COP15 News

• COP15: Negotiators reach nature deal ahead of convention’s last day

  The United Nations says three-quarters of the world's land has been altered by human activities and one million species face extinction this century as a result.

  Environment

  Dec 19, 2022
  
• COP15: Countries must overcome ‘trust deficit,’ UN official says at biodiversity talks

  "If we don't take care of our biodiversity, there will be no us," said Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Environment

  Dec 16, 2022
  
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• 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
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• COP15: Developing countries walk out of Montreal biodiversity conference over funding

  Discussions at the Montreal conference are also scheduled on how global capital flows can be harnessed to work with nature rather than exploit it.

  Environment

  Dec 14, 2022
• Canada joins new sustainable mining alliance at COP15

  Critical minerals refer to about three dozen metals and minerals needed for most modern technology, including laptops and cellphones.

  Canada

  Dec 12, 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
• 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
• 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
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• ‘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
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• 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