UK’s ‘peanuts’ pledge for land and ocean conservation faces criticism at Cop15 | Cop15

The UK has announced it will give nearly £30m to support developing countries in delivering the target to protect 30% of land and ocean by 2030, an amount conservationists criticised as being “nothing like what’s needed”.

The announcement was made on Thursday as the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, started international

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Cop15: UK accused of hypocrisy over environment protection targets | Biodiversity

The UK’s environment targets are a missed opportunity to protect Britain’s rainforests, cold water coral reefs, chalk streams and peat bogs, environmentalists have said, amid accusations of hypocrisy over the government’s position at Cop15.

On Friday, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, announced the government’s legally binding targets at the UN

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