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Rainforest-rich nations ensure COP15 deal on nature sticks

A United Nations summit approved on Monday a landmark global deal to protect nature and direct billions of dollars toward conservation but objections from key African nations, home to large tracts of tropical rainforest, held up its final passage.

Reuters

Greens lambast Labor for failing to offer extra funding for global nature deal at Cop15

While other countries have made additional pledges, Australia criticised for failing to offer more than its budget commitments

The Guardian - AU

The US touts support for biodiversity – but at Cop15, it remains on the sidelines

Washington hasn’t signed a 30-year-old pact, leaving Biden’s envoy in the role of ‘influencer’ in Montreal

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The Earth's Corr: We need to give nature legal rights

The only future where we all thrive is one where we work in harmony with nature and treat it with the same care we do our children, who just a few generations ago had no rights either

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UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like?

The 196 countries meeting for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, are negotiating a new set of targets for reversing the loss of Earth’s biodiversity. They have set themselves a formidable challenge: ensuring humanity is “living in harmony with nature” by 2050.

The Conversation

Thérèse Coffey accused of undermining Cop15 talks with weak targets

Environment secretary disappoints campaigners by failing to set overall targets for river health and protected habitats

The Guardian - UK

The Earth's Corr: Nature collapse means the end of us all and that should worry everyone

We are wiping out other species at an alarming rate to get what we want

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Watered down: why negotiators at Cop15 are barely mentioning the ocean

With only two instances of the word ‘ocean’ in the latest 5,000-word working agreement, delegates fear marine biodiversity is being sacrificed

The Guardian - UK

COP15: A call to action for investors to help us meet vital biodiversity goals

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, opened the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montréal with a stark message: “Without nature, we are nothing. Nature is our life-support system, and yet humanity seems hell bent on destruction.”

The Conversation

Cop15: Lula calls on rich nations to give more to protect Earth’s ecosystems

Brazil’s incoming president adds voice to demand as Montreal talks restart after series of walkouts

The Guardian - UK

'Nature is in peril and we do not have another decade to save it' - Minister Malcolm Noonan tells COP15

“Ireland is committed to supporting negotiations for an ambitious global biodiversity framework that will halt and reverse biodiversity loss."

Irish Mirror

First Nations get conservation

Guardian programs offer one example of how governments can work with Indigenous peoples

Salon

Actor and activist James Cromwell warns COP15 'we are killing the only home we will ever have'

Delegations from around the world are in Montreal for the China/Canada co-chaired event from December 7-19

Irish Mirror

UN biodiversity talks hampered by ‘lack of political will’: WWF

World Wildlife Fund urges more ambitious targets after developing nations stage COP15 walkout over funding plans.

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The Guardian - UK

Walkouts and tensions as row over finance threatens to derail Cop15 talks

Delegates from developing nations leave discussions as divisions grow over who should pay to protect biodiversity

The Guardian - UK

Cop15 was meant to be nature’s Paris moment, but Greta Thunberg’s ‘blah, blah, blah’ cry is proving right

In Montreal, progress on biodiversity issues has been slow. We cannot go on like this

Irish Mirror

Ireland announces two new marine protected areas ahead of COP15 attendance

Delegates from around the world are gathering at the Chinese-Canadian led UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal to come up with a plan to reverse biodiversity collapse

The Guardian - UK

Cop15 half-time report: China prompts fears of new ‘Copenhagen moment’

Negotiators say divisions mean risk is growing of a weak final agreement similar to Denmark summit in 2009

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Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail

At the crucial COP15 nature summit in Canada, almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life. Climate change, mining, urban development and more are threatening Earth’s biodiversity to an extent never before witnessed in human history.

Radio France Internationale

UN biodiversity talks limp towards a deal to save nature

Halfway through the UN’s Cop15 biodiversity talks in Montreal, there has been no real progress on the pivotal goals of conservation funding for developing nations, protecting 30 percent of the world’s land and oceans by 2030, and recognising the role indigenous people play in safeguarding nature.

The Guardian - UK

Plan to protect 30% of Earth divides and inspires at Cop15

The target is dominating at the biodiversity summit, but the problem of finding a balance between Indigenous peoples’ rights and conservation remains unresolved

The Guardian - UK

Can Cop15 protect ocean biodiversity from the big fish of the ‘blue economy’?

The sea has been ravaged by profiteers – many of whose lobbyists are circling in Montreal, says the author Guy Standing

Reuters

Activists dressed as birds and trees rally for nature at COP15 in Montreal

Hundreds of people on Saturday braved sub-zero temperatures to march the streets of Montreal, the host city of this year's U.N. biodiversity summit, demanding a strong new deal to protect nature worldwide.

Fortune

COP15’s message to the world: Invest $250 billion in nature or risk the consequences

One of the key themes of the summit in Montreal is the urgent need for businesses to spend more on bolstering Nature-based Solutions.

France 24

Biopiracy: The fight for fairness in the scientific exploitation of natural resources

Countries from the Global South are demanding that wealthy nations share the benefits of the biological resources extracted from their lands that are then used for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes. Known as “biopiracy”, the issue is a major roadblock at the UN’s COP15 talks on biodiversity.

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