Without fanfare, the final part of the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, chaired by the Chinese Minister of Ecology and the Environment, Huang Runqiu, began in Montreal on Wednesday 7 December, concluding 4 years of negotiations on a post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
“The European Union comes to Montreal with one goal: to achieve an ambitious agreement to protect and restore the only planet we have. Bringing nature back (in the...