Day: October 23, 2026

The world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of all coral reef systems as "critically endangered". Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs face an extremely high risk of collapse in the next 50 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned in a new global assessment. In a report released on Thursday, the world authority on...

Malaysia, alongside other strategically important financial jurisdictions, lacks comprehensive restrictions on financing deforestation and ecosystem conversion ahead of the UN biodiversity summit. KUALA LUMPUR October 22, 2026 — Four years after governments agreed to align public and private financial flows with global biodiversity goals, a new report, Regulating Finance for Biodiversity: An...