At the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity under the Chinese Presidency (COP15, Montreal, 7-19 December), which is entering its final stretch, the EU confirmed on Friday 16 December that it will double its funding for global biodiversity with €37 billion from the EU budget by 2030 (see EUROPE B13079A11, B13026A10) and other countries and donors followed suit by endorsing the ‘Joint Donor Statement’, a non-binding political commitment to increase...