Record numbers of scientific conferences are being cancelled across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Record numbers of scientific conferences are being cancelled across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ecologists and activists now fear key global environmental targets could fail to be set as major international meetings are thrown into doubt.
The fifteenth conference of the parties to the UN biodiversity convention, known as COP15, was planned for October in China, but delays to subsidiary body and working group meetings will force this to change. Questions now hang over the climate change conference COP26, tentatively scheduled for November in Scotland.
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