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CITES is a multilateral treaty that covers over 40,000 species.

CITES showdown looms on elephant ivory and rhino horn trade bans

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The global wildlife treaty is charged with regulating trade in 40,920 species, including 6,610 animals and 34,310 plants.

Energy & Environment

Deadlock on production, chemicals as global plastic treaty talks falter

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The latest draft text omitted any legally-binding production limits and a dedicated section on chemicals of concern.

With just one day left for negotiations, delegates to the plastic treaty talks fiercely debated the new draft of a global plastic pollution treaty that would not limit plastic production.

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Draft U.N. plastic treaty lacks teeth on production and chemicals

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Many nations rejected a draft that avoids setting quantitative caps on production, relying on a less stringent approach.

COP 16 President and Colombia's environment minister Susana Muhamad, center, heads biodiversity talks.

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U.N. biodiversity summit ends without financing deal in overtime

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World leaders failed to reach agreement over who should pay what into which fund toward the global biodiversity goals.

A crimson-rumped toucanet in the wild at Risaralda, Colombia

Energy & Environment

Global talks on Earth's eco-crisis hinge on Indigenous communities

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A report found a 73% drop in wildlife populations since 1970 and said nations must tackle the climate and nature crises.

SciTech Diplomacy

As the digital economy advances, its progress on climate goals suffers

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Some 1.9% of electricity globally was consumed by 148 digital companies, including 10 big users in Asia and the U.S.

Energy & Environment

Plastic pollution treaty targets production or waste management

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This is the third round of talks to develop an international legally binding deal that includes plastic waste in the ocean.

A last-minute deal in Montréal aims to protect 30% of the planet to counter an extinction crisis.

Climate & Health

U.N. summit clinches 196-nation deal to halt biodiversity loss

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Negotiators reached a 30% by 2030 or '30 by 30' deal just as the almost two-week U.N. Biodiversity Conference was ending.

The Amazon pink river dolphin lives only in freshwater

Climate & Health

Wildlife populations plunge 69% since 1970

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WWF: Global populations of wildlife species fell on average more than two-thirds between 1970 and 2018 from a "broken relationship with nature."

Sunset on the Arctic horizon as scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter head south in the Chukchi Sea

Climate & Health

Talks fail to clinch global ocean treaty

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Diplomats suspended talks after they could not agree on a proposed treaty to protect marine species and minerals in high seas covering 43% of Earth.

A Mediterranean seabed near the Balearic Islands archipelago

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

WWF says deep sea mining risks too high

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Allowing mining companies to tap deep sea deposits beneath international waters poses too many underwater risks, a global environmental group reported.

King Penguins and Southern giant petrels along the shore of Gold Harbour in the South Georgia islands

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Treaty shows global diversity goals off-track

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Humans are trashing the planet so fast it would take 1.7 "Earths" to regenerate all the biological resources used up from 2011 to 2016, a U.N. treaty reported.