Image credit: David Troeger via Unsplash The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is a global plan to conserve, protect, and restore biodiversity and ecosystems over the next decade. The first draft was released back in July 2021, but this framework has been...
Photo credit: Unseen Histories via Unsplash This week, in the United States, we celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He is well known for his inspiring “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington in 1963 and played a large role in quite...
Photo credit: Lisa H via Unsplash As we take stock of the social, environmental, and economic crises in the world today, it is clear that our current way of life and the systems we have built to sustain it are inequitable, unsustainable, and economically precarious....
Photo credit: Ibrahim Rifath via Unsplash. With the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, we’re seeing countries across the world close their borders once again. After the initial closure of borders in 2020, we saw a collapse in international travel and...
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro via Unsplash When we think of wildlife, corals are typically not the first thing we think of. Many believe corals are just plants, but actually, they are living animals. Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems....
Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) protect some of the most important ecosystems, conserve a vast majority of the world’s biodiversity and carbon storage, yet they have consistently been deprived of aid money for climate mitigation. IPLCs receive less...
