On the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Natura 2000 network, the winners of the 2022 edition of the Natura 2000 Awards were announced.
The six winners will be announced at the Ceremony, inlcuding the winner of the Citizen's Award.
The project ‘Aligning Accounting Approaches for Nature’ (Align) will host its third webinar on 18 May 2022 from 3-5 pm CET / 2-4 pm BST. Join the webinar to discover best practices related to natural capital management accounting in the electricity and water utility sector. Speakers include Emilio Tejedor, Head of Environment at Ibedrola (SP) and Miranda Cooper, Conservation & Land Manager at Northumbrian Water (UK).
Everyone can now report their planted trees through a newly launched web app, to contribute to the 3 Billion Trees Pledge by 2030.
Join us at the Green Deal Village to test the Pollinator Park Virtual Reality experience, recently nominated in the Webby Awards.
Join the webinar to learn about the biodiversity data landscape, latest evolutions and challenges in biodiversity data collection. The webinar will also highlight how the Task Force for Nature related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is dealing with nature-related data, and announce a recent Position Paper by We Value Nature on improving natural capital data flows between governments and the private sector.
The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and Finance@Biodiversity Community launched the Finance for Biodiversity – Guide on engagement with companies in a webinar co-organised with the UNEP FI and the PRI on 12 April 2022.
In 2021, the Finance@Biodiversity Community and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation published the Guide on biodiversity measurement approaches. On 7 April 2022, one year after the guide was launched, the F@B Community discussed what should be included in the first full update of this guide.
The national & regional B@B platforms and networks reconvened on 26 April 2022 for their monthly meeting. The aim of the monthly meetings is to provide an update on the developments in the field of business and biodiversity with the specific focus on policy developments at European level. Discover what was discussed!
This briefing addressees the carbon storage and sequestration potential of European habitats and the measures available to increase carbon storage.
The EU Organic Awards comprises 7 categories and 8 awards, acknowledging different actors along the organic value chain. Apply by 8 June.
A year after its launch, the Align project is finalising Draft V01 of the Recommendations for a standard on biodiversity measurement and valuation. The draft will soon be released and open for public consultation in June. So stay tuned for your opportunity to become involved in the development of this iterative document!
Join the second We Value Nature dialogue on making valuing nature the new normal for business. Speakers from business, finance and the European Commission will discuss what more needs to be done to transition to nature-positive in business.
A year after its launch, the Align project has developed a Draft Zero of the Recommendations for a standard on biodiversity measurement and valuation. Recommendations will be released and open for public consultation in June, after the final revisions in May. Stay tuned!
The resumed sessions of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 24), the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 3) and the third meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (WG2020-3), originally scheduled for 12-28 January 2022 are now planned to take place on 13-29 March 2022, at the International Conference Center Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP19) to take place in November 2022 in Panama.
UNEP@50 is a time to reflect on the past and envision the future. It provides an opportunity to reinvigorate international cooperation and spur collective action to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.
The overall theme for UNEA-5 is “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”. This highlights the pivotal role nature plays in our lives and in social, economic and environmental sustainable development.
Forty applications have been received for the 2022 edition, featuring activities in 15 countries across five categories. These applications showcase the breadth and diversity of Natura 2000
The exhibition consists of 25 original photographs showing species of wild, migratory or resident animals living within Mexican borders.
