UN appoints new biodiversity chief
OTTAWA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appointed Astrid Schomaker of Germany as the next Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
At the helm of the Secretariat of the world's foremost Multilateral Environmental Agreement on biodiversity, Schomaker will work to translate the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the Biodiversity