Nature

February 18, 2020
The conservation community must be able to track countries’ progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues.

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Since 2010, targets for conserving species have shaped policy and galvanized efforts to halt species loss worldwide, as part of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Yet no such targets exist for ecosystems — despite the wealth of evidence showing that their health and functions are essential to the processes that maintain all life.

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China Dialogue - OpEd

February 18, 2020
The Convention on Biological Diversity needs a legacy that can stand the test of time, not a cosmetic victory, argues Li Shuo.

There are just eight months left to make progress on a framework to protect biodiversity for the next ten years. It is of global importance that the October meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Chinese city of Kunming helps the world to stop biodiversity loss.

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National Geographic

February 18, 2020
Today, 23 former foreign ministers from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific released a statement calling for stronger conservation protections of land and oceans for the sake of –as well as national security.

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China Dialogue

February 2, 2020
Negotiations are ramping up on a new framework for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Can they deliver a new deal for nature?

Dubbed by some “the other COP”, UN negotiations over biodiversity targets and a new international framework for nature restoration and conservation have not had the same media or political profile as those on climate change. 

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Convention on Biological Diversity

January 31, 2020
Due to the ongoing situation following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019, the Secretariat, in consultation with the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the COP Presidency and the Working Group Co-Chairs, has decided that the second meeting of the Working Group will take place in Rome, Italy at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the same dates.

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Climate Home News

January 29, 2020
UN agencies and the Chinese government are holding consultations to decide whether next month’s meeting can go ahead as planned.

A UN meeting to advance efforts to protect the world’s biodiversity due to take place in China next month could be relocated  following the coronavirus outbreak. 

The meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is planned to take place in the southern city of Kunming, in the Yunnan province, from 24-29 February. Hundreds of biodiversity experts and policy-makers from across the world are due to attend.

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