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Billions of pounds of environmentally harmful government subsidies must be redirected to benefit nature, the United Nation’s biodiversity chief has said, before the restart of negotiations on an international agreement to set new targets for protecting nature.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said states must review and adapt support for agriculture, fishing and other industries that are driving the destruction of the natural world, and adopt policies that meet human needs while also conserving the health of the planet.
Each year, governments in large and emerging economies provide $345bn (£247bn) of potentially harmful agricultural subsidies, according to the OECD. A 2019 report found that the public provides more than $1m a minute for the overuse of fertiliser, deforestation to expand agricultural frontiers and cattle production.
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