NAIROBI — Efforts to draft an ambitious global agreement on halting nature loss ended Sunday with little progress made in the Nairobi negotiations, leaving limited time for brokering a biodiversity pact this year.
"There is a significant amount of work in front of us… a lot more than what we thought," said meeting co-chair Basile van Havre, of Canada’s environment ministry. Parties were still debating, for example, whether the agreement should address pesticide use. Meanwhile, delegates had removed all mention of infrastructure, such as roads, threatening wildlife, Broekhoven said."We cannot afford to fail," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
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