Steven Guilbeault

Indigenous Peoples in the Global South are calling out Canada for letting mining companies devastate their ancestral territories in the Amazon.

Negotiators at a global conference on saving the world's biodiversity were sharpening their focus on how to pay for it on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, as environment ministers from around the globe converged in Montreal for the final week of COP15.

Many key goals in a proposed agreement on protecting the planet's biodiversity remain unsettled as debate continues over who will pay for the ambitious pledges, delegates at a UN meeting in Montreal said on Monday, December 12, 2022.

Canada promises to restore 19 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 as international negotiations to save the world’s rapidly dwindling biodiversity carry on in Montreal.

If countries keep negotiating the terms of a new biodiversity plan — one that will determine the future of life on Earth — at the current pace, the world will continue to barrel head-first into the biodiversity crisis, civil society groups warn.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is certifying 14 more Canadian cities as bird-friendly.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says there's been agreement on one of Canada's main goals at the international conference in Montreal aimed at protecting the world's declining biodiversity. 

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.”

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

At least 2,253 species are at risk of being wiped out, according to a comprehensive new report on the status of wild plants, animals, insects and fungi in Canada.