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YEREVAN, Armenia — As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference prepares to enter its final high-level week, the global biodiversity conservation agenda is reaching a critical juncture. Senior United Nations officials and representatives of the Presidency of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) will hold a press conference on Monday, 26 October, to brief international media on the latest progress in negotiations, major outstanding disagreements, and the key decisions n

Global attention on biodiversity governance has once again turned to Kunming, Yunnan Province. On September 6, the “Kunming Dialogue: Global Review of Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” opened, bringing together senior representatives from China, Canada, Armenia and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to build consensus ahead of COP17, to be held next month in Yerevan, Armenia. At a crit

NEW YORK — Supporting 240 million smallholder farming families to adopt regenerative agriculture could help produce the additional food needed by the world’s growing population through 2050 while restoring degraded land and ecosystems, according to a new book launched during Climate Week NYC. Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation, by development expert Hugh Locke, argues that smallholder farmers — among the least-supported producers in gl

After nearly three weeks of negotiations, Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity acknowledged that the world is not on track to meet its 2030 biodiversity targets. The Nairobi meetings addressed key issues including wildlife conservation, protected areas, marine biodiversity, biodiversity finance and the reform of harmful subsidies, while reviewing the first global progress report on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The report shows that while

Nairobi, 12 August 2026 — Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity concluded nearly three weeks of negotiations in Nairobi, reaching crucial consensus on scientific, technical, and implementation issues. This paves the way for decisive intergovernmental negotiations at the UN Biodiversity Conference, including COP 17, to be held this October in Yerevan, Armenia. The meetings reviewed the first progress report of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

On August 11, AIPS America issued a statement expressing its condolences and solidarity with the Colombian people and media professionals in the affected areas following a powerful earthquake that caused heavy casualties and significant property damage across the country. According to the statement, the 7.4-magnitude earthquake was centered in the area of San José del Palmar, in the department of Chocó, and was felt in nearly 600 municipalities across Colombia. Based on the l