Cop17 at a glance: everything you need to know about the UN’s nature summit
This month’s biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022 This month, nearly every…
According to The Guardian, this month’s biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022 This month, nearly every country on Earth will return to the question of how to stem the rapid destruction of the natural world.
Humans are driving it, but so far we have not found a way to stop it. Now, they are assessing their progress on the…
This environment story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include UN, Yerevan and Armenia.
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- United Kingdom · Europe
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- UN, Yerevan, Armenia, Cop
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- Environment
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- In late 2022, governments reached an ambitious once-in-a-decade deal to better protect nature amid scientific warnings that the planet is going through the largest loss of life since the extinction of the dinosaurs. (The Guardian)
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