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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

Draft UN biodiversity deal calls to protect 30% of planet by 2030

Montreal (AFP) - Countries gathered at a UN meeting on biodiversity in Montreal were inching closer Sunday to a deal to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and to stump up $30 billion in yearly aid for the developing world to save their ecosystems.

AFP

Draft UN nature deal calls to protect 30% of planet by 2030

Montreal (AFP) - A UN nature deal proposed Sunday calls to protect at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and asks rich countries to stump up $30 billion in yearly aid for developing nations to save their ecosystems.

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UN nature deal calls to protect 30% of planet by 2030

Montreal (AFP) - A UN nature deal proposed Sunday calls to protect at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and asks rich countries to stump up $20 billion in yearly aid for developing nations to save their ecosystems.

AFP

China set to offer compromise to save summit nature accord

Montreal (AFP) - China, which chairs a high-stakes UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, is due to present a long-awaited compromise text on Sunday in an attempt to seal the "peace pact with nature" that the planet sorely needs.

AFP

What campaigners want to see in UN nature deal

Montreal (AFP) - As high-stakes UN biodiversity talks in Montreal draw to a close, delegates will be presented Sunday with a draft deal to safeguard the planet's ecosystems and species by 2030.

AFP

Hope stirs for deal to save nature at UN talks

Montreal (AFP) - Top officials at high-stakes UN biodiversity negotiations said Saturday they were confident of securing a major deal to save the natural world from destruction.

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At UN summit, new hope for deal to save nature

Montreal (AFP) - Top officials at high-stakes UN biodiversity negotiations said Saturday they were confident of securing a major deal to save the natural world from destruction.

AFP

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

The Guardian - US

Robot plant grows, wilts on fate of UN nature talks

Montreal (AFP) - It's not always easy to make sense of the complex environmental diplomacy taking place at a UN summit billed as humanity's last hope to save nature.

AFP

At COP15, businesses urged to act for nature

Montreal (AFP) - Widely blamed for ravaging Earth's ecosystems, big businesses are nevertheless being turned to as key players in a deal to save nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference.

AFP

How your emissions threaten biodiversity

It is time to pay attention to the other climate crisis: species extinction

Salon

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

Ready-to-wear, summer 2023: Three designers find meaning at extremes of fashion

Can ready-to-wear collections help us answer key questions about who we are and how we should live? On exiting the latest Rick Owens show, the answer from Montreal-based fashion duo Matières Fécales was a resolute "yes". Fashion can imbue life with meaning, even if it’s merely an aesthetic project, as…

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China urges action as ministers meet at U.N. nature summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the world to take action on preventing nature loss in a video message to ministers from more than 120 countries assembled in Montreal for the U.N. biodiversity summit, of which China holds the presidency.

The Guardian - UK

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

AFP

Actor James Cromwell bashes world leaders for absence at UN nature summit

Montreal (AFP) - A high-stakes UN summit in Canada seen as vital to saving the world's biodiversity has failed to attract a single world leader beyond the host country's prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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Developing nations demand more money at crunch UN biodiversity talks

Montreal (AFP) - The thorny issue of how much money wealthy countries are willing to pony up to protect the world's remaining biodiversity took center stage Wednesday at UN talks in Montreal aimed at creating a "peace pact with nature."

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Irish Mirror

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

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Far from Qatar, fans in Morocco's diaspora are celebrating a historic World Cup run

With much of the world rallying around his country's unprecedented run, a member of the Moroccan diaspora says that "to me, we already won the World Cup."

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

AFP

Rich nations oppose new biodiversity fund

Montreal (AFP) - Creating a new global fund for biodiversity -- a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal -- "would take years" and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanisms, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday.

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

Capital & Main

How Do My — and Your — Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Biodiversity?

It is time for journalists to pay attention to the other climate crisis: species extinction.

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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