Biodiversity
20 Dec
• Increase finance flow for developing nations to $20b by 2025 • Summit is missed opportunity to protect rights of indigenous peoples, says AI About 196 countries, yesterday, agreed to protect a third of the natural world by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity. The Guardian learnt that details of the deal,…
17 Dec
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), United Nation World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), and Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (SHA) have called on the Travel and Tourism sector to adopt a vision to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
22 Aug 2022
Stakeholders have expressed dismay over the massive depletion of forests, loss of biodiversity and other environmental, as well as social factors that have left negative tolls
20 Jun 2022
A non-Governmental organisation, the Coalition for Biodiversity Conservationists of Nigeria (CBCN), has called for concerted efforts to save the world’s fast-depleting biodiversity.
6 Jun 2022
As the world, yesterday, marked the World Environment Day (WED), experts expressed concerns that climate change and people’s poor attitude to the environment wreck the ecosystem
3 Jun 2022
To mitigate the effects of climate change, a United Nations-backed coalition of 1,000 stakeholders from over 100 countries, consisting of Nigeria, yesterday, launched an action plan to steer digitalisation
30 Mar 2022
Following 15 days of negotiation in Geneva, world governments have produced a strong basis for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework to safeguard the health of the planet
27 Mar 2022
As the global community considers the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework through the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), key stakeholders, yesterday, raised concerns
14 Mar 2022
Experts have called on African countries to implement broad-based action that would transform in society’s relationship with biodiversity.
25 Oct 2021
Amid the devastations caused by human interactions on the environment and biodiversity, experts have urged environmental journalists to focus on the dissemination of climate change information
31 May 2021
A new initiative that will change the narrative of biodiversity conservation in Nigeria and promote the participation of rural dwellers has been launched in Gashaka, Taraba state.
24 Aug 2020
Irked by the catastrophic biodiversity loss in the African continent, experts have called for the reversal of human-induced threats and unsustainable management practices across Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region.