Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity -- can the COP15 summit deliver?
- Written by Nathan Cooper, Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Getty ImagesThousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown.
COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity targets and a new...




