Noticias Nature Action

Updates on nature, land and biodiversity

Nature is humanity’s lifeline. Human health, food, economies and well-being depend on nature. Yet nature is in crisis. One million of the world’s estimated 8 million species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction. Meanwhile, ecosystem degradation is affecting the well-being of 40 per cent of the global population.

The spotlight on nature and biodiversity highlights updates from around the UN System, from partners and others, helping to call attention to the need for a just, prosperous and sustainable future for all.

09 Jun 2025 14:40

One Ocean Finance: Unlocking investment for a healthy ocean

Sea creatures
Credit: Irene Middleton

 

This week at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco, global partners kicked off the co-design process for One Ocean Finance – a new initiative to rethink how we fund ocean action.

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and others, the effort aims to channel billions in capital from ocean-linked industries into solutions that restore ocean health, support coastal communities, and drive sustainable growth.

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen called the initiative “a new financial future for the ocean,” adding:

“Our goal is to address decades of underinvestment, bring fragmented efforts together, and design a system that truly serves coastal communities and marine ecosystems.”

Now being carried forward to the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, One Ocean Finance invites all sectors to get involved and help shape a more inclusive, effective ocean finance system. 

Read the full press release.

09 Jun 2025 14:22

UNEP Executive Director on solutions to environmental challenges

Underwater seascapes
Credit: Vanessa Mignon

 

In a video interview with France 24, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen called for an end to the business as usual scenario in solving environmental challenges, saying, 

“Wherever I go – whether it’s on climate related settings or whether it’s biodiversity or whether it’s here as oceans or whether we are talking pollution – young people understand that continuing as we are, the business as usual scenario, is simply not a scenario that they can sustain in their future.”

09 Jun 2025 09:07

UN Ocean Summit kicks off today in Nice, France

Underwater Seascapes
Credit: Taryn Schulz Cormorant love

 

Today marks the official opening of the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica. Running from 9 – 13 June, the conference is a pivotal moment for countries and partners around the world to step up efforts to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.

Stay tuned as we dive into a week of solutions and commitment for our shared ocean, and visit the UNEP at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference to learn more about UNEP’s engagement throughout the week.

08 Jun 2025 08:54

Happy World Oceans Day!

Screenshot of Jason Mamoa Instagram post on World Oceans Day.

The ocean supports humanity in countless ways, and when the ocean suffers, so do we. Instead of protecting it, we’ve polluted its depths and pushed it to the brink.

This World Oceans Day, Jason Momoa, UNEP Advocate for Life Below Water, shares a powerful message reminding us of our shared responsibility to protect and restore our ocean.

22 May 2025 19:06

Placing nature at the heart of development

 

On the International Day for Biological Diversity, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen urges everyone, everywhere, to commit to placing nature at the very heart of development.

22 May 2025 16:49

The role of environmental multilateralism in challenging times

Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen sat down with Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Astrid Schomaker,  to discuss how - even in challenging times - environmental multilateralism is continuing to deliver.

20 May 2025 18:14

A sweet solution for adapting to climate change

A beekeeper
A member of the new beekeeping cooperative in Ngororero inspects their new hives. Credit: UNEP/Miranda Tasker

 

A UNEP-backed initiative in Rwanda is helping restore forests and wetlands while equipping farmers with livelihoods that are less at the mercy of climate change, like beekeeping. 

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12 May 2025 11:08

Acting for biodiversity can take a diversity of forms

A colony of penguins on an island
Credit: Unsplash/Mathew Stephenson

 

“Harmony with nature and sustainable development” is the theme of the 2025 edition of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). At its crux lies a seminal idea: a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach is crucial for the implementation of the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework  (KMGBF) and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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08 May 2025 12:17

Countdown to the International Day for Biological Diversity 2025

A blue whale on the ocean
Credit: Unsplash/Todd Cravens

 

The theme of the International Day for Biodiversity 2025 is "Harmony with nature and sustainable development." This year's theme highlights the linkages between the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) as two universal agendas that must be pursued in tandem in the spirit of the recently adopted Pact for the Future.

Here are steps everyone can take to join the global celebration of biodiversity:  

22 Apr 2025 15:03

Explore papers on reimagining the human-environment relationship this Earth Day

People on a crop field
Credit: UNEP

 

This International Mother Earth Day, explore a collection of papers on alternative voices on reimagining the human-environment relationship curated by UNEP and the UN University Centre for Policy Research in the lead-up to Stockholm+50 in 2022.

The curated collection of ideas captures, interrogates, and elevates alternative paradigms of the human-nature relationship—existing and new and from various disciplines and societies—creating a space to recast our relationship with the environment and inform future policymaking.