article thumbnail

High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters

Business Green

Observers had warned countries would fail to meet the 30x30 target agreed in Montreal last December without new legal powers to create a network of marine protected areas on the high seas given roughly two thirds of the ocean lies outside national jurisdictions.

article thumbnail

Connections, coffee, and campaigns: What businesses get from a COP

Business Green

Corporate attendance has been typically limited to a handful of extractive industry and pharmaceutical firms, who attend in a largely defensive capacity. Croucher, who has attended biodiversity COPs since the 2000s, said the Montreal meeting set a new precedent for business presence, involvement, and interest. Green in-roads.

COP 40
article thumbnail

SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.