PARIS: The Delegates from nearly 200 countries will meet in Canada‘s Montreal next week to shape a new global biodiversity pact to protect ecosystems and species from further dismantling and degradation.
In this significant climate change meeting of COP 27 held in Egypt in November this year, the leaders failed to build any developments on decreasing fossil fuels and lowering CO2 emissions.
Observers and researchers are anticipated that the upcoming United Nation biodiversity talks, also known as COP 15, going to be held in Canada, will bring significant deals and policies to save nature and to reverse the degradation humans deliver to nature, forests, water resources, waterways, rivers, oceans and the millions of species and creature living there.
Global economy and biodiversity
Near about 50 percent of the world’s economy depends on nature, but experts warn that as concerns about the sixth era of mass extinction rise, humanity must urgently reconsider its relationship with the natural world.
The head of the United Nation Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, stated at a briefing prior to the talks that “our planet is in crisis,” adding that a global biodiversity agreement was “crucial to ensure that the future of humankind on planet Earth is sustained.”
Due to how terrible humanity has been at this up until this point, one million species are at risk of extinction.
US has not signed up for the UN biodiversity framework
Except for the United States, which has not signed up, most nations will have an official plan for nature until the middle of the century Under the so-called post-2020 biodiversity framework, which was postponed by two years due to the pandemic.
It will include important goals that must be accomplished by 2030.
However, it comes after nations failed to reach even one of the goals set for the previous ten years.
Delegates are struggling with various issues due to new regulations that touch on important economic sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, and fishing, covering everything from intellectual property to pollution and pesticides.
Currently, only two of the new deal’s 22 targets have been met.
