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The second meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-2) on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework was held in Rome, Italy, in February 2020. The objective of the meeting was to advance global discussions…
As COVID-19 has expanded around the globe, many of our worlds have seemed to shrink. We see too little of nature, receive too much bad news, and settle for virtual companionship in place of actual community. A…
In the midst of our global response to COVID-19, the world is in need of an economic transformation, one that promotes both the sustainable wellbeing of individuals as well as the environment in tandem. We have…
Interview with Keith Alverson, Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Environmental Technology Centre in Osaka, Japan. The Centre has produced a Compendium of Technologies for…
Did you know that around 60 per cent of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, as are 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases, in other words they come to us via animals? Zoonoses that emerged or…
Attributable to Executive Director Inger Andersen. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands in solidarity with the billions of people around the world that are suffering the impact of the global…
Asia and the Pacific winner Sonika Manandhar, software engineer, Chief Technology Officer of Aeoli (Green Energy Mobility); Europe winner Marianna Muntianu, environmental activist, Founder of Plant the Forest; and…
In recent decades, zoonotic diseases–those transferred from animals to humans–have gained international attention. Ebola, avian influenza (or bird flu), H1N1 flu virus (or swine flu), Middle East respiratory…
To help prevent further outbreaks of zoonotic viruses like COVID-19, the illegal wildlife trade and the destruction of habitats must stop. We cannot go back to business as usual. And we will need to rebuild by…
“The coronavirus has turned our world upside down. Countries, societies, families and individuals are affected in so many ways. In the midst of this global crisis we believe that this is also a time for innovation…
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