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15 March 2023

The ‘High Seas Treaty’ – a historic agreement to safeguard marine biodiversity in international waters

After a 17 year long process and weeks of intense negotiations, the United Nations (UN) has agreed on a global legal framework to protect the world's largest ecosystem, the deep seas. The framework addresses both their protection and the distribution of income from resources discovered in the ocean depths.

24 January 2023

Millets and other traditional crops can boost sustainable agrifood systems

The United Nations has dedicated 2023 the International year of millets, to boost efforts in producing millets given their nutritional properties and resilience in adapting to climate change. SLU researchers work on a variety of projects involving millets and other traditional crops.

12 January 2023

New global framework for biodiversity adopted

On December 19 2022, new goals were adopted to save biodiversity in the world through the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, after many years of preparation and intensive negotiations. Now the work towards the new goals needs to start without delay, the secretariat of the convention writes in its press release.

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The ‘High Seas Treaty’ – a historic agreement to safeguard marine biodiversity in international waters

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