What is at stake at COP15?

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been convening 196 countries for a Conference of the Parties (COP) every two years since its creation in 1992. COPs are used to evaluate progress made towards the objectives of the convention, as well as setting new ambitions to address the loss of biodiversity. This year is COP15, and the outcome of this summit will be the adoption of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which sets the international biodiversity policy for the coming decade.