EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Biodiversity

European Parliament calls on EU to set binding targets to set an example at COP15 in Kunming

Brussels, 16/01/2020 (Agence Europe)

Alarmed by the global biodiversity crisis, considered as dramatic as the climate crisis, in light of the IPBES assessment, MEPs on Thursday 16 January called on the EU to set binding targets to curb this disaster.

This, they believe, will put it in a strong position to work towards an ambitious and binding post-2020 global strategic framework at the 15^th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15, Kunming, 19 October to1 November), an agreement that is,...