At a stakeholder feedback session to discuss the outcomes of COP15 in December 2022, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy emphasised that financing is vital if we are to implement the global targets agreed upon.
‘My concern is the natural reticence of African governments and indigenous peoples for all of these solutions that are coming out, like nature-based solutions… is we’re losing out on the possibilities that we have from this convention’ – Kenyan biodiversity scientist David Obura.
As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference kicks off in Montreal, Canada, many people will be ignoring it. But, as this gathering of diplomats, scientists and civil society is showing, conserving biodiversity is imperative to reaching climate targets, and those targets are key to achieving g.