World leaders gather in Montreal for COP15 biodiversity summit

Montreal: Leaders and negotiators from 196 countries, including India, gathered here in Canada for a two-week conference expected to adopt a landmark agreement to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

During the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) being held from December 7 to 19, about 20,000



delegates from across the world will negotiate an eight-year plan to preserve and restore biodiversity.

They will do so through the  Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a treaty adopted for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and related issues.