UN publishes first draft of Paris Agreement-style global treaty for tackling biodiversity loss
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Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has published the first draft of a global agreement for tackling biodiversity loss, setting out a string of ambitious new targets for 2030 and 2050 to be negotiated by world leaders at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China.
Among the 2030 targets in the draft framework published yesterday are goals for 30 per cent of land and sea to be protected, for pollution from all sources to be reduced to levels that are not harmful to biodiversity, for pesticide use to be slashed by two thirds, for nutrient run off to be halved, and for plastic pollution eliminated.
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Giant leap for nature? All eyes on China to land new global pact
A worker lifts a tree from the ground at the Toudunying state-owned commercial forest estate in a village near the edge of the Gobi Desert, on the outskirts of Wuwei, Gansu province, China, Apr 16, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
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KUALA LUMPUR: Securing an ambitious new global pact to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit later this year will require stronger political leadership from host nation China, officials and observers have warned.
About 195 countries are expected to agree the text of a new treaty to safeguard the planet s plants, animals and ecosystems, similar to the Paris climate accord, at UN talks scheduled for October in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.
New global framework to manage nature through 2030
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Montreal, July 13 : The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat has released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.
The framework includes 21 targets for 2030 that call for, among other things, at least 30 per cent of land and sea areas global, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and its contributions to people, conserved through effective, equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.
Jul 13, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – Securing an ambitious new global pact to protect nature at a U.N. biodiversity summit later this year will require stronger political leadership from host nation China, officials and observers have warned.
About 195 countries are expected to agree the text of a new treaty to safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and ecosystems, similar to the Paris climate accord, at U.N. talks scheduled for October in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.
But the prospects of sealing a deal at the COP15 summit already postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic are dwindling unless in-person talks can happen, U.N. officials say.
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