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December 15, 2022

Protect the oceans to protect food securityNature
An aerial view of islands in Palau in this undated photo. REUTERS/Jackson Henry

The most important summit most people have never heard of will happen this December in Montreal, Canada.

At the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the world’s countries aim to agree to a once-in-a-decade global deal to halt the runaway destruction of the natural world.

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