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CSE’s Weekly Bulletin

February 24, 2026

The latest on our perspectives, analysis, publications and events

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  Road to Yerevan: Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity flag gaps ahead of next round  
     
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The sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 6) of the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded without decisions on several crucial issues, marking a critical staging post on the road to the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia.

Opening the meeting, SBI 6 Chair Clarissa Souza Della Nina of Brazil urged delegates to “forge common ground for the common good” and to find “solutions, not brackets”. However, this is not what happened. The four-day meeting, held at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, ended at 11:55 pm on February 19, 2026 without agreement on key matters. Numerous recommendations were forwarded to COP17 with bracketed text, signalling unresolved differences. These will now be taken up at the next SBI meeting scheduled for August... Continue Reading
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Here's what to watch out for this month at CSE
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From Down To Earth
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Circular economy in agriculture
Wealth on paper, waste on the ground
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A new measure of poverty
Olivier Sterck proposes to measure poverty without deploying a poverty line, measuring it across the entire income distribution, rather than classifying people as poor or non-poor based on an arbitrary threshold
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India’s biopesticide regulation must protect farmer rights, grassroots practices
Navigating between protection and freedom in agricultural transition
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Who pays for eco-anxiety?
The main question is whether society will keep passing on the mental costs of climate change to future generations or whether climate governance will grow into a system that shifts responsibility based on past emissions and structural capacity
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    WATCH | Beyond the Bins: How Bulk Waste Generators made Indore India's cleanest city again?
 
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Leading by Example: The Green School Audit 2025-26 Report
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State of India’s Environment 2026
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Factsheet: Restoring Lakes in Urban Areas Through Pollution Abatement
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
 
A weekly recipe from My Food Story, celebrating India’s rich food biodiversity.
Chhuchh: A water plant, helps treat various chest, respiratory issues, urinary and kidney infections in Himachal
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