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Pressure mounts on EU to maintain ambition on biodiversity at COP15
(EurActiv, 16 Dec 2022) Lawmakers and civil society are calling on the EU to support an ambitious agreement on nature protection at the COP15 international biodiversity conference following concerns the bloc is not defending a robust text.
International governments are meeting in Montreal, Canada, between 7 and 19 December to seek an agreement on a Global Biodiversity Framework, hoped to be the Paris Agreement of nature protection.
Many are looking to Europe to drive ambition, but there are worries that the European Commission is not supporting ambition in the text and allegations of France actively blocking the process.
On Tuesday (13 December), a group of 10 EU lawmakers from the Greens, Renew, S&D and the Left called on EU environment chief Virginijus Sinkevičius to “show true leadership and defend the strongest possible text”.
“Despite the declared intent to champion the adoption of an ambitious and transformative Global Biodiversity Framework, we understand that the EU does not actively support efforts to ensure references to the quality of protected areas in the negotiation text,” they wrote in a letter, seen by EURACTIV.
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EurActiv, 16 Dec 2022: Pressure mounts on EU to maintain ambition on biodiversity at COP15
