in the planet. “Wangari literally invested her life from a young age in this planet,” foundation CEO Njeri Kabeberi said. […]
Forest Elephants Enhance Carbon Capture—Keep Them Alive
By Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon, 11 March 2023 (IDN) — While African forest elephants have traditionally been thought of as playing a destructive, negative role in forests, the big munchers are now seen as critical to saving a climate in peril. Scientists now suggest that the perceived destructive nature of the African forest elephant […]
A Landmark UN Biodiversity Agreement Achieved
By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) — Countries around the world have agreed on a historic package of measures aimed at addressing the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems. The agreement was achieved after a two-week-long 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity on December 19. Convened under […]
Climate Deal Disappoints Climate Activists
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (IDN) — Delegates to the UN climate conference (COP27) reached a compromise to create a fund for disadvantaged countries coping with climate disasters worsened by pollution, mainly from wealthy nations. The meeting of almost 200 countries, ending on November 20 after two weeks […]
Growing Urbanization Chewing Away Forests in Southern Africa
By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — In Harare, the Zimbabwean capital’s medium-density suburb known as Glaudina, where a thick forest used to exist, homes under construction have emerged instead, with the trees vanishing. North-West of Zimbabwe, just outside Lusaka, the Zambian capital, slums and shacks have also, over the decades, replaced the once flourishing […]