Bio-diversity policies

New Global Biodiversity Agreement: China to Host a Two-Part Summit on Nature 11-15 Oct 2021: UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15/COP-MOP10/COP-MOP4) - Part 1 (Virtual), including online high-level segment 25 Apr - 8 May 2022: UN...

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat on 12 July 2021 released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its...

EU Green Week 2021, Europe’s biggest annual conference focusing on environmental policy, took place from 31 May to 4 of June. This edition was dedicated to the topic of “zero pollution ambition”: EU Action Plan towards a Zero...

The Climate situation room event on 26 May 2021 organised by Friends of Europe, aimed at exploring the role digital and data governance plays for environmental policies. The event featured a panel of experts, including from the UN...

Today Izabella Teixeira (former Environment Minister of Brazil) and Janez Potočnik (former European Commissioner for Environment and Science) are colleagues as Co-Chairs of the UNEP/ International Resource Panel. A decade ago...

Never has there been a more pressing time to discuss our relationship with nature, as one million species are faced with extinction, our climate is in a crisis and our battle with COVID-19 is ongoing. Amid the pandemic, EU Green...

The 4th UN Environment Assembly gathered in Nairobi from 11-15 March 2019. The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It addresses the critical environmental...

Hello, I want to found a World Cultural Association, E.R.M.A. (European Rural, World Associations), to create this blessed institution, the president serves as the secretary and a counselor. You want to be the founder, (a person...

Environmental Crime Threatens Europe’s Last Pristine Forests and Iconic Wildlife A new UN report warns that illegal logging, illegal caviar trade, mass-killing of wild birds and poaching of bears, wolves and lynx threaten...