Paris (AFP) – Lobbyists for pesticide and fertiliser producers are pushing “behind the scenes” against stronger protection for species and ecosystems at the COP15 biodiversity conference, research showed Thursday. Delegates in Montreal for the meeting, which started this week and runs until December 19, aim to finalise a new framework for “living in harmony with nature”, with key goals to preserve Earth’s forests, oceans and species. InfluenceMap, a think tank that monitors communications by companies and industry associations, said it “tracked lobbying between 2020 and 2022 that has sought to…