Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to attend the Convention for Biological Diversity, known as COP15, in person in Montreal in December 2022.
The UK is committed to playing a leading role at CBD COP15 this year to secure agreement to ambitious global action over the next decade. Lord Goldsmith will head the UK delegation, and attendance by myself and other UK Government Ministers will be confirmed in due course.