Cop15 security operation will be biggest for 20 years, Montreal police say
Protests against oil and mining have been planned, as thousands of delegates arrive for UN biodiversity summit Police in Montreal are bracing for their biggest...
Category : Biodiversity
Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts
Ministers and experts say disputes between co-hosts unlikely to disrupt efforts to reach deal on protecting natural world More than 10,000 scientists, government officials and...
‘Paris agreement’ for nature imperative at Cop15, architects of climate deal say
Leaders say December biodiversity summit in Montreal is ‘unprecedented’ chance to turn tide on nature loss The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world...
Cop27: Paris agreement architects demand deal for nature – live
The focus at the climate conference turns to biodiversity, and a draft cover text is expected to emerge A long-mooted deposit return scheme in the...
Kigali summit to outline strategy for nature conservation in Africa
First continent-wide meeting aims to set out plans to halt and reverse habitat and species loss in protected areas on land and sea African leaders...
Wild species support half of world’s population, report finds
Sustainability is key to survival of billions of people, says UN study, which notes income from wild species incentivises conservation • Patrick Vallance: ‘We need...
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs
Nairobi biodiversity talks end in stalemate, prompting open letter to world leaders calling for action before Montreal conference UN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point...
‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss, finds World Resources Institute Pristine rainforests...
What really happened at Geneva’s crucial biodiversity negotiations?
Talks ahead of the key Cop15 summit on halting mass extinction of life were slow – and much has been asked of the developing world...
Is a Madagascan mine the first to offset its destruction of rainforest?
Researchers say the island’s biggest mine is on track to achieve no net loss of forest but that ‘there remain important caveats’ Ambatovy mine on...
