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Climate change talks end with Doha Climate Gateway

After two weeks of intense and frustrating negotiations governments reached agreement on a compromise text which yet again falls far short of what is needed to keep the world on a pathway of limiting global average temperature rises to less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Concensus reached at the eleventh hour of CBD COP11

At 2AM this morning countries agreed targets to double support for conservation from developed to developing countries to 10 billion US Dollars by 2015

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Filling the information gap: how bird data can help set, meet and track national biodiversity targets

Assisting governments in develop National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) is the purpose of a new guide made available this week at COP11.

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CBD COP11: what BirdLife wants

Here are BirdLife’s main asks of Parties at COP11, which opens on the 8 October in Hyderabad, India.

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BirdLife International’s Position on Selected Agenda Items at COP11

Here you can access BirdLife’s Policy briefing on our main asks of Parties at COP 11.

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Reflections on Rio – reaffirming and renewing rhetoric but has anything really changed?

As the 50,000 participants travel home after ten days of discussing The Future We Want, the outcome document from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), it’s time to reflect on the substance of what was agreed.

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Rio+20 – BirdLife urges governments to ensure that biodiversity and nature are central to decisions taken on sustainable development

The BirdLife Partenership is calling on governments attending Rio+20 to demonstrate global leadership to redirect the global economy towards a sustainable pathway.

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Roadmap to a new global agreement – what did Durban deliver for our climate?

The UN climate change talks in Durban have ended and kept alive negotiations for a fair, ambitious and binding deal. But much still needs to be worked out.

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Not perfect, but something for everyone: Cancún climate talks end with optimism renewed

After two weeks of intense discussion countries have reached a compromise at the climate talks in Cancún. What were the main advances from a BirdLife perspective?

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Final day at Climate Change COP16 – so what’s happening?

With just over 24 hours to go until COP16 in Cancún closes how are the negotiations progressing? Are we getting closer to a fair, ambitious and legally binding global deal on climate change?

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Climate Change negotiations to begin in Cancún

Negotiations begin today in Cancún on how the world should mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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