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All about COP29

Cop29 is drawing to a close in Baku, Azerbaijan; EnviroStrat’s Natasha Jacobs summarises the key takeaways from the global climate change summit. But first, what is Cop29? Cop stands for Conference of Parties; the summit his held annually, with this year’s conference being the 29th. Over the last two weeks, ministers, envoys, negotiators and activists have flocked to Baku to try to make progress on agreeing global commitments to fight climate change. This year finance is the hot topic, and the primary aim of the conference has been to agree a new target for how, and how much, money should…
Sophie Bradly
November 26, 2024
All About COP16 In The NewsInternat'lOur Thinking

All About COP16

Written by EnviroStrat's Natasha Jacobs.   Q – What is COP? COP stands for Conference of the Parties. It’s a global summit where nature takes centre stage. COP16, the 16th iteration, has been taking place over the last two weeks, in Cali, Colombia.  Not to be confused with the Climate Change COP taking place in Azerbaijan next month, COP16 is the Biodiversity COP, and aims to drive international co-operation to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. Q – What are we learning this year? Highly anticipated this year, is country progress on COP15’s Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, a landmark global agreement, established in 2022, aimed at halting…
Sophie Bradly
November 4, 2024
UN Rio +20 Blue Economy Review Coastal, Marine & Blue EconomyInternat'lOur WorkStrategy, Research & Analysis

UN Rio +20 Blue Economy Review

EnviroStrat was appointed by the Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission of UNESCO as lead author of a cross-UN paper Blueprint for Ocean Sustainability – the core UN Oceans policy paper leading to the 2012 Rio+20 Global Environmental Summit. This paper provided the UN Oceans agencies with a succinct summary of the current issues and problems in the world’s oceans and identified ten proposals for future action that were intended to galvanise both UN agencies and member states at the recent Rio+20 Conference.   Photo from the Earth as Art series, thanks to the USGS EROS Center.
EnviroStrat
February 12, 2020
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