Ban Ki-moon: World on course to run out of water
Writing to mark International Day for Biological Diversity, the UN secretary general says water security and biodiversity are mutually reinforcing
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Conservation or carbon sinks: Can the UN see the forest for the trees?
Forests play a key role for the UN’s climate change and biodiversity agencies. Melati Kaye investigates whether they can they serve the goals of both simultaneously.
EU plans to protect 30% of land and seas by 2030 for biodiversity
The European Commission set out a strategy to overhaul farming and strictly protect carbon-rich forests and wetlands, to benefit wildlife
$300 billion a year needed to save biodiversity
The new chief of the United National Convention of Biological Diversity has said saving biodiversity will cost the world $300 billion a year but warned doing nothing would cost much more.