COP15: UK pledges £29m to help developing countries meet '30 by 30' nature protection goal

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has announced the UK has earmarked £34m in new funding to support developing countries in their efforts to protect and restore nature. Coffey made the announcement on the sidelines of the COP15 Summit in Montreal, where she is taking part in high-level political negotiations on the terms of a new global pact that should result in a string of new targets and policies to reverse nature's decline by 2030. Ministers arrived at the Summit today and are tasked with ushering the negotiations to their end game following several days during which the talks ...