Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

Decision on capacity building to handle GMOs tops biosafety meet agenda

Countries have reported they lack appropriate legal, institutional and technical capacity for decision making on genetically modified organisms

Amazonian biodiversity: Indigenous convoy to bring focus to threats during Montreal summit

Non-profit Amazon Watch, among others, to participate in COP15 CBD

World hasn’t met a single Aichi biodiversity target: Leaked UN Report

While there has been progress, it is insufficient, according to the document

US launches global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade

Biodiversity framework: Ambitions running amok at negotiations ahead of CoP15

Negotiators have a tough task to clean up the text of global biodiversity framework in 6 days and ready it for December  

Rohana’s healer of maladies

Meet Jaganath Singh who has been treating farm animals with herbs and plants for the past 80 years

Are we ready to hand over on our life-forms?

There are certain plants, vegetables and fruits indigenous to India having medicinal properties. The knowledge of these properties rests with …

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material

7th GEF Assembly: Global Biodiversity Framework Fund ratified

First projects under the new Fund likely to roll out ahead of CBD’s CoP16 

World Intellectual Property Organization working towards treaty on traditional knowledge, folklore

Draft text though fails to address the problem of biopiracy of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge using patents, says experts

COP15 Montreal: ‘Coalition for Nature’ formed by Small Island Developing States

The goal of the coalition is to advocate for agreed common SIDS priorities and needs such as greater means of implementing biodiversity objectives

Road to COP15 Montreal: Kenya’s local communities have had limited benefits from their natural resources; here is why

Many communities are vulnerable to manipulation, rendering the whole principle of fair and equitable sharing of benefits impractical

IPBES9 assessment reports: Conservation vs use vs sustainable use?

Global body grapples with the question of how biodiversity can be used sustainably and ensuring social justice  

Win one, lose many

India needs to have a hard look at the sources of all its varied traditional knowledge and how to protect them

'Building and retaining capacity is the toughest challenge'

Balakrishna Pisupati is in the hot seat as chairperson of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), where he has to deal with regulatory and …

Leaked UN report on biodiversity calls for 8 changes to save planet

These include positive actions for forests, agriculture, food systems, climate, health, fisheries, oceans and cities  

WTO: a mock battle

‘Marine Protected Areas must be evaluated for effectiveness’

At present, focus is only on coverage; quality and effectiveness not assessed, point out experts

To meet global target, countries want formal control over indigenous communities’ lands

As the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting takes stock of Aichi Targets, the suggestion of bringing indigenous communities’ areas …

Tribals nail government lie on protecting indigenous people at biodiversity meet

'Will the Indian government abandon mining projects to protect us?' ask residents of Singrauli who face displacement because of Mahan coal project

A year of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: How far have we come?

Decisions deferred to 2024; slow progress might make it difficult to meet targets by 2030

SBSTTA-25: Delegates move forward on recommendations to implement Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Synergy between climate change & biodiversity recognised; work on indicators to continue till next meeting  

Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework presents false solutions, says youth group

‘No clear component in framework to regulate actors causing destruction of biodiversity, ecosystems’

Faces of protection: 30x30 goal impossible without indigenous participation

A report at COP15 Montreal on protected areas lacks qualitative aspects of indigenous land