Tag: Biodiversity
a historic agreement on biodiversity adopted in Montreal
After long hours of negotiations, the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity in Montreal on Monday adopted the principle of a “global framework for biodiversity”, a roadmap of 23 objectives to…
Draft at COP15: Rich countries should invest billions annually for biodiversity
The announcement came on Sunday from the UN meeting on biodiversity in Montreal, Canada, where Romina Pourmokhtari (L) is one of hundreds of environment ministers participating in the negotiations. According…
controversial dam project threatens migratory bird sanctuary
While China is presiding over the COP 15 on biodiversity in Montreal, a dam project is being debated in the Middle Kingdom. It concerns Lake Poyang, the largest freshwater lake…
fierce battle around the issue of pesticides in Montreal
This is one of the most sensitive points of the negotiations on biodiversity at COP15 in Montreal: the reduction of pesticides. These chemicals, used in large quantities in agriculture to…
in Montreal, the conference on biodiversity gets into trouble with the question of funding
Cop15, the UN conference on biodiversity, enters the tough negotiations this Thursday with the arrival of ministers from different countries. They will tackle the most sensitive points of the discussions…
in Montreal, protesters demand “actions” for biodiversity
In Montreal, thousands of people marched to the call of some sixty environmental defense organizations as well as indigenous organizations from Canada and the Americas to demand that the decision-makers…
Covid-19, Mpox, avian flu… The decline of biodiversity threatens us all
Animals of all kinds locked up in a market, a confined city, an invisible enemy raging, the world soon to its knees… The beginning of the script for a disaster…
Nicolas Mouquet: “The climate is an almost daily subject of discussion, not biodiversity”
Less known than the great masses dedicated to the climate – such as the one that has just ended in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt – the COP15 devoted to the…
environmental DNA, a tool against the obsolescence of marine protected areas
Faced with the decline of life due to human activities, more than a hundred countries are pleading for the adoption of a common objective of 30% of land and seas…
To the rescue of the wild vine, in danger in Île-de-France
An ancestor of the cultivated vine, the wild vine is the only one native to Europe and risks disappearing as man intervenes on the banks of the Seine and dries…