Kunming: what’s needed to make this year’s biodiversity summit a success
This post is by Stanley Johnson, international ambassador for the Conservative Environment Network.
The date of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) has still to be confirmed. It was originally scheduled to be held in Kunming, China in the second quarter of this year (having been postponed from 2020), but it seems increasingly likely that an autumn date will be preferred in view of the continuing disruption caused by Covid 19. At the moment, the second half of October this year seems to be the favourite option, but the final decision must obviously rest with the host country, China.
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