Biodiversity and ecosystem services

Results from an EU-commissioned survey reveal how the pandemic is impacting the wildlife tourism sector.

With the ‘European Green Deal’, the EU commits to lead by example, advance climate action and set standards for sustainable growth.

New strategy proposes a roadmap for future cooperation between the European Union and Africa

Robert Steinlechner, Head of Cooperation at the EU Delegation to Peru, shared his reflections on how his delegation can contribute to implementing the Commission’s new priority policy.

Over 100 colleagues from 83 EU Delegations and EU Headquarters in Brussels attended DEVCO Environment and Climate Change Week to discuss the new European Commission policy priorities and how to strengthen environment and climate change dimensions in EU external cooperation, in particular in light of the next programming phase.

DEVCO Environment and Climate Week highlighted how 2020 will be a crucial year for global biodiversity as well as how EU external cooperation can support the Green Deal priority.

Co-management, training and awareness-raising have effected a shift towards sustainable activities in Oyster Lagoon national natural park

A lo largo de casi catorce años se produjo una profunda transformación de Bolivia, en términos materiales y simbólicos, que afectó no sólo a su institucionalidad más firme, incluida la redacción de una nueva Constitución que establecía un Estado Plurinacional, sino también a sus prácticas políticas, a sus narrativas estructurantes, a la articulación y visibilización de sujetos colectivos, o a las memorias y formas societales, que se actualizaban a través de la construcción de un nuevo horizonte comunitario.

Chantal Marijnissen, Head of Unit (Environment, Natural Resources and Water), introduces the 10th edition of Green Development News.

Over 100 staff from EU Delegations, development practitioners and experts gathered in Brussels from 14 to 19 October 2018 at the DEVCO Environment Week 2018, in order to discuss environment policy developments and exchange knowledge about key environmental issues. Organised by the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) of the European Commission, the week focused on exploring ways to strengthen the environmental dimension of EU cooperation.

The UN Biodiversity Conference 2018, held in late November in Egypt, saw countries and non-state actors commit to start work on a post-2020 global biodiversity framework to address the drivers of biodiversity loss while creating a win-win outcome for people and nature.

Populations of the world’s best-known wildlife species have more than halved in less than 50 years according to an alarming report published by WWF at the end of October. This is the first in a series of publications about biodiversity loss that are expected in the course of this year.

The UN's biodiversity conference - the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity - takes place in Egypt in November.

Warning on climate change; renewable energy potential for desert vegetation; dam threat to orang-utans; elephant killings in Botswana

A new programme for the conservation, sustainable management and good governance of biodiversity in four vulnerable ecosystems of central South America was launched in Bolivia in June.

An insight into the ECOFAUNE project and its efforts to build a sustainable, secure future for the region’s communities and wildlife.

A GCCA+/UNDP joint programme is supporting cutting-edge digital technology combined with traditional tree-planting and reforestation to help Benin mitigate the impacts of climate change.

The Regional Reports volume of 'Larger than Tigers: a strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia', is now available.

There are 36 biodiversity hotspots globally: biologically rich but threatened terrestrial ecosystems, which are exceptional due to their high number of unique species and because each has lost at least 70 % of its original vegetation. The hotspots also provide services vital to human wellbeing (clean air and water, flood and climate control and soil regeneration).

DG DEVCO C2 and C6 are organising a two-day training session on environment and climate change entitled "Towards Sustainable Development: Greening EU Development Cooperation" on 7-8 June in Brussels.