International Day for Biological Diversity

To celebrate the 2025 edition of International Biodiversity Day and the importance of advancing action to tackle biodiversity loss , the key findings of two landmark scientific reports launched by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in December 2024, will be presented to international Geneva, and serve as basis to discuss how the multilateral system can meet the interconnected challenges that result from the accelerated speed and scale of environmental change and rising inequalities identifies in the assessments. International Biodiversity Day Geneva Celebration 2025 . 22 May 2025, Geneva. Contact: Geneva Environment Network and Switzerland .

Yes. It’s very serious, and it needs to be urgently tackled. Starting with the natural and land sea carbon sinks mentioned above. They are being degraded, with examples including the deforestation of the Amazon and the disappearance of salt marshes and mangrove swamps , which remove large amounts of carbon. The way we use the land and sea is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss . Since 1990, around 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses. Agricultural expansion continues to be the main driver of deforestation, forest degradation and forest biodiversity loss . Other major drivers of species decline include overfishing and the introduction of invasive alien species (species that have entered and established themselves in the environment outside their natural habitat, causing the decline or even extinction of native species and negatively affecting ecosystems). These activities, UNEP has shown , are pushing around a million spec...