A New Model for Climate Partnership Emerges at the Nature Summit Series
Panama City, December 2025 — While negotiators from 190 governments gathered for UNCCD meetings, something fundamentally different unfolded nearby — not a side event, but a blueprint for how global climate partnerships might work in the future. The third edition of the Nature Summit Series, co-hosted by the Government of Panama and Global Resilience Partners […]
Tech’s Next Frontier: A Nature-Positive Transformation the Global Economy Can’t Afford to Miss
The world’s digital backbone is expanding at a pace unmatched in modern history. More than a trillion semiconductors now enter the global market each year, feeding 11,000+ data centres and the accelerating adoption of AI. Yet beneath this surge lies a structural vulnerability: the technology sector’s dependence on land, water, minerals, and stable ecosystems is […]
SDG News Spotlight – Trammell S. Crow: A Founder, A Forcer of Connection, A Builder of Environmental History
For fifteen years, Trammell S. Crow has been quietly — and sometimes loudly — reshaping the global environmental movement through the power of convening. As the Founder and Chairman of EarthX, he has created one of the most unique spaces in the world: a forum where climate scientists and conservative lawmakers share a stage, where […]
Panama Hosts Nature Summit as UNCCD Talks Highlight Push for Integrated Action
Panama Nature Summit 2025 opened this week alongside the UNCCD’s CRIC23 negotiations, bringing together leaders from government, science, finance and civil society as the global community confronts accelerating drought, biodiversity loss and shrinking climate finance. The summit marks the culmination of a year in which Panama became the only country to host high-level convenings linked […]
SIDS Face Rising Drought and Land Loss as UNCCD Warns of Escalating Risks
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are confronting a convergence of climate pressures that threaten their long-term viability, as new UNCCD findings show SIDS drought and land loss accelerating at a scale unseen in previous decades. An information brief released during CRIC23 in Panama reports that 17 percent of SIDS land now endures at least six […]
Triodos Bank Unveils Strategy Linking Climate Action and Nature Protection
Triodos Bank introduced its first integrated Climate and Nature Strategy on Monday, advancing a consolidated framework that ties emissions reduction, biodiversity protection and financial-sector reform into a single roadmap. The announcement comes on the heels of COP30 in Brazil, where governments failed to make progress on aligning climate and nature targets—an outcome that sharpened the […]
Green Impact Exchange (GIX) Appoints Maria Mahl as Chief Product Officer
Green Impact Exchange (“GIX”), the nation’s 18th approved stock exchange and the only U.S. exchange dedicated exclusively to sustainable investments, today announced the appointment of Maria Mahl as Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President. Mahl will lead the execution of GIX’s recently announced product roadmap, positioning the exchange to deliver innovative, institutional-grade financial products […]
Artificial Intelligence Risks Triggering a New Era of Global Inequality, UNDP Warns
Artificial intelligence is accelerating faster than the capacity of many nations to govern, adopt, or benefit from it — a dynamic the United Nations Development Programme now warns could reverse decades of progress in global development. In a new UNDP report, The Next Great Divergence, released 2 December, the agency concludes that unmanaged AI risks […]
SDG News Exclusive: At UNCCD’s CRIC23, Panama Pushes a New Era of Alignment — and Hosts High-Level Nature Summit on the Margins
December, Panama City — One week after the close of UNFCCC’s COP30 in Belém, the global climate community has shifted its attention to Panama City for UNCCD’s 23rd Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC23). As negotiators from more than 190 countries gather to confront accelerating land degradation, drought, and desertification, […]
Honduras Votes in a Razor-Thin Presidential Race as Foreign Pressure and Distrust Test Its Democracy
A vote under the shadow of distrust and intervention When Hondurans queued outside schools and community centres on 30 November, many carried not only their ID cards but years of accumulated scepticism. The country’s 2017 election was marred by irregularities and violent protests; even the cleaner 2021 contest that brought Xiomara Castro to power was […]
