The European Union, co-organiser with the United Nations of an event to boost the ambition of world leaders in favour of biodiversity, on Tuesday 20 September in New York called on all countries (UNGA-77) to double their funding for nature and to secure agreement on an ambitious framework for biodiversity at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15, Montreal, 7-19 December).
With funding being the key issue in these stalled international...