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Despite some light in the shadows, the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP16), held in Cali, Colombia, ended in stalemate.At the end of the meetings, the countries they did not find the expected agreement on how to make the financial resources available for the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBF), the fund created specifically to halt the loss of biodiversity in various areas of the world, reversing the trend of decline.Two years ago, in Montreal, the states committed themselves to mobilizing a minimum of 200 billion per year by 2030 and to increase financing towards developing countries, but the objectives set still seem like a mirage."A bad sign ahead of the climate conference, COP29, which opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11th", commented the National Animal Protection Agency (ENPA), after what all organizations active in the fight for the environment believe to be a dangerous about-face of States regarding the protection of biodiversity. The COP16 me...

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Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change. Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway supports them all. It is the world’s most famous backup site for seeds that are more precious than data. Tens of thousands of new seeds from around the world arrived at the seed vault on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, in mid-October 2024. This was one of the largest deposits in the vault’s 16-year history. And on Oct. 31, crop scientists Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, who played key roles in creating t...

The Italian Merits platform combines innovation and motivation to promote sustainable behavior in the city.