
Nature and Biodiversity
Secure and Equitable, Nature Positive, Net Zero World
Non-State Actors' Call for Governments to Strengthen
the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The International Environment Forum has endorsed the following joint call to action prepared by WWF International as governments negotiate a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to be approved at the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 opening on 11 October and concluding in May 2022
World Conservation Congresses in September
Among the major environmental events postponed from last year and being held in the coming months, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will be holding its World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, on 3-11 September, to drive action on nature-based recovery, climate change and biodiversity post-2020.
Ethical Commitment to Protect Nature and its Biodiversity
A Statement from the International Environment Forum, 1 March 2021
Introductory video for the statement: https://vimeo.com/530296612
Year
2020
Bahá'à Faith and Biodiversity
United Nations Environment Programme
Faith and Biodiversity
https://www.unenvironment.org/faith-and-biodiversity
Contributed by Bahá'à International Community
2020 Faith Call to Action for UN Biodiversity Summit
State of the World's Forests 2020
Urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world’s forests amid alarming rates of deforestation and degradation, according to the latest edition of The State of the World’s Forests released on the International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May). The 188-page report, which summarizes a decade of studies on biodiversity, examines the contributions of forests and of the populations that use and manage them.
Applying the hard lessons of coronavirus to the biodiversity crisis
Jamison Ervin
Manager, Global Programme on Nature for Development, UNDP
27 March 2020
IEF and Biodiversity
Launch of a new thematic issue
Things you can do to protect biodiversity
The following are suggestions for simple actions that almost anyone can do to protect biodiversity. If you have other suggestions, please send them to info@iefworld.org.
AT HOME
• Avoid using pesticides and other chemicals dangerous to living things