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The agreements from the COP15 biodiversity summit are voluntary and non-binding, but the setting of goals and how to monitor progress will create more accountability, writes Rod Oram

A new conservation deal adopted this week at the U.N. summit in Montreal puts the world on a strong track to halt the rapid decline in nature - but only if wealthy nations deliver enough funding and all countries prioritize conservation.

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A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

Inger Andersen said we must not ‘pause for a second’ as we ‘change the relationship between people and nature’

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

The talking is over, and a text has been agreed on the next decade of targets to save the natural world. Here are the highs and lows of the Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) agreement

The Montreal biodiversity conference set some ambitious targets, says Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts

The pact has been likened to the Paris agreement for climate and commits countries to targets to protect and restore biodiversity

Montreal (AFP) - Expectations heading into a UN biodiversity conference in Montreal were about as low as they could be. 

Montreal (AFP) - Countries reached a historic deal on Monday to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world's species and ecosystems, in what the UN chief hailed as "a peace pact with nature."