Hope for nature
BIODIVERSITY and climate change are closely linked. Healthy ecosystems provide carbon sinks for greenhouse gas emissions and decrease the risk of environmental disasters. Actions to halt and reverse the trend…
Nature positive
THE Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services was established in 2012 to perform regular and timely assessment of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services and its contribution to…
Nature vs nurture
IN 2018, inspired by Ann Patchett’s essay ‘My year of no shopping’ in the New York Times, I chose to abstain from shopping for a year. I too made a…
Nature’s fury
IT has been a while that we have been hearing about climate change, climate displacement, and efforts to mitigate climate change effects at the global and national level. Many saw…
Defying nature
IT seems that the guardians of our morality believe a major threat to Pakistan’s existence comes from its transgender citizens. A considerable section of religious scholars is unable to explain…
Peace with nature
SINCE its creation almost 80 years ago, the UN has served as a vehicle for coordinated collective action for global welfare and has offered mechanisms for socioeconomic development. Multilateralism has…
At COP15, businesses urged to act for nature
Widely blamed for ravaging Earth’s ecosystems, big businesses are nevertheless being turned to as key players in a deal to save nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference. With hundreds of…
COP15 debates whether biodiversity credits can put a value on nature
As the UN COP15 summit in Montreal aims to halt rapid destruction of nature and restore degraded lands, some experts have called for selling “biodiversity credits” to help pay for…
Climate-focused development banks neglect nature ahead of COP15
The world’s development banks could play a major role in protecting nature, but are largely ignoring biodiversity in a climate-led financing push, environmentalists warn, calling for action to fix the…
Restoring nature could depend on how countries help farmers
Famous for its lamb, New Zealand’s agriculture industry was once so well-subsidised that slaughterhouse workers were said to earn more than airline pilots, recalled William Rolleston, a farmer in South…
