What really happened at Geneva’s crucial biodiversity negotiations?

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Talks ahead of the key Cop15 summit on halting mass extinction of life were slow – and much has been asked of the developing world

Two forest elephants cross a patch of savannah
Forest elephants in Gabon’s Pongara national park. The country, which is the last bastion of the sub-species, called for developed countries to provide $100bn a year of biodiversity finance in Geneva.Photograph: Jérôme Delay/AP

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Patrick Greenfield

@pgreenfieldukSat 2 Apr 2022 03.30 EDT

For talks that are meant to be about halting the mass extinction of life on Earth, the slow pace of negotiations in Geneva ahead of Cop15, the major biodiversity summit in Kunming,China, later this year, was not a hopeful sign that meaningful action would follow. As discussions drew to a close this week, little progress was made on the targets and goals that are meant to herald nature’s “Paris moment”.

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