COP15

We need a watershed moment, one that galvanizes global action to protect nature, write Sandra Schwartz and Shawn McCarthy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s opening speech at COP15 was interrupted by a group of Indigenous protesters playing drums and singing “Canada is on native land” and “climate leaders don’t build pipelines.”

Coastal First Nations striving to protect to B.C.’s Great Bear Sea got a boost after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $800 million in funding for Indigenous-led conservation projects on Wednesday.

With the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal underway, the federal government is putting over $1 billion on the table for conservation projects led by Indigenous Peoples in Canada and for developing countries.

Representatives from nearly 200 countries are to begin the real work on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at a crucial meeting on global biodiversity — hard talks on hard targets for saving enough of the world's ecosystems to keep the planet functioning. 

Canada supports the goals of the European Union's forestry trade rules, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says, after a leaked letter recently revealed the country's efforts to water down proposed regulations right before the United Nations' global biodiversity conference kicks off in Montreal.

Biodiversity thrives under Indigenous protection, but will Indigenous rights and title play a key part in negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal — or will these issues remain at the margins?

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is clear about what he wants to see at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal: a peace pact with nature. 

Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to “avoid trade-offs” between people and conservation needs in a report on Monday, December 5, 2022.

The Quebec government is updating its list of threatened or vulnerable species for the first time in more than a decade, with 27 species either added or deemed in greater danger.

A major international conference on preserving the world's biodiversity is to open on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, with speakers including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Ending the “radio silence” on wireless radiation should be a late-breaking research topic for Canadian leadership as the country hosts the COP15 biodiversity conference, writes Meg Sears.

If global biodiversity — the subject of a huge international meeting in Montreal this week — is too much of a mouthful, try thinking instead about the white-throated sparrow. 

A major UN conference on biodiversity will get underway in Montreal on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world's land and oceans before the end of this decade. 

The outcome of the global gathering in Montreal may be our last best hope for nature, writes Dan Kraus.