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With temperatures warming and summer sea ice melting even faster than climate scientists’ forecasts, the Arctic region has become a flashpoint and center of debate for international, as well as national and regional frameworks for environmental governance and development and use of energy and natural resources. The opening of Northeast and Northwest Passages between the Americas, Europe and Asia as a result of warming …

Water is synonymous with biological diversity. The UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) is celebrated each year on May 22nd, it is designed to increase awareness of biodiversity issues. The theme for IBD 2013 was Water and Biodiversity and its goal was to raise awareness about the mutually reinforcing relationship between water security and biodiversity. From its creation by the Second Committee of …

Humans are having an alarming impact on global water supplies, climate and ecosystems, threats which the Global Water Systems Project says requires urgent, holistic and systemic remedies.

To a man, or government rather, all parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity--developed and developing nations alike--agreed to increase funding for biodiversity protection, a sign that government leaders are increasingly aware of the profound threats the extraordinary loss of plant and animal species that's taking place poses to human societies and civilization the world over.

Representatives from 193 UN member nations party to the Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting in Hyderabad, India in an effort to build on historic agreements to protect biodiversity, including the 10 Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed to in Nagoya, Japan in 2010.

May 22 is the UN's "International Day for Biological Diversity," a day that various UN agencies are joining in celebrations and reaffirming their commitments to biodiversity conservation, protection and "wise use" efforts worldwide. Included is the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the only global environmental treaty focused on addressing challenges related to one particular ecosystem.

With severe drought conditions threatening US forests and agriculture for a second-year running, Canada's TD Bank Group today announced TD Forests, a forest conservation program that in addition to unifying the bank's longstanding forest conservation community programs "under one canopy," also includes "a major conservation and education program to protect critical forest habitat across North America."