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The long-awaited CBD COP15 started this week in Montreal, Canada, after four years of intense negotiations and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

UN biodiversity conference renews global call to respect Indigenous rights and stewardship over critical territories.

/CNW/ - Indigenous peoples have been stewards of our natural environment since time immemorial. Conserving and restoring nature through Traditional Knowledge...

The COP15 negotiations on a plan for worldwide action to reverse the alarming trend of biodiversity loss by 2030 are likely to encounter three major challenges, said Huang Runqiu, China's minister of ecology and environment.

The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biodiversity kicked off Wednesday with summit leaders calling for international cooperation to tackle the rapidly declining nature and species extinction happening around the world.

With the onset of two-week negotiations of the COP15 biodiversity summit, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is urging heads of government, including the UK, to show strong leadership on nature and commit to attending ...

As a mega-biodiverse country, South Africa has ‘special role’ to play in the negotiations

Governments are meeting at the 15th Conference of the Parties, or COP 15, to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Montreal, Canada, from Dec 7-19 to agree on new global goals and a 2030 action plan for nature. This deal must set the world on a new course to address alarming biodiversity loss, which is also vital to combating the climate emergency, achieving food and water security, reducing our vulnerability to future pandemics, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Members of International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity stress their rights at biodiversity summit in Montreal

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