Expert calls on COP15 to come up with concrete measures to end biodiversity destruction

LUSAKA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, should come up with practical resolutions for countries to adopt measures to protect the biodiversity from further destruction, an expert said on Tuesday.

"This Conference of Parties is very crucial in the sense that it is a COP that is trying to address issues of biological diversity in the whole world. You know that the world has been losing a lot of animals, plants, and related species at a very alarming rate," Morgan Katati, the chief executive officer of the Zambia Institute of Environmental Management, a local organization championing social and environmental justice, said in an interview.