What campaigners want to see in United Nations nature deal

Key funding: Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives for a European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels. The body has committed �7bil (US$7.4bil or RM32.7bil) for the period until 2027 to preserve ecosystems, double its prior pledge. — Reuters

MONTREAL: As high-stakes United Nations (UN) biodiversity talks in Montreal draw to a close, delegates will be presented with a draft deal to safeguard the planet’s ecosystems and species by 2030.

Will it amount to the “peace pact with nature” that UN chief Antonio Guterres said the world desperately needed?