SECTORAL POLICIES / Biodiversity

COP15 in Montreal, EU welcomes promising ‘historic result’ to protect and restore 30% of terrestrial and marine areas by 2030

Brussels, 19/12/2022 (Agence Europe)

In the early hours of Monday morning, 19 December, the day after the football World Cup final in Qatar, the fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - COP15 under the Chinese presidency and without heads of State - ended in Montreal with an agreement on a post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF). It brought to a close 4 years of painstaking negotiations to try to contain the risk of the sixth mass extinction - negotiations that...