The 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was planned to be held in April 2022 in

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, China, but was postponed, for a fourth time, to the third quarter of 2022 according to the UN secretariat office on March 29. It was originally scheduled to be held in October 2020, but was delayed due to the

Covid-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

. In June 2022, the UN secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity and China’s environment ministry said in separate statements that the meeting would be held in December 2022 in

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, Canada, where the secretariat is based, though China would remain the president of the summit. Several cities signed the "Montreal Pledge" in advance of the conference to commit to protect

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in their cities through 15 actions. During the talks, divisions remained on numerous issues as the conference went into its final days, such as disputes over the funding for conservation efforts. There was also discussion that protections for marine biodiversity could be dropped completely. An op-ed published in ''

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'' in mid-December criticized the proceedings as being very slow and lacking urgency. On December 19, 190 countries signed on to the agreement which includes protecting 30% of land and oceans by 2030 (

30 by 30 30 by 30 (or 30x30) is a worldwide initiative for governments to designate 30% of Earth's land and ocean area as protected areas by 2030. The target was proposed by a 2019 article in ''Science Advances'' "A Global Deal for Nature: Guiding pri ...

) and 22 other targets intended to reduce biodiversity loss. Other countries said the agreement does not go far enough to protect biodiversity, and that the process was rushed. COP15 adopted a comprehensive package of 6 items:https://www.cbd.int/article/cop15-cbd-press-release-final-19dec2022 * L25:

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(GBF) * L26: Monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework * L27: Mechanisms for planning, monitoring, reporting and review * L28: Capacity-building and development and technical and scientific cooperation * L29: Resource mobilization * L30: Digital sequence information on genetic resources.

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