— The Palestinian enclave's health ministry said troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some patients including hospital director. Later the same day, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said at least 30 people were killed in Israeli strikes on several houses in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya.
— "To keep emissions below the critical 1.5-degree target set in Paris in 2015, countries must cut emissions by 42 percent overall by 2030 and achieve a 57 percent reduction by 2035."
— 700,000 internally displaced in Haiti in a stark 22% increase in just three months.
— "Descendants of slaves and Indigenous are agents of nature conservation," Brazil's Racial Equality Minister Anielle Franco told Reuters. "In fact, agents of conservation of our planet." People of African descent occupy roughly 2 million square km (772,200 square miles) of rural land in Latin America, according to John Anton Sanchez, a researcher with the Black Communities Process (PCN), an umbrella group for community organizations. That's an area larger than Mexico and it is more than 80% preserved thanks to Afro-descendant communities, he said.
— When the agreement was signed 2 years ago, 17 percent of terrestrial and 10 percent of marine areas were protected — which hasn't changed significantly. As of this week, around 46 percent of countries have submitted targets and less than 15 precent submitted plans for reaching them.
— Australia has yet to submit its targets while India has not submitted a national plan. Brazil, which includes much of the Amazon rainforest, hasn't submitted targets or a plan. The United States, which is not party to the biodiversity convention, is not required to submit any plans. But the Biden administration has committed to protecting a third of American land and waters by 2030.