The UNEP-WCMC team at London Climate Action Week reflect on a sweltering event and the urgent priorities before this year’s global nature and climate meetings. A grim salience hung over this London Climate Action Week, Europe’s largest city-wide climate event. More than 45,000 attendees gathered in London to discuss a problem unfolding right before us…
UNEP-WCMC proved that determination, collaboration and scientific rigour can move the needle for nature action, even in turbulent times. The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) released its 2025 Impact Report today. The report highlights crucial developments for nature. In 2025, we proved that with quiet persistence environmental progress can be achieved, even amid changing political winds. Countries, companies and communities increasingly understand and act on the shared reliance that we all…
Acting on nature and climate together accelerates impact. Climate change and nature loss are tightly interconnected issues. Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns can cause the loss of sensitive species, and in some cases whole ecosystems. Even less drastic climate change impacts can disrupt the relationships among species and critical ecosystem processes, therefore damaging ecosystems and reducing the benefits…
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UNEP-WCMC hosted the 2026 Nature Action Dialogues to foster private sector collaboration and action for nature. A whole-of-society approach is needed to meet ambitious global biodiversity targets by 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) sets out 23 major biodiversity targets to achieve by 2030, from conserving and restoring ecosystems to aligning financial flows to…
How we are supporting ecosystem-based adaptation around the world. Climate change is rapidly transforming our planet. While its effects are being felt globally, some areas of the world face these impacts more acutely. Countries are largely underprepared for the serious consequences associated with longer periods of drought, higher levels of flooding, increased frequency and severity of wildfires and more intense heatwaves caused by climate change. While there has been global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate change continues to proceed at a rapid…
Places where nature thrives outside of protected areas have huge potential to help the world achieve the global pledge to conserve 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030 A sacred forest in India. A community-managed fishery in the Philippines. A military training ground in Europe. What do these places have in common? They could…
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Our conservation experts highlight four species that governments recently recognized need greater protections and explain how these decisions can lead to positive outcomes for the world’s long-distance migrants The only global treaty focused exclusively on the conservation of migratory species recently brought governments together in Campo Grande, Brazil. A team of experts represented the UN…
Most conservation data are biased and unjust. Jasmin Upton and Sol Fernandez share how the Protected Planet Initiative at UNEP-WCMC is addressing data justice for protected and conserved areas. Data are never an unbiased representation of the world. Rather, datasets are the result of decisions regarding what can and should be measured and often represent…
An international team of researchers have identified the most urgent unanswered questions about peatland ecosystems, from forest to tundra. This provides a global roadmap which can guide future science and inform policy for one of the planet’s most important and threatened ecosystem types. The study published in Communications Earth & Environment involved input from 467 peatland experts across 54 countries to determine which research questions matter most for understanding…
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