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Post-2020 global biodiversity framework to dominate COP15

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A Maasai man walks with his livestock in search of grassland for them to graze, at Ilangeruani village, near Lake Magadi, in Kenya, November 9, 2022. The ongoing biodiversity conference known as COP15 hopes to set goals for the world for the next decade to help conserve the planet's biodiversity and stem the loss of nature. [AP]

The adoption of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework is top of the agenda at the United Nations conference as the world faces "the greatest loss of species on Earth since the dinosaurs' demise."

"There is no planet B," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), told Xinhua ahead of the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) scheduled for December 7-19 in Montreal, Canada.

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