MONTREAL (Reuters) - This month's U.N. biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn't the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through ...

The 20 Aichi Targets seek to address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming biodiversity across government and society. The 20 Aichi Targets seek to address the underlying causes ...

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are an ambitious set of global goals aimed at protecting and conserving global biodiversity. In a recently published paper, a team of international researchers offer ...

21 UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets will mature in 2020, twelve of which integrate key elements of the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity targets agreed under the UN Convention on Biological ...

Habitat loss is a primary driver of biodiversity loss – so it isn't surprising that optimising the amount of protected land is high on policy-makers' priorities. However, according to research to be ...

Ten years ago, more than 150 countries set a list of goals to achieve by 2020 that aimed to improve the world's biodiversity. On Tuesday, the United Nations announced that out of the 20 targets, known ...

The unique biodiversity of the world’s oldest island, including its 110 lemur species, remains as imperiled as ever. Though the country has tripled the terrestrial area under protection since 2003, ...

The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from ...

In 2010 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, a ten-year framework for action by all countries and stakeholders to safeguard ...

Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, 20th October 2014—A new Plant Conservation Report 2014, launched at the start of the twelfth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ...

Almost everyone is bottom of the class. That’s the best that can be said for countries that signed up to an ambitious plan in 2010 to save the world’s dwindling biodiversity. The Strategic Plan for ...