• We have increased protected area coverage from 3% terrestrially in the early 1980s to nearly 13% now, and the Biodiversity Convention has set a terrestrial target of 17% by 2020.

    FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part One

  • There have been a couple of international agreements (at the UN biodiversity convention last year, for example, when governments agreed there should be no geo-engineering schemes that damage nature).

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • Fiji wants 30% of its waters protected and European nations including the UK are slowly imposing their own marine protected zones, prompted by the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) which was initiated at Rio.

    BBC: Shortages: Fish on the slide

  • The conclusions of the forthcoming report of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Global Biodiversity Outlook 3) will be presented.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • 's Convention on Biological Diversity (the "Biodiversity Treaty").

    FORBES: Commentary

  • The launch of GBO-3 comes as governments begin two weeks of talks in Nairobi aimed at formulating new measures to tackle global biodiversity loss that can be adopted at October's Convention on Biological Diversity summit in Japan.

    BBC: Nature loss 'to damage economies'

  • Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.

    UNESCO: Global Deal to Protect Nature

  • For the US, playing a leading role in IPBES as advocated in this report may be a critical step towards the long overdue US ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity which is the key platform for international biodiversity policy.

    FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy

  • The Nagoya Biodiversity Summit, or 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), marks the 20th anniversary of the CBD and is one of the highlights of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

    UNESCO: Global Deal to Protect Nature

  • This 2020 Challenge was Scotland's response to the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 and the 'Aichi Targets' set by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

    BBC: MSP Rob Gibson leads a debate on biodiversity.

  • In this regard, the agreed objectives of the Convention of Biological Diversity are a particularly useful reference for what business should be doing about biodiversity.

    FORBES: Biodiversity: What Are We Supposed To Do About It?

  • This is because the current legal and policy regimes under relevant international legal instruments, and especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, do not specifically deal with the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of the biodiversity of the deep seabed.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

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