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How the bushfire risk is increasing as the climate changes

Posted by News Source | Aug 9, 2019 | Australia, News |

By Georgie Burgess Australian summers are set to get drier and hotter as the Earth’s...

July may set global record as hottest in recorded history, UN says

Posted by News Source | Aug 9, 2019 | News |

The planet endured what may have been the hottest July in history, the World Meteorological...

Is your vegan burger really as kind to the environment as you think?

Posted by News Source | Aug 9, 2019 | News |

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report, Climate Change and Land,...

ISA Talks Consider Development of Regulations on Deep-seabed Mining

Posted by News Source | Aug 8, 2019 | Summits |

By IISD’s SDG Knowledge Hub 26 July 2019: The second part of the 25th annual session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which included meetings of the Authority’s Council and Assembly, focused on the...

Event: Third Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation of the CBD

Posted by News Source | Aug 8, 2019 | EVENTS |

By IISD’s SDG Knowledge Hub In Decision XII/12, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) to replace the Ad Hoc Open-ended...