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Biodiversity summit to focus on profit sharing from DNA sequences
Negotiators released new U.N. proposals to share revenues from drugs, cosmetics, and agricultural biotechnology.
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Negotiators released new U.N. proposals to share revenues from drugs, cosmetics, and agricultural biotechnology.
The treaty is the first on genetic resources and traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and local communities.
Warming threatens to upend ecosystems from Mongolia and the Amazon to crucial ocean currents in the North Atlantic.
Though it cannot enforce its orders, the court issues advisory opinions that carry legal weight and moral authority.
'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of warming as Dubai summit opens with new fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
Government plans would blow past limits needed to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The panel said it found evidence of human rights abuses on both sides, but those by Russia far outweigh those by Ukraine.
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization agreed on some policies but not a unified goal to end deforestation.
Diplomats failed to meet an end-of-year deadline for a deal on halting government subsidies that contribute to overfishing, WTO officials said.
At least 5,554 people were killed or wounded last year because they stepped on a land mine or other unexploded devices from war, a new report found.
Little more than 60% of all refugee children are able to go to primary schools, versus 90% among all children globally.
IBM, which helped develop the standards, said they offer policy guidance for governments and stakeholders worldwide.
Disasters and conflicts drove nations atop a list of places adding to the 28 million people newly displaced at home.
Venezuelans who cannot flee are in the grips of a humanitarian crisis from lack of food and basic services.
With demands growing for the U.N. chief to appoint an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a review by Arete News found just eight previous instances of such an order.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands said the losses between 1970 and 2015 pose a serious threat to the "world's most valuable ecosystem" with a huge amount of biodiversity.