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Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University

UNBELIEVABLE: Three ways the upcoming un biodiversity summit could make a difference | History Defined

Projects on the Indus River in Pakistan are helping to tackle biodiversity loss. Salik Javed/Shutterstock

When negotiations at Cop15 – the UN’s biodiversity conference – ended in December 2022, many delegates breathed a sigh of relief.

Threatening snowstorms outside the convention centre in Montreal, Canada seemed to lift just as the political weather changed and the long-awaited Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework was agreed. It’s mission: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 in order to achieve the ultimate goal of a society living in harmony with nature by 2050.

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