'They have to be met': UN Biodiversity Chief Astrid Schomaker on the global nature goals

Cecilia Keating
clock • 10 min read
Astrid Schomaker
Image:

Astrid Schomaker

Executive Secretary of the CBD sits down with BusinessGreen ahead of the crucial COP16 Biodiversity Summit

Later this month, governments from around the world will convene in the Colombian city of Cali for the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity Diversity (CBD), also known as...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Cecilia Keating
Author spotlight

Cecilia Keating

View profile
More from Cecilia Keating

We need the transition to a low-carbon economy to reverse historic injustices

Why the Women in Green Business Awards is more important than ever

More on Biodiversity

Rita El Zaghloul: 'The real threat to development isn't conservation, it's ecological collapse'
Biodiversity

Rita El Zaghloul: 'The real threat to development isn't conservation, it's ecological collapse'

Director of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People explains why biodiversity conservation is still not receiving the level of attention or urgency it deserves compared to climate change

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 07 July 2026 • 8 min read
Tree Council launches £2.5m 'Trees Outside Woodland' planting fund
Biodiversity

Tree Council launches £2.5m 'Trees Outside Woodland' planting fund

Defra-backed fund opens for a second year, after doubling support for tree, hedgerow, and orchard projects in England

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 07 July 2026 • 3 min read
'Trawled and Mauled': Campaigners demand full bottom trawling ban in Marine Protected Areas
Biodiversity

'Trawled and Mauled': Campaigners demand full bottom trawling ban in Marine Protected Areas

Oceana report warns failure to impose ban on bottom trawling in protected areas poses severe threat to dolphins, porpoises, whales, and seabirds

James Murray
James Murray
clock 07 July 2026 • 4 min read