South Africa

UNDP Hosts First TNFD Training in South Africa Johannesburg, 2025 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Banking Association of South Africa, has hosted a training session for financial institutions on the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Th...Read more

South Africa is updating its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and its Target 15, which calls for greater transparency on how companies and financial institutions impact nature. The Department of Forestry, Fisher...Read more

Pretoria, South Africa — Two groundbreaking tools designed to reshape biodiversity management in South Africa were officially launched this week at the National Biodiversity Offset Conference in Gauteng. The event, held from 22–23 May to mark the 2025 International Day for Biological Diversity, brou...Read more

Today, 40% of the world’s land is degraded, affecting billions of people and with dire consequences for our climate and biodiversity. Land degradation is the process that robs fertile land of its ability to support life . It’s a major cause of biodiversity loss and climate change. The science is inc...Read more