With the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework, governments at all ranges and all of society have a common set of goals to address the biodiversity crisis – for individuals and the planet.
To further address the loss of species, parties at COP15 followed ambitious targets on ecosystem restoration, sustainable use of biodiversity, reductions in harmful contaminants, and inclusion of Native peoples and local areas in conservation efforts.
The framework also calls for a substantial increase in resources from all sources dedicated to nature conservation. The United States has already been making progress towards assisting such efforts in the initial two years of the Biden-Harris Administration, with for the U. S. ’s largest pledge ever to the Global Environment Facility and a 20 percent increase in its spending on biodiversity foreign assistance.
Delegates to the Convention upon Biological Diversity 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) within Montreal adopted a capturing and ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework committing, for the first time, in order to conserving or protecting a minimum of 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030. President Biden committed the us to the same goal throughout his first days within office.
U. S. Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources Monica Medina celebrated the particular framework as a win with regard to nature, biodiversity, and humanity, noting that by conserving at least 30 percent of worldwide lands, fresh water, and sea by 2030 we are acting on what the science demands to address the precipitous decline within biodiversity worldwide.
More than one million species are at risk of extinction – many within decades – and more than ever before in our history. This drop in biodiversity endangers all life on our earth. Scientists in both the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel upon Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that biodiversity is declining in a catastrophic rate and that the particular effective conservation of 30-50 percent of global gets and waters could preserve nature’s ability to sustain individuals and the planet.
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