COP27 does little for next month’s global agenda: nature loss

COP27 does little for next month’s global agenda: nature loss

The U.N. climate talks in Egypt closed on Sunday with a resolution to address the dual crises of climate change and nature loss, but did little to boost next month's global meeting on biodiversity.

Countries will gather in Montreal in two weeks' time to seek a global deal to protect the world's declining wildlife and degraded ecosystems.

Many environment ministers and campaigners have said the climate talks should underline the importance of protecting nature to help to limit climate change.

But the final deal repeated much of the same language on nature as last year's Glasgow pact, and there was no mention of the upcoming U.N. biodiversity summit - COP15 - to take place Dec. 7-19.

The decision "failed to signal the need for (COP15) to be successful, demonstrating the continued unnecessary and outdated walls between the U.N. climate and biodiversity approaches," said Brian O'Donnell, director of non-profit organisation Campaign for Nature.

Campaigners are calling for a fully-fledged "Paris Agreement for nature" at COP15 under which countries would set national conservation targets and then report routinely on their progress in meeting them as has happened for carbon emissions following the Paris climate accord.

"If nations are committed to the text just adopted in Egypt, then they