Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday he's trying to light a fire under his international colleagues to pick up the pace on negotiations at an international meeting on saving the planet's biodiversity.
"I have already spoken to my peers, asking them to instruct their delegations to start removing brackets," he said. "It's no longer time to add new text.
Negotiators have had two years to prepare for the conference and there's no excuse for further delay, said Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim of the African group Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad."From the team that's in the room, what I'm hearing back is that they're feeling good," said Sandra Schwartz of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.
But Guilbeault, a veteran of almost two dozen such high-level environmental conferences as both activist and politician, said he's not giving up.
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