Blog, Convention on Biological Diversity
In August 2021, the next step in negotiations for a pivotal UN agreement began. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will lay out a ten-year strategy for the preservation of the living world until 2030 under the goal to “live in harmony with Nature in 2050”. ...
Blog, UN, UN Environment Assembly (UNEA)
Animal welfare is still missing at the UN and particularly in its Agenda for the Environment, even if it benefits from a growing recognition at the UN, particularly in the reports of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Secretary-General. With the...
Blog, Convention on Biological Diversity
Why and how the United Nations should include animal welfare in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework This week, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity process will take the next step in discussions on the most recent draft of its new ten-year strategy to...
Blog, UN Food Systems Summit
Why the UN Food Systems Summit is Already a Success Transformation – denoting a complete change to make things better – is the ambition of the UN Food Systems Summit scheduled for New York in September. The Summit aims to awaken the world to the fact that we all...