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Post-2020 GBF with clear targets will help address multiple crises facing planet, said Inger Andersen, executive-director of UNEP

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During the UN Biodiversity Conference, about 20,000 delegates from across the world will negotiate an eight-year plan to preserve and restore biodiversity

Opinion -Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown.

Countries gathered on Tuesday for the start of a key UN nature conference in Montreal, aiming to broker a new global agreement to protect what’s left of Earth’s wildlife and natural spaces. Negotiators hope that the two-week summit, known as COP15, yields a deal that ensures there is more “nature” — animals, plants, and healthy

MONTREAL - Representatives from nearly 200 countries are to begin the real work Wednesday at a crucial meeting on global biodiversity — hard talks on hard targets for saving enough of the world's ecosystems to keep the planet functioning.

Secretary-General António Guterres called for a “peace pact with nature,” as well as “a dramatic step up in climate action.” UNIFEED

Negotiators have gathered in Montreal for a United Nations summit aimed at hammering out a Paris-style agreement to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030

Leading researchers say the UN biodiversity summit is ‘vastly more important’ than the recent Cop27 climate meeting

Inger Andersen spells out the challenges facing the planet as Cop15 delegates gather in Montreal