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#treaty 新闻
UN summit in Armenia ended with few concrete steps to address drivers of biodiversity loss, as disagreements exposed gap between targets and action.
A new report finds that more than 61.5 million hectares of protected areas analysed across tropical countries overlap with oil and gas blocks, while another 42.7 million hectares overlap with mining concessions.
Countries embrace clean energy but resist cutting fossil fuel production. That fault line is now shaping the UN's first transition roadmap, due at COP31 in November.
Chile, China and Belgium are competing to host the headquarters of a landmark global ocean treaty. But why do they care so much?
#treaty 观点
碳与气候
Nature can’t wait
Although the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are spurring governments to increase spending on defence and focus more on economic growth, it would be a mistake to postpone investments designed to protect nature. In fact, meeting internationally agreed targets could add up to US$450 billion to annual global GDP by 2050.
Southeast Asia’s nuclear push locks countries into long-term strategic alignments, reshaping regional autonomy as major powers compete for influence.
The Trump Administration has broken with the tradition of pursuing its national interests in tandem with an emphasis on alliances and values. Southeast Asian countries will respond accordingly.
As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds.
政策和金融
What COP30 must do
#treaty 视频
More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.
#treaty 播客
EB工作室
As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.
#treaty 新闻发布稿
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Nairobi Convention marks 40 years as COP12 charts future of ocean governance
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Global cooperation delivered environmental gains in 2025: UNEP report
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP launches US$100 million programme to accelerate climate, nature action
United Nations Environment Programme
Resumed fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty opens in Geneva
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
What is the international agreement to protect the high seas and why is it important?
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
GAIA calls for greater accountability, inclusiveness, transparency in Plastics Treaty Process
#treaty 研究
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
How plastic credits are supporting the Global Plastics Treaty
WWF-Singapore
The business case for a UN treaty on plastic pollution
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