The crucial COP15 summit to agree a new global deal to arrest declining biodiversity and the destruction of nature is set to be postponed until August – the fourth time it has been delayed.
A senior UN source said that the COP15 conference, which was due to be held at Kunming in China during April and May, will now start at the end of August instead. Past delays have been blamed on the covid-19 pandemic, despiteThe latest postponement means that COP15 will now take place almost two years later than originally scheduled, and leaves the world without targets for stemming extinctions and stopping habitat losses this decade.
is going hybrid, with a live in-person event in Manchester, UK, that you can also enjoy from the comfort of your own home,A spokesperson for the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN body behind the COP15 summit, told: “The COP [conference of the parties] bureau, at its last meeting, discussed that the UN Biodiversity Conference could be moved to the third quarter. However, the official decision on this has not yet been taken.”.
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