Tag: CBD Briefs

COP16 Brief: Biodiversity and Agriculture

The land-sharing side of the equation in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Issue Agriculture is the single largest human activity in terms of land use and has been deemed the number one driver of accelerated biodiversity losses due to its sheer scale. As recent COPs continue to strongly focus on land-sparing, we must not neglect […]

COP16 Brief: Biodiversity Protection and Oceans

As the largest part of our planet’s surface, oceans are critical under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1) Significance of marine biodiversity:  The biodiversity of “marine and coastal waters”, as the term is used in the CBD context, represents a large share of the planet’s global biodiversity: – the world’s oceans cover over […]