and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business subsidies.the largest UN nature conference yet, although business and industry increased disproportionately. Industry groups working in pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, agrochemicals, food and beverage processing and tech all had more people registered to attend, according to the analysis by DeSmog.
There was also a 25% increase in biotech representatives, who Soria said were “aggressive in pushing back on progress related to digital sequencing information ”. This was theto make companies share profits from commercial discoveries derived from nature’s genetics. “Seems all of a sudden the private and business sector woke up and now they’re trying to defend their interests,” he said.
Country parties determine their own delegations and who is going to represent them, and it is not controlled by the UN, which holds the convention on biological diversity .
said he felt torn about the size of industry presence. “On the one hand, I optimistically see it as sign that nature is being taken seriously in terms of business and finance. We need these actors to be involved in discussions if we are to mainstream biodiversity across all sectors, and we need