Convention on Biological Diversity
(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any Ministers from her Department plan to attend the COP 15 UN Biodiversity Conference.
This question was answered on 9th November 2022
Defra is the lead department for the Convention on Biological Diversity, working closely with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) and Cabinet Office. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will lead the UK delegation to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15). Lord Benyon, Minister of State for Defra, will also attend.