At the last United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15), which ended on December 19 in Montreal, countries managed to adopt a new global framework to "halt and reverse" the collapse of biodiversity on Earth by 2030. A few weeks earlier, at the equivalent climate conference, COP27 in Egypt, an agreement was found to create a fund for the irreversible damage caused by global warming. Negotiations also began to develop a legally binding international treaty aiming at ending plastic pollution.
