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UN biodiversity meet moved from China amid ‘zero-COVID’ approach

The COP15 conference will aim to adopt a global framework for biodiversity to halt and reverse losses of the world's plants, animals, and ecosystems [File: Rebecca Naden/Reuters]

The United Nations has said it will move talks to secure a global post-2020 biodiversity agreement from China to Canada because of the former’s strict anti-coronavirus policies.

The December 5-17 summit of the UN UN Biodiversity Conference – known as COP15 – will take place in Montreal instead of Kunming, its secretariat said in a statement on Tuesday.

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