Nature policy
 
            
            At the COP15 biodiversity summit in December 2022, nearly every country in the world committed to a new global agreement to “halt and reverse” bi... Read More
 
            
            The agriculture sector holds a lot of power within the European Union, receiving around one-third of the bloc’s total budget. But, amid rising p... Read More
 
            
            The EU’s law to restore nature was given the green light by the European parliament this week. The long-awaited “nature restoration” l... Read More
 
            
            From Berlin and Paris, to Brussels and Bucharest, European farmers have driven their tractors to the streets in protest over recent weeks. A... Read More
 
            
            It has been more than one year since the gavel came down at the last UN biodiversity summit, where almost every country in the world agreed on a plan... Read More
 
            
            Agriculture and food were very much on the menu at COP28 in Dubai, with both voluntary pledges and negotiated texts beginning to reflect their centra... Read More
 
            
            Rainforest countries from across three continents agreed at the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville last week to work together to finance and protect ... Read More
 
            
            In recent years, “biodiversity offsets” and “credits” have been promoted as one of the key ways to finance nature conservation and support gl... Read More
 
            
            Leaders of the eight Amazon basin countries committed this week to act together to prevent the rainforest “from reaching the point of no return” ... Read More
 
            
            Subsidies that harm nature and the environment cost the world an estimated $1.8tn each year – the equivalent of the entire GDP of Canada. Govern... Read More
 
            
            EU policymakers are at the final stage of signing off a new law aiming to prevent the sale of products such as palm oil, coffee and chocolate if they... Read More