India is pitching for a 30X30 vision at the Montreal biodiversity COP Subject : Environment Context- Governments will aim to adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), often referred to as the ‘Paris Agreement for nature’, to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 at the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties […]

    Double financing for natural ecosystems by 2025 to deal with climate, biodiversity crises: UN report Subject: Environment Context- Financing for nature-based solutions (NbS) needs to be doubled to deal with multiple global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. What are Nature-based Solutions […]

    Can Montreal help communities: Here’s a look at access and benefit-sharing around the world Subject: Environment Context- Access and benefit sharing is one of the three objectives of the United Nations Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). But on the ground, there is very little evidence that benefits arising from the use of biodiversity […]

    Equitable benefit sharing of digitised genetic information to span across discussions at COP15 Subject : Environment Context: At CoP15 to CBD- Issues of access and benefit-sharing from digital sequence information on genetic sources (DSI) will be a critical point of negotiations at the UN Biodiversity Conference or COP15 in Montreal, Canada. The current […]

    Conservationists seek ban on three vulture-toxic veterinary drugs Subject :Environment Sixteen years after India banned veterinary use of diclofenac, found to be toxic for vultures, scientists and conservationists are calling for a ban on veterinary painkiller aceclofenac. Recently, it was found that aceclofenac was rapidly converted to diclofenac in the cattles. Diclofenac was […]

    Apply precautionary principle to biotechnologies, scientists & policymakers urge at COP15 Montreal Subject : Environment Context- A white paper detailing the potential dangers of genetically engineered trees and biotechnologies was released at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada. Paper title- Biotechnology […]

    CSE analysis finds Delhi-NCR winter pollution levels down in October-November Subject : Environment Context- The first phase of this year’s winter in the Delhi-national capital region (NCR) has shown early signs of improvement in air quality, according to Delhi-based non-profit the Centre for Science and Environment. More in details- The average levels of […]

    Bill to set up carbon credit trading passed Subject : Environment Context: The Rajya Sabha passed the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The Lok Sabha had passed the amendment in August, 2022. What is  Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022: The Bill seeks to amend the 2001 Act to Facilitate the achievement of COP-26 […]