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World Environment Day 2026

World Environment Day 2026 will rally the global community around the urgency of climate action at a time when the world is facing unprecedented environmental challenges.

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Rangelands to take centre stage on Desertification and Drought Day 2026 in Kenya

Nairobi / Bonn, 12 December 2025 – The Government of Kenya and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) today announced that Kenya will host the next global observance of Desert...

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MTAKIMAU Community Forest Association hosted a powerful Conservation and Community Celebration in Takaungu, Kilifi County

MTAKIMAU Community Forest Association hosted a powerful Conservation and Community Celebration in Takaungu, Kilifi County, ahead of its first Annual General Meeting, marking a major milestone in its r...

Target 15: Businesses Assess, Disclose and Reduce Biodiversity-Related Risks and Negative Impacts

By 2030, develop legal, administrative and policy measures including a review of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) regulations and mechanisms, environmental, social and biodiversity safeguards, and others implemented to encourage and enable all...

Target16: Promote sustainable production and consumption practices

Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices, including by strengthening supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and...

Target 18: Identify and reduce harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for biodiversity

Identify by 2025, and progressively eliminate, phase out or reform incentives, including harmful subsidies on biodiversity reducing them by at least 10% annually, starting with the most harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for the...

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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