On Monday 11 October the Council of the EU gave the green light to the European Commission to approve the ‘Kunming Declaration’, on behalf of the EU, and it is expected to be adopted by the Parties to the International Convention on Biological Diversity, at the end of the political segment of the first part of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15 - 11-12 October).
The green light was given without debate on the day the high-level session of...