The European Union has a mandate for the final segment of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) to be held in Montreal from 7 to 19 December to adopt an ambitious global framework for biodiversity, as the EU hopes.
The EU Council conclusions formally establishing the EU’s negotiating position for this UN conference and for related conferences (COP-MOP10 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and COP-MOP4 of the Nagoya Protocol) were...