Efforts to draft an ambitious global agreement on halting nature loss ended on Sunday with little progress made in the Nairobi negotiations, leaving limited time for brokering a biodiversity pact this year.
About 1,000 negotiators from 150 countries were supposed to finalize a new draft agreement on protecting nature and wildlife, which would then be considered for adoption at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada, in December.
However, by Sunday’s closing, the delegations had agreed on the wording of only two of more than 20 goals, with much of the draft document still riddled with brackets — signaling a lack of