21/06/2022 (Agence Europe) – The final part of the fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), chaired by China, will be held in Montreal from 5 to 17 December and is expected to result in the approval of a landmark global agreement, announced the UN on Tuesday 21 June in Nairobi, where work has just resumed until 26 June to advance the negotiations. “The EU is pushing for an ambitious agreement”, said Commissioner for the Environment Virginijus Sinkevičius on 20 June (see EUROPE 12944/14, 12809/6). Originally scheduled for 2020 in Kunming, China, COP15 was postponed due to Covid-19 and then divided into two parts. The first part took place in Kunming last October. The proposed EU regulation on binding nature restoration targets, which was also repeatedly delayed, is expected on Wednesday 22 June (see EUROPE 12895/10). (AN)