UN Chief Urges Nations to End 'War on Nature'
The report says current commitments would leave only 26% of land and 12% of oceans protected by 2030, UN figures show.
- On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released a report warning that 2030 biodiversity goals are unlikely to be met, ahead of next week's COP17 negotiations in Yerevan, Armenia.
- Despite nearly 90 per cent of countries setting national targets, a massive financial gap persists: roughly $30 goes toward nature-degrading activities for every $1 invested in protection, according to UN figures.
- Current commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework fall far short of the 30 per cent conservation goal for Earth's land and oceans; projections show only 26 per cent of land and 12 per cent of ocean areas will receive protection.
- Sue Lieberman from the Wildlife Conservation Society warned that ecosystems are collapsing, stating 'governments and all stakeholders must see that investing in nature is not a luxury, it is the very key to our survival.'
- Guterres declared at the report's launch that the 'war on nature has not yet ended,' calling for governments to scrap harmful subsidies and integrate biodiversity into every policy decision and budget.
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The world is experiencing "a gap between ambition and action" in the field of nature protection, warned António Guterres just before COP17 in Armenia.
António Guterres, executive director of the United Nations, said today that "the stríðinu gegen nátúrónni sé enn nátúrnni sé enn ovéd" when he presented a report that shows that the world's riches are not meeting their commitments to biological diversity. The countries of the world will go over achievements and obstacles towards the goal of stopping the destruction of nature by 2030 when they come together in Armenia in...
The world remains off the road to meet the goals it has committed to safeguarding biodiversity by 2030. Countries remain far from the goal of protecting 30% of the land and oceans, concludes the first global assessment of the action taken by the parties that have committed to the Kunming-Montreal agreement
A few days before the UN Biodiversity Conference COP17, UN Secretary-General António Guterres lamented the "gap between claim and reality" in protecting nature. "Less than half of the world's states are on good course with their own national biodiversity goals, stated Guterres on Thursday in Yerevan. COP17 is beginning to start in the Armenian capital early this week. World-wide states did not meet their obligations to protect marine and land ar…
UN chief urges nations to end 'war on nature'
Nations will assess progress and pitfalls toward a 2030 goal to stop the destruction of nature when they meet in Armenia next week for the UN biodiversity negotiations. Nearly 200 countries joined the landmark "Paris Agreement for Nature" four years ago but have been slow to act on its objectives. The pact laid out 23 targets for halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, including reducing pollution, protecting threatened species and conserving…
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