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A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns Business can remain profitable while protecting the environment but invest in nature-positive operations, says a landmark report by IPBES.

A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns
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A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns Business can remain profitable while protecting the environment but invest in nature-positive operations, says a landmark report by IPBES.

A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns

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Explainer: Why Nature Is Everyone’s Business Our food, fuel, and fortunes come from nature, but as these resources are turned into profits, the balance between exploiting and replenishing the planet is ever more precarious. Global businesses imp...

Explainer: Why Nature Is Everyone’s Business

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Support Science in Halting Global Biodiversity Crisis—King Charles King Charles says science is the solution to protecting nature and halting global biodiversity loss, which is threatening humanity’s survival.

Support Science in Halting Global Biodiversity Crisis—King Charles
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How Pacific Wisdom Is Shaping Global Climate Action On the Pacific Islands, communities have interpreted environmental change through traditional knowledge, lived experiences, and practice.

How Pacific Wisdom Is Shaping Global Climate Action
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How Community Radio Is Powering Tanzania’s Climate Resilience “Today we talk about how communities can protect mangroves against floods,” says Evalilian Massawe of TBC FM.

In many villages people may not have smartphones or internet, but they always have a radio. When forecasts are delivered in the local language, through voices they know, communities understand faster and act immediately, says John Mbise, Tanzania Meteorological Agency www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/how-...

Vulnerable Populations Will Suffer With UNAIDS Early Closure HIV activists were stunned by a proposal from UN Secretary-General to shut down the UN’s main agency to fight HIV/AIDS next year.

We have not recovered from the impact of US funding cuts earlier this year, and closing down @unaids.org early will only make things worse, especially for key populations and other criminalized groups, says Aditia Taslim, International Network of People Who Use Drugs www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/vuln...

"It is as absurd as Alcoholics Anonymous holding 28 years of conferences before they get the backbone to mention alcohol in an outcome document." —Kumi Naidoo, President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social

Faith Leaders Endorse Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP30 Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty's Kumi Naidoo says if the goal is renewable life-giving energy, the world has been going the wrong way.

Kumi Naidoo reminded us that the COP document didn't even mention "fossil fuels" for 28 years.
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I'm puzzled why so many drivers complain about cycle-infra when they use it at every opportunity. They park on it, they drive on it, they use it for loading & unloading; they're always on it with their vehicles.

Drivers should be shouting for even more cycle-infra so they can use that too.

The Top Climate Leaders Are Now in The Global South As climate leaders gather in the Amazon, the world’s green transformation is speaking with a southern accent.

Ten years ago, climate policy leadership came from Brussels, Berlin or Paris. Today, it's Beijing & Delhi. China and India are now the engines of the global green economy, with Brazil, Vietnam & Indonesia closely behind, says Erik Solheim www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...
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Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer OSF president Binaifer Nowrojee has lauded Brazil “for significant steps taken to breathe life into the climate commitments.”

The climate crisis offers a real chance to bring a new vision, rooted in fairness, dignity and harmony with nature. The global community can now balance people, profit, and planet in a way that has not been achieved in the past, says @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social #COP30 www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/braz...

Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer OSF president Binaifer Nowrojee has lauded Brazil “for significant steps taken to breathe life into the climate commitments.”

Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer

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Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer OSF president Binaifer Nowrojee has lauded Brazil “for significant steps taken to breathe life into the climate commitments.”

Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer
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Without Truth, There Can Be No Climate Justice—Experts Scientists at COP30 in Belém are appealing for collective action to combat climate change-related misinformation and disinformation.

Without Truth, There Can Be No Climate Justice—Experts
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‘We Want a Place at the Negotiation Table’ — Indigenous Leader Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are calling on climate negotiators to base climate initiatives on recognition of their land rights.

We Want a Place at the Negotiation Table’ — Indigenous Leader
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The Top Climate Leaders Are Now in The Global South As climate leaders gather in the Amazon, the world’s green transformation is speaking with a southern accent.

The Top Climate Leaders Are Now in The Global South
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‘We Want a Place at the Negotiation Table’ — Indigenous Leader Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are calling on climate negotiators to base climate initiatives on recognition of their land rights.

We Want a Place at the Negotiation Table’ — Indigenous Leader
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What's Now Needed is Political Courage, Says UN SG Guterres at COP30 Political courage is the biggest obstacle to limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 1.5°C.

What’s Now Needed is Political Courage, Says UN SG Guterres at COP30
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Weaving Wisdom and Science: Pacific Voices Call for Ocean Protection At the 2nd Pacific Island Ocean Conference chiefs, fishers, youth leaders, and conservationist urged governments, scientists to act.

Weaving Wisdom and Science: Pacific Voices Call for Ocean Protection
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Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation Dr. Luthando Dziba, Executive Secretary of IPBES, believes that we can address the crisis of biodiversity loss through science-based policy.

Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation
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Darjeeling’s Wake-Up Call: Expert at IUCN Congress Calls for Agile Climate Finance As global conservation leaders gather for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, people in Darjeeling are still counting their losses.

Darjeeling’s Wake-Up Call: Expert at IUCN Congress Calls for Agile Climate Finance

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Parliamentarians Seek Solutions to Protect Children from Digital Abuse Children are targeted online faster than lawmakers and law enforcers can act. With international cooperation, the scourge can be addressed.

Parliamentarians Seek Solutions to Protect Children from Digital Abuse
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Global South Can Rebalance Climate Agenda in Belém, Says Gambian Negotiator The Gambia's lead negotiator on mitigation believes that COP30 presents a unique opportunity to rebalance global climate leadership.

Global South Can Rebalance Climate Agenda in Belém, Says Gambian Negotiator
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Vanishing Wisdom of the Sundarbans–How climate change erodes centuries of ecological knowledge Sea levels in the Sundarbans are rising nearly twice the global rate, flooding villages and forcing families out.

Vanishing Wisdom of the Sundarbans–How climate change erodes centuries of ecological knowledge
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Adaptation Finance Shortfalls Leave Developing World Exposed UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Running on Empty shows funding has decreased from USD 28 billion in 2022 to USD 26 billion in 2023.

Adaptation Finance Shortfalls Leave Developing World Exposed
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Defending Democracy in a “Topsy-Turvy” World It is a bleak global moment for civil society. Yet, the mood at Bangkok’s Thammasat University was anything but defeated.

Defending Democracy in a “Topsy-Turvy” World
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Challenging Elites, Defending Democracy: Oxfam’s Amitabh Behar Speaks Out Amitabh Behar, Exec Director of Oxfam Intl., highlights his concerns about rising inequality, growing authoritarianism, and the misuse of AI.

Challenging Elites, Defending Democracy: Oxfam’s Amitabh Behar Speaks Out
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