The resumed second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15) elected new vice-presidents of the Bureau and the CBD subsidiary bodies, concluding its work. The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) “placed a strong emphasis on developing synergistic strategies for concurrently addressing two primary drivers of biodiversity loss, namely, climate change and invasive alien species (IAS).” ...