The United Nations Biodiversity Summit saves nature destroyed by man

emission time: 07/12/2022 – 12:04

The United Nations Conference on Biodiversity is held today in Montreal, Canada. Politicians, scientists and activists from nearly 200 countries are meeting for a two-week summit hoping to strike a historic international deal to save nature.

UN Secretary-General Guterres warned during the opening ceremony that the economic development of human society has become a weapon of mass destruction for animals, plants and nature. An agreement to protect global biodiversity in order to achieve the goal of making the world more “natural” by 2030, and time is running out.

The main goal of this summit is that currently only 17% of land and 10% of oceanic areas are protected, but the conference hopes that countries can expand this area of ​​protection to 30% by 2030.

The framework proposed by the meeting of the parties to discuss protecting natural and energy needs for human survival includes cutting pesticide use in half, eliminating plastic waste pollution, and clearing billions of dollars of government subsidies that can damage the environment, and restore degraded ecosystems.

The “United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity” was reached already at the 1995 Earth Summit in Brazil. The new “Global Biodiversity Framework Agreement” which is expected to be reached this time is considered the “Paris Climate Agreement” in the natural field.

Due to the new corona epidemic, the current UN Biodiversity Summit was postponed for 3 years.

In addition, on the issue of ecological environment protection, there are also big differences such as the global gap between North and South. Many developing countries hope that rich and developed countries can provide more funds to promote biodiversity protection.