COP 15

• COP15: Environment ministers try to salvage talks after walkout over financing

  More than 60 nations from the global south walked out over concerns that pledges from rich countries to fund conservation were too small and too vague.

  Environment

  Dec 15, 2022
  
• COP15: Progress slow but some agreements made at biodiversity talks, Guilbeault says

  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says there's been agreement on one of Canada's main goals at the international conference in Montreal.

  Environment

  Dec 9, 2022
  
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• Canada’s COP15 negotiator says business groups have role to play in biodiversity

  The co-chair of one of the Montreal conference's working groups says the private sector is looking for rules and certainty on the environmental effectiveness of its investments.

  Environment

  Dec 8, 2022
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• COP15: Real work on hard targets gets underway at UN biodiversity conference

  Observers are optimistic countries at the COP15 meeting in Montreal can agree that nearly a third of Earth's lands and waters should come under some form protection by 2030.

  Environment

  Dec 7, 2022
• ‘Nature is under threat,’ Trudeau warns to open COP15 biodiversity conference

  Over the next 14 days, international negotiators in Montreal are being asked to hammer out an agreement to begin to restore the ecosystems we have destroyed and damaged.

  Environment

  Dec 6, 2022
• COP15 nature talks in Montreal are already off course, UN biodiversity head warns

  At COP15, the goal is to negotiate a plan that will both halt further losses of ecosystems by 2030 and begin to reverse the damage that has already been done.

  Environment

  Dec 6, 2022
• COP15: Biodiversity conference opens in Montreal with focus on conservation targets

  Diplomats have hammered out 22 targets for the negotiations, which include halting the spread of invasive species and reducing the use of pesticides and plastics.

  Environment

  Dec 6, 2022
• COP15: Canada, China jointly host UN biodiversity talks amid rising political tensions

  Since China hasn't opened its borders to international travellers, it agreed to move the meeting to Montreal, which is home to the offices of the UN biodiversity secretariat.

  Environment

  Dec 5, 2022
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• ‘Paris moment’: COP15 conference in Montreal seeks hard targets on biodiversity

  Critics however say such mammoth events set out targets at such meetings that are rarely met and ask if there isn't a better way to respond to environmental crises.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2022
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• Montreal bracing for heavy traffic with arrival of COP15 conference

  The police presence around Montreal's convention centre Palais des Congrès is increasing as the December 7 start date of COP15 approaches.

  Traffic

  Nov 23, 2022