The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee and House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee will be hearing from Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and Foreign Office Minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park on COP15, the international biodiversity conference.
Meeting details
At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Inquiry
COP15: the international biodiversity conference
The Committees will be scrutinising the Government’s approach to COP15, and the outcomes of the meetings held in Montreal in December.
Members are expected to ask questions on a range of areas. Among the topics expected to be raised are the following:
- The agreement reached at COP15 and its implementation;
- Monitoring and enforcement, including targets for species in the UK and in the overseas territories;
- Development of a domestic biodiversity strategy;
- Domestic delivery of COP15 goals through Environment Act structures;
- Finance and resources for implementation of COP15 goals;
- The role of business in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF);
- The GBF and measures to reverse deforestation.