UN biodiversity summit postponed over new Covid variant

Paris (AFP) Dec 2, 2021

The second part of UN biodiversity summit COP15, set to take place in Switzerland in January, has been postponed over the new coronavirus variant Omicron, organisers said on Thursday. "Uncertainties posed by the Omicron variant and resulting travel measures and restrictions" have forced physical meetings to be postponed, they said in a statement. The Geneva meeting originally supposed to