Two important agreements for the protection of the oceans and their living resources have now come into force: the High Seas Treaty, and the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement.
High Seas Treaty
The ocean makes up nearly 70% of the planet’s surface, but beyond national exclusive economic zones, much of the ocean is the High Seas, thus no one's responsibility.
COP16: Key outcomes from the UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia
One side event the first week of COP16 was on 'Strengthening Multilevel Accountability' organised in the Dutch pavilion by Wageningen University & Research. It approached the complex topic of accountability to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Kunming-Montreal Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework targets from very different disciplinary perspectives.
Turning the Tide: Reducing Biodiversity Loss and Restoring Decimated Ecosystems
New essay by Anil Singh The Bahá'í World 14 October 2024
The Bahá'í World has announced the publication of a new essay, “Turning the Tide: Reducing Biodiversity Loss and Restoring Decimated Ecosystems,” by author Anil Singh.
The IEF has endorsed the Nature Positive Initiative to protect biodiversity.
Nature Positive is a global societal goal defined as ‘Halt and Reverse Nature Loss by 2030 on a 2020 baseline, and achieve full recovery by 2050’. To put this more simply, it means ensuring more nature in the world in 2030 than in 2020 and continued recovery after that.
Human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life
based on an article by Sean Cummings, 18 September 2023
The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
