SECTORAL POLICIES / Biodiversity

Czech Presidency submits draft EU Council conclusions on COP15 for an ambitious global framework

Brussels, 07/10/2022 (Agence Europe)

The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU presented to the Member States, on Monday 3 October, draft conclusions to fine-tune the EU’s position at the final segment of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15, Montreal 7-19 December - see EUROPE B12992A7).

Since 2020, when the COP was originally scheduled to take place in China, the EU has been working to ensure that it results in an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) with a...