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Jan

COMPETING CLIMATE PLANS

From 16 to 20 January, leaders from industry and politics met in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual winter summit of the World Economic Forum. The title of this year's edition was 'Cooperating in a Fragmented World', with a direct reference to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and its geopolitical consequences.

Dec

THE KUNMING-MONTREAL COP15 AGREEMENT: AFRICAN COUNTRIES AGAINST BEIJING

Climate and Advocacy, Conferences of Parties

Late Sunday night, around 4 a.m. Montreal time, the Kunming-Montreal Agreement, or Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) for this decade, was adopted at COP15. COP15 President Huang Runqiu moved to adopt the agreement during the closing plenary along with a package of decisions relating to: a monitoring framework; planning, monitoring and review mechanisms; capacity building and technical cooperation initiatives; resource mobilisation; and digital sequencing information (DSI) of genetic resources.

Dec

COP15 STARTS A NEW WEEK: KEY ISSUES

Climate and Advocacy, Conferences of Parties

COP15 is now in the thick of negotiations. Meanwhile, hundreds of people marched and protested in the streets of Montreal on Saturday, demanding an ambitious agreement to protect biodiversity. Let's take stock of some of the main issues being discussed at COP15.

Dec

COP15: START UP OF NEGOTIATIONS TO DEFEND NATURE AND HALT BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Climate and Advocacy, Conferences of Parties

COP15, the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, begins today in Montreal. During the fifth session of preparatory negotiations, which ended on Monday, December 5, countries' divergent positions remained polarized on most issues and no significant progress was achieved. We cannot afford to exit COP15 without an ambitious and transformative agreement, with adequate economic resources to support it and mechanisms for implementation and monitoring.