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A key target of the Kunming Biodiversity Agreement is to conserve and effectively manage at least 30 per cent of land and water areas by 2030, protecting vital breeding, resting and migration habitats for birds.

COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working?

The UN Secretary-General has called for an end to the “war on nature”. On Monday, governments gathering in Yerevan, Armenia, will have to confront a more practical question: are they doing enough to…
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A girl in India studies using a tablet connected to the Internet.

AI, green energy and economic transitions risk leaving vulnerable communities behind, UN warns

Displaced people in Gaza fill flour sacks with sand and place them around their tents to help prevent rainwater from seeping in.

Flour sacks turned flood barriers: Gaza faces another winter without safe shelter

A farmer grows tomatoes on a floating plantation on Inle Lake, Myanmar.

The world is waging a ‘war on nature’ as progress on biodiversity targets lags

Bogota, Colombia's capital city.

Colombia: UN independent experts call for Ecopetrol to provide reparations to victims of armed conflict

Two children in Afghanistan eat nutritional biscuits.

Afghanistan faces record hunger levels amid rampant rights violations

Most Palestinians in Gaza still live in makeshift tents and shelters a year after the 2025 Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement ended a devastating two-year war that left much of the Israeli occupied territory in ruins.

Security Council LIVE: Deaths, demolitions spike in Gaza, West Bank

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