The EU-27 Environment Ministers, the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council, and the European Commission consider the first draft of the UN text published on 12 July on the future post-2020 framework for global biodiversity to be a good starting point, but that it needs to be significantly fleshed out in the negotiations that will resume on 23 August and continue until the expected adoption of a global framework toward the end of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on...