On April 21st, after several years of international negotiations, governments approved the final operational design of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The German city of Bonn, which also hosts the secretariats of UNFCCC, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), won the bid to host the [...]

The need for economic instruments to value biodiversity is a fundamental element towards its conservation. The negative implications of non-sustainable practices include lower productivity, biodiversity and forest loss, natural disasters and the perpetuation of poverty and underdevelopment. That is why developing countries need to work together in the definition of a common route to protect their [...]

The UN General Assembly approved a resolution to establish the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The body was created to respond to the loss of biodiversity and the world’s economically-important forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems. IPBES will be similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and will assist in [...]

Secretariats of four biodiversity related conventions presented a joint statement to environmental ministers in Nagoya on 28 October 2010 at the The Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Delivered by John Scanlon, Secretary-General of CITES (the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), [...]