biodiversity

Startup, NatureMetrics: Scalable Biodiversity Metrics Powered by e-DNA

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano NatureMetrics is accelerating the use of molecular methods for species and ecosystem monitoring, t...

Nature-based Solutions, the importance of definitions

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After centuries of mindless exploitation of natural resources, humankind has recently gained aware...

Bíos

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese How could we trump almost 4 billion years of research and development? Since the appearance of the ...

COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - COP16 in Colombia ended a day later than scheduled, amid a blend of disillusionment an...

COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - In a significant development at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Conv...

Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali, Colombia - Reporting and knowledge form the foundations of implementing the Global Biod...

COP16, the gordian knot of biodiversity finance

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano From Cali, Colombia - On the 30th of October a group of 20 ministers from the global south vo...

Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - On Saturday morning, 27 October, puffy rain clouds loomed over the Pacific Valley Exhi...

3Bee: Monitoring biodiversity, climate and nature to account for impacts and dependencies

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The first step in protecting the planet's biodiversity is to have accurate, homogeneous data that ...

Jeff Opperman (WWF): "Protecting nature is not enough; we must restore it"

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Wildlife populations have decl...

COP16 Colombia 2024 Biodiversity: how to participate (also online) and which events to follow

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Inírida flower, is called the “eternal flower” because of its extraordinary...

At COP16 Colombia 2024, biodiversity negotiations are ready to start

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The sixteenth round of negotiations on biodiversity kicks off in Cali, on Monday 21 October , foll...

COP16 Biodiversity, progress on DSI, the mechanism for sharing genetic resources

How can territories be rewarded for the commercial exploitation of plant and animal biodiversity in the fields of medicine, chemistry, food or materials, using these economic resources to protect bi...

Startup, protecting forests and indigenous communities in the Andes with Acción Andina

The 7,000-kilometer-long Andes Mountains, which make up only 1% of the earth's surface, are home to a rich and diverse ecosystem. There are 15% of all plant and wildlife species, including more than...

Wang Yao: This is How China Finances Biodiversity

China is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Its 960 million hectares of land include mountain ranges (such as the Himalayas) and plateaus, vast deserts and immense grasslands, boreal...

Air quality networks can also monitor biodiversity around the world

Sixth mass extinction and climate crisis, unfortunately, go hand in hand, but they are not the same thing. When we speak of mass extinction, we are referring to the massive loss of biodiversity on a...

Panamericana and biodiversity, empathy can save the world

It has been almost 2 years since the 15th of July 2022 when I took the plane that allowed me to verify with my own eyes, how much and in which form human activities are changing, sometimes irreparab...

Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024

2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...

Ten words for 2024

Another year has come to an end. There are those who reflect on these past twelve months while others prefer to look to the year ahead. We of Renewable Matter, who by nature are always looking ...

Restoration Law: there is an agreement, but it is still far from what science requires

Late in the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2023, negotiators from the Parliament, Commission and Council reached a tentative political agreement on the European law on nature restoration. After a ...