Articles on COP15

Essential reading on COP15 developments – Challenges, fossil fuel lobbying, nature financing, disagreements, activism, subsidies, and nature pledges

• Cop15: Ireland must back up biodiversity ambition with greater protection of land - wildlife trust says - The Irish Times 15.12.22 320409
• Outlook 'Grim' Halfway Through Global Biodiversity Summit, Climate Groups Warn - CD 15.12.22 322429
• Walkouts and tensions as row over finance threatens to derail Cop15 talks - Guardian 14.12.22 320483
• Talks at COP15 Resume After Impasse Over Funds for Poor Nations - Bloomberg 14.12.22 320482
• Cop15 was meant to be nature’s Paris moment, but Greta Thunberg’s ‘blah, blah, blah’ cry is proving right - Guardian 14.12.22 319820
• UN biodiversity talks hampered by ‘lack of political will’: WWF - Al Jazeera 14.12.22 319718
• Cop15 half-time report: China prompts fears of new ‘Copenhagen moment’ - Guardian 13.12.22 319604
• UNIDO at COP15: Charting an industrialization path in harmony with nature path - UNIDO 13.12.22 322991
• Plan to protect 30% of Earth divides and inspires at Cop15 - Guardian 12.12.22 319424
• Can Cop15 protect ocean biodiversity from the big fish of the ‘blue economy’? - Guardian 12.12.22 319419
• Cop15: what are the key targets for the biodiversity agreement? - Guardian 10.12.22 319036
• The Biodiversity COP Has So Far Failed. Scientists Say This Year Must Be Different - Inside Climate News 09.12.22 319397
• COP15 Biodiversity Summit Highlights 'Deadly' US Attitude Toward the World - CD 09.12.22 319396
• COP15: Super Reefs Offer Hope for Ocean Recovery Ahead of Biodiversity Summit - Global Issues 09.12.22 319190
• Cop15 diary week two: tricky targets and hanging out in hammocks - Guardian 08.12.22 319586
• Biodiversity Talks Open as UN Chief Calls for 'Peace Pact' With Nature - VOA 07.12.22 320480
• What governments must agree at COP15 to accelerate business action on biodiversity and nature - WEF 07.12.22 319871
• World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature - Vox 07.12.22 318453
• World Leaders Must Come to COP15 Biodiversity Conference to Succeed - CD 07.12.22 319218
• COP15: three visions for protecting nature on the table at the UN biodiversity conference - Conversation 06.12.22 319042
• ‘We are at war with nature’: UN environment chief warns of biodiversity apocalypse - Guardian 06.12.22 319710
• The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide - Guardian 06.12.22 319711
• Global Leaders at COP15 Urged to Stop Extinction Now - Center for Biological Diversity 06.12.22 318457
• Global Biodiversity Summit Called 'Make-or-Break Moment' for Wildlife - CD 06.12.22 319217
• Five Things to Watch at the Biggest Biodiversity Summit - Bloomberg 06.12.22 318450
• Humanity has become ‘weapon of mass extinction’, UN head tells Cop15 launch - Guardian 06.12.22 318448
• Bold action towards a deal for nature - UNEP 06.12.22 318442
• Plan to declare 30% of the world protected areas by 2030 must place Indigenous peoples’ rights at its heart - Amnesty 06.12.22 318441
• COP15: three visions for protecting nature on the table at the UN biodiversity conference - Conversation 06.12.22 318439
• What is COP15? The UN biodiversity summit aiming to stop humanity's 'war on nature' - Euro News 06.12.22 318438
• Biodiversity conference opens in Montreal with focus on conservation targets - Global News 06.12.22 318434
• Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit - Guardian 05.12.22 318208
• COP15 FAQ: Why 20,000 delegates are coming to Montreal to talk nature - Montreal Gazette 05.12.22 318456
• ‘We need to be braver’: young naturalists on the world beyond Cop15 - Guardian 05.12.22 319709
• COP15: These are the latest biodiversity stories you need to read - WEF 05.12.22 318455
• Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter? - Al Jazeera 05.12.22 318435
• Making sense of Cop15: what to look out for in Montreal - Guardian 05.12.22 318378
• Cop15 security operation will be biggest for 20 years, Montreal police say - Guardian 05.12.22 318377
• ‘We need to be braver’: young naturalists on the world beyond Cop15 - Guardian 05.12.22 318373
• Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts - Guardian 04.12.22 318452
• Interactive: Who wants what at the COP15 biodiversity summit - Carbon Brief 02.12.22 320479
• Nature positive and 30x30 – just soundbites or the foundations of a Cop15 deal? - Guardian 01.12.22 317875
• What to expect at this year’s UN biodiversity conference: COP15 - UNFCCC 01.12.22 318436
• The Nature of Business: Corporate influence over the Convention on Biological Diversity - FOEI 12/22 319443
• COP15: What to expect at the biggest biodiversity summit in a decade - New Scientist 30.11.22 317874
• CBD COP 15: Biodiversity’s ‘Paris’ or ‘Copenhagen’? - Heinrich Böll Stiftung 25.11.22 322982
• For whose protection? - New Int 25.11.22 322152
• COP15 — here’s what you need to know - Eco Justice 22.11.22 318440
• Put the planet before football, UN head of Cop15 nature summit tells leaders - Guardian 05.07.22 293785
• COP15 explained: What is the biodiversity conference and why is it important? - NHM 22.06.22 294069
• COP15: UN biodiversity summit moved from China to Canada - 21.06.22 294068
• Global Summit to Halt Extinction Crisis Moved to Montreal - CD 21.06.22 317869
• Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss - Guardian 21.06.22 32314
• Biopiracy row at UN talks in Geneva threatens global deal to save nature - Guardian 30.03.22 280254
• As UN Biodiversity Talks Begin, 360+ Groups Blast Corporate-Backed 'Nature-Based Solutions' - CD 14.03.22 277362
• Kunming Declaration Sets Path Toward a More Just Global Biodiversity Framework - CD 21.10.21 260571
• Kunming Declaration's 30x30 biodiversity target is a good start, but not nearly enough - CD 15.10.21 258126
• What is the Kunming Declaration on Biodiversity Conservation and Should Businesses be Interested? - China Briefing 14.10.21 261112
• Biodiversity commitment builds hope for 'living in harmony with nature' - UN News 13.10.21 257899
• Nature Defenders Warn Global Biodiversity 'Kunming Declaration' Lacks Urgency - CD 13.10.21 261111
• Cop26 must not overshadow Kunming: we need joint climate and biodiversity goals - Guardian 11.10.21 257639
• 'Planetary Health Declaration' Issued Ahead of Key Biodiversity Summit - Common Dreams 07.10.21 257174
• Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Adopted at Global Biodiversity Summit - CD 10.09.21 317866
• Major UN biodiversity summit delayed for third time due to pandemic - Guardian 18.08.21 252905
• Human Rights and Biodiversity: Key Messages - UNEP 19.07.21 250475
• Draft UN agreement on biodiversity targets conservation, pollution, finance - Reuters 12.07.21 260498
• UN’s Kunming biodiversity summit delayed a second time - Guardian 19.03.21 239208
• Protect nature for world economic security, warns UN biodiversity chief - Guardian 16.01.21 232350
• 'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil - CD 04.12.20 227672
• Ahead of biodiversity summit, UN officials call for action to preserve the natural world - UN News 28.09.20 217595
• 'Ten years' to solve nature crisis, UN meeting hears - BBC 10/10 32357