‘Fate of the living world’ will be decided at Cop15, say scientists

Leading researchers say the UN biodiversity summit is vastly more important' than the recent Cop27 climate meeting

The fate of the entire living world" will be determined at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists.

They said the gathering of the world's nations, which began on Wednesday in Montreal, is vastly more important than Cop27", the recent high-profile UN climate meeting. We say this because of the many dimensions of anthropogenic global change ... the most critical, complex and challenging is that of biodiversity loss," the researchers said.