Negotiators released new U.N. proposals to share revenues from drugs, cosmetics, and agricultural biotechnology.
A United Nations biodiversity summit this fall seeks to give Indigenous and local communities a bigger slice of the "multitrillion-dollar revenues and other benefits“ from the DNA sequences of plants, animals and microbes.
The move comes as Germany's Astrid Schomaker, a high-ranking European Commission environmental official, became executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on Monday.
Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
Nations for plastic production limits and oil-rich producers deadlocked in the hours before the talks were set to expire.
Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to conclude the world's first legally binding plastic waste treaty.
Experts agreed science and diplomacy need to evolve to build trust, solve problems, and promote national interests.
The spike in the world’s deadliest infectious disease comes as officials warn global aid cuts could lead to a resurgence.
More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
From migrants to refugees, millions of lives and the organizations that help them are at risk from U.S. aid cuts.
