Over the next two weeks, countries are negotiating a biodiversity agreement at Cop15 in Montreal. It will cover a vast range of issues: protecting the Earth, pesticides, preventing extinctions, government subsidies, plastic pollution, invasive species, nature restoration, and noteworthy flashpoints.
In particular, pollution, human-wildlife conflict, and soil health are among the topics up for discussion, as 193 governments wrangle over the “fate of the living world” in the negotiating halls, side rooms, and corridors of the Palais des congrès.
These are the targets that could make the final agreement, known as the post-2020 biodiversity framework, which is due to be completed on 19 December. As always, everything could change in the last hours of negotiations.
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