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<p>The UK Government is committed to action for pollinators, globally and at home.
We regularly discuss and share information on research, policy and practical activities
with a number of countries, in and beyond Europe, on reported declines and how best
to address them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a member of ‘Promote Pollinators’, an international
coalition of the willing, with 60 members, including countries in Europe and across
the world, committed to action to protect pollinators.</p><p> </p><p>We have also
supported collaborative international research which has underpinned such initiatives,
including a major global review of the status and threats to insect pollinators, published
in 2015 by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.</p><p>
</p><p>The UK continues to play a leading role in the development of an ambitious
post-2020 global framework for biodiversity to be adopted at the 15<sup>th</sup> Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. We will be supporting ambitious
targets to bend the curve on biodiversity loss by 2030 - including in areas which
will help to recover insect populations, such as ecosystem restoration and species
recovery - supported by strengthened reporting and review mechanisms to help facilitate
the implementation of the targets.</p>
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