Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend next month's U.N. biodiversity summit in Montreal, the country's environment minister said on Thursday - despite the event's official host China plan to send no invitations to world leaders.
At the nature summit, dubbed COP15, countries will try to agree a global deal to protect nature and wildlife, as species populations plummet and landscapes are degraded.. It is taking place in Montreal on Dec. 7-19, after being postponed four times from its original 2020 date in China's city of Kunming.But Canada's Trudeau will be present, the country's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told Reuters on Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
China's foreign ministry did not immediately repond to a request for comment sent outside office hours.Trudeau during this week's G20 meeting in Bali for allegedly leaking details about their closed-door discussions there.their interests in Canadian critical minerals, citing national security.
The EU environment commissioner said the bloc's president and other European leaders were keen to attend, but were concerned about the potential absence of Asian or African leaders. On Thursday, the Campaign for Nature environment group put out an "urgent call" for world leaders to attend COP15, saying high-level representatives of each government were needed on the ground for the meeting "to have a chance of success".
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