May 30, 2019
Stories tagged "United Nations"
May 12, 2019
World Agrees To Pact to Control Solid Waste, U.S. Not A Party
The 186 nations who are a party to the United Nation’s Basel Convention on solid waste concluded a historic agreement late Friday that will require countries to monitor and control the movement of plastic waste between national borders in order to deal with the...May 8, 2019
After the UN Extinction Report — Now What?
The United Nations report on the extinction crisis that came out on Monday made a relatively big splash. ICYMI, a group of scientists called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), determined that biodiversity is...May 5, 2019
New Report Hopes to Spark “Paris Moment” for Biodiversity
A major United Nations scientific report on biodiversity will be released later today, after a week of negotiations on the final text written by 400 leading scientists from 130 nations assessing the state of Nature — and its impact on humanity — across the...March 4, 2019
One Wild Thing: UN Youth Art Contest Winner
Valerie Dou, 17, of the United States is the winner of the United Nation’s 2019 International Youth Art Contest. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) sponsored the contest in collaboration with the United Nations Convention on International Trade in...January 23, 2019