CBD COP15: Why the whole world will be watching Montreal this December – WWF
October 21, 2022
Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks this fall. The first is focused on climate, and the second is focused on biodiversity. While they are treated separately, the solutions to overcome these crises are intertwined.
The UN’s annual climate summit is commonly called COP. Short for Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP27 will be in Egypt in mid-November.
The UN also holds a biodiversity convention, and COP15 (a.k.a. the CBD COP) was supposed to take place in Kunming, China in October 2020. Now, after a series of pandemic-related postponements, it’s been relocated to Montreal from December 7 to 19.
Before digging into what we can expect at the event in Montreal, let‘s back up a bit.
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