The French biodiversity agency (AFB) was established on 1 January 2017. Under the aegis of the French Ministry of the Environment, its role it to monitor the environment and to be the first point of c...

European Union commitments to the marine environment takes timid steps At the end of July the European Commission published a report on the assessment of Member States’ programmes of measures under th...

Act to protect and promote biodiversity Created in 2012 during the COP11 in Hyderabad in India, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has 129 Sta...