Further integrating biodiversity in all relevant sectoral policies and in international agendas: that was the goal of the high-level segment (Cancun, 2-4 December) of the 13th conference of the parties to the United Nations framework convention on biodiversity (COP 13, 4-17 December) at which the EU was a participant (see EUROPE 11648).
The proposal for a decision tabled calls for biodiversity to be built into the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the Paris...