With the draft agreement still being negotiated, activists worry there wouldn’t be enough time for an ambitious deal before the summit closes on Dec. 19
Hundreds of people on Saturday braved sub-zero temperatures to march the streets of Montreal, the host city of this year’s UN biodiversity summit, demanding a strong new deal to protect nature worldwide.
“We are inside the negotiations, we see what is happening and it is clearly not sufficient compared to our ambitions and our priorities,” said the Global Youth Biodiversity Network’s Esmeralda Wirtz, who travelled from Belgium to attend the summit. “That’s why it is important to be on the streets today.”
Opinion: Indigenous cultures hold the keys to sustaining our planet. At COP15, will we finally be listening? With the draft agreement still being negotiated, Soria worried there wouldn’t be enough time for an ambitious deal before the summit closes on Dec. 19.Activists march through Montreal as delegates convened for the COP15 summit.Police on horseback, bicycle and foot patrolled the perimeter of the peaceful march, from where it began in Montreal’s Mont Royal Park to the city’s downtown, where COP15 is being held from Dec. 7-19.
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