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The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, has urged countries to take decisive action towards closing the funding gap to protect the Earth’s precious natural environment, as leaders gather in Montréal, Canada for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15.

With just a few days remaining before the end of COP15, there are high expectations from High-Level Segment

The UK has pledged £34m to preserve wildlife, plants and habitats across the globe as part of plans to improve protection of nature.

Does this impasse indicate a rift that could derail the Framework?   

President Xi Jinping will address the opening ceremony of the high-level segment of the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, via video link on Thursday.

“Green” solutions are now seen as delivering and/or protecting a vast range of ecosystem services, including water purification, air quality improvement, food security, increased livelihood, and better health and wellbeing.

Midway through the biggest United Nations biodiversity conference of the decade, developing countries walked out of finance negotiations after developed countries refused to discuss the Africa group’s proposal for a new global biodiversity fund. Co-chair of the Global Biodiversity Framework gro...

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Ministers from around the world arrived for the three-day high-level segment at the fifth Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada, beginning on Thursday for a nature-positive ...

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