An intense North-South debate over genetically engineered trees has sidetracked delegates at a U.N. conference on biodiversity here: African nations want a global moratorium, while a few rich countries led by Canada say it should be up to individual countries to regulate.

Stalled at the eleventh hour by three isolated countries that are attempting to block consensus, most of the world’s environment ministries and others are on the brink of reaching agreement on a worldwide moratorium on commercial ocean fertilization – controversial proposals to dump nutrients in the ocean to artificially alter the climate.

The global biodiversity crisis that threatens life on Earth is driven by economic policies that fail to value nature, a new report commissioned by the European Union (EU) and the German government, finds.

A key report from the European Parliament has called for the EU's 10% biofuel target to be scrapped, amidst growing evidence over the impact on wildlife, people and the world's food supplies. Campaigners from NGOs welcomed the proposals and urged the industry and environment committees to drop the target.

After more than one week of CBD negotiations with little progress in crucial issues like forests, agrofuels, ABS, financing or protected areas, a lot of expectations are now drawn on the "High Level Segment" starting today.

A documentary on “The future of food” explores signs of the serious transformations of the agriculture world since the corporations turned food production into agribusiness.

Four years of negotiations on an international liability and redress regime for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under the Convention on Biological Diversity have failed to conclude as planned.

A great number of civil society organizations are taking advantage of the MOP and COP meetings in order to raise serious concerns about the impacts of agrofuels, transgenic trees and the technology Terminator (important issues regarding biosafety and the conservation of biodiversity) through two open letters addressed to government delegates attending those meetings.

Interview with Belmond Tchoumba, co-coordinator of Friends of the Earth’s Cameroon Forests and Biodiversity Program at the United Nations biodiversity conference in Bonn.

A research that includes an independent surveillance in 22 countries on the implementation of the Work Program of Forestry Biological Diversity, agreed by the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, was submitted by the Global Forest Coalition in Bonn, Germany.