A climate protest in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2019. -
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Initially scheduled for last June and postponed to January 2021 in Marseille, the World Conservation Congress, a major international meeting on biodiversity, has once again been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic, announced the Ministry of Ecological Transition. and IUCN this Wednesday.
The new dates for the event "will be announced soon," the two sources said in press releases.
An appointment to update the "red list" of threatened species
The Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is normally held every four years, is the occasion for thousands of nature conservation actors - governments, NGOs, experts - to '' establish priorities and launch new actions to protect ecosystems.
It is also the time to update the IUCN “Red List” of threatened species.
Tens of thousands of people were expected at the event, which was to pave the way for another important international meeting on biodiversity, COP15, initially scheduled for October in China, and which was also postponed without a new date.
In this context, the future IUCN congress, "forum for consultation, (...) remains as a major step on the road to # COP15", commented on Twitter the Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Bérangère Abba.
President Emmanuel Macron had also planned a summit of heads of state, “One planet summit”, on the sidelines of the IUCN congress and ahead of COP15.
The government did not immediately say whether this summit was also postponed.
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