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What COP15’s Global Biodiversity Framework will mean here in Canada

February 2, 2023

During a dramatic climax to December’s UN COP15 biodiversity summit, nearly 200 countries adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Containing four overarching goals and 23 specific targets, the new agreement aims to halt... Read More

During a dramatic climax to December’s UN COP15 biodiversity summit, nearly 200 countries adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework...
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We are nature: The world comes together as COP15 comes to a close in Montreal

December 21, 2022

The gavel fell, suddenly, at 3:33 a.m. Inside a massive hall on the fifth floor of Montreal’s Palais des Congrès, on December 19, the last day of negotiations, more than a thousand exhausted delegates... Read More

The gavel fell, suddenly, at 3:33 a.m. Inside a massive hall on the fifth floor of Montreal’s Palais des...
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For Canada, Indigenous-led conservation led COP15

December 21, 2022

During COP15’s final week, as negotiators inside the Palais des Congrès wrangled over the details of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, WWF-Canada and our partners were ramping up pressure on the critical importance of... Read More

During COP15’s final week, as negotiators inside the Palais des Congrès wrangled over the details of the Kunming-Montreal Global...
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‘We need to understand — we are nature:’ Indigenous leaders speak out at COP15

December 16, 2022

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press conference in the media room featuring speakers from three Indigenous nations. It was an opportunity... Read More

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press...
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A projection on the side of the Palais de Justice building that reads: “Let them know that all eyes are on them”

COP15: The world is watching. The clock is ticking. Wildlife is waiting

December 12, 2022

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from 30 offices around the world — have descended on Montreal’s Palais des Congrès for the... Read More

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from...
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WWF @ CBD COP15: What we’re up to during the UN biodiversity summit

December 6, 2022

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of the Parties for the UN Convention on Biological on Diversity, advocating for a Global Biodiversity... Read More

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of...
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Killer whale jumping out of the water in BC

Q&A: The UN COP15 summit needs to be a leap forward for nature

November 29, 2022

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of nature protections. CBD COP15, the UN biodiversity summit in Montreal from Dec. 7 – 19,... Read More

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of...
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CBD COP15: Why the whole world will be watching Montreal this December

October 21, 2022

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks this fall. The first is focused on climate, and the second is focused on biodiversity.... Read More

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks...
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Nine hopeful takeaways from our Nature and Climate Grant Program

November 5, 2025

What’s special about a song sparrow taking a break from its busy schedule of foraging and singing? Not much, at first glance. But look a little closer. The branch the bird sits on is... Read More

What’s special about a song sparrow taking a break from its busy schedule of foraging and singing? Not much,...
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How Indigenous communities in Canada are already implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework

December 23, 2024

“Industrialization has had a major devastating effect on every community that I’ve worked with — and I’ve worked with many communities both on the East Coast and West Coast of Canada, and a few... Read More

“Industrialization has had a major devastating effect on every community that I’ve worked with — and I’ve worked with...
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The wins in our sails: WWF-Canada looks back at 2024

December 23, 2024

We have reached the end of another hot one — in fact, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year ever, narrowly beating last year’s record and further cementing the past decade as... Read More

We have reached the end of another hot one — in fact, 2024 is on track to be the...
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COP16 comes together for Indigenous Peoples, falls apart on nature funding

November 6, 2024

By Tina Knezevic and Joshua Ostroff Two weeks of intense negotiations at the UN biodiversity summit COP16 in Cali, Colombia delivered mixed results, with important progress made to give Indigenous Peoples a permanent seat... Read More

By Tina Knezevic and Joshua Ostroff Two weeks of intense negotiations at the UN biodiversity summit COP16 in Cali,...
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