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 final week of negotiations will take on greater urgency from Thursday as environment ministers of the 196 members of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) enter the fray.
