In this issue:
Mirna Inés Fernández (Third World Network) & Yannick Tatin (M.Sc. in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems) - Devastating forest fires are occurring every year with more intensity and causing major biodiversity loss. They are intensified by climate change, with major corporate interests like the agrobusiness and palm oil sectors behind the land use changes that lead to intensified fires in wildfire-prone ecosystems. Between 2025 and 2026, most of the regions experienced increasing fires.
Irina Kurilova (Northern Women) - COP17 is in full motion. Governments, international organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society are discussing the future of global biodiversity policy. But two women who have worked to make the participation of Indigenous Peoples from Russia in international environmental processes possible are missing.
Joann Sy (Pollinis) - As Parties take up synthetic biology at COP17, a quiet shift is under way: synthetic biology is being reframed as a conservation tool. Yet the reframing itself is not on the table. The underlying question is rarely asked: is this the kind of conservation we want?
Audrey Irvine-Broque & Jessica Dempsey - We need to address the elephant in the room: biodiversity targets necessitate governments to halt destruction, while the rules and norms of global economic governance often pressure governments to
allow biodiversity destruction.
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