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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Greenfield

Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss

A view of the Cop15 preparations in Kunming, China
China was unable to host the event in Kunming, originally slated for October 2020, due to the country’s zero-Covid policy. Photograph: VCG/Getty Images

The date for a key UN nature summit has finally been confirmed after more than two years of delays and amid fears momentum to halt biodiversity loss across the globe has been lost.

Ahead of the latest round of negotiations in Nairobi this week, the UN convention on biological diversity confirmed that the Cop15 biodiversity conference will now take place in Montreal, Canada, from 5 to 17 December, after it became clear China would not be able to host the event in Kunming due to the country’s zero-Covid policy.

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