Next International Biodiversity Day, the UN promotes the implementation of measures in the Kunming-Montreal World Framework for Biological Diversity to be fulfilled by 2030.
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O Kunming-Montreal World Framework for Biological Diversity (Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – GBF) was adopted during the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15 🇬🇧), after a 4-year consultation and negotiation process. This historical Framework, which supports the realization of Sustainable Development Goals, sets out an ambitious path to achieving the global vision of a world living in harmony with nature by 2050. Among the key elements of the Framework are 4 targets for 2050 and 23 targets for 2030. (The Convention on Biological Diversity*)
Food waste and investments
In a message, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, spoke of the moment dedicated to reflecting on the human relationship with the “system that supports the life of humanity”. ⤵️
Guterres lists resources from the air we breathe, the food we consume, to the energy we feed and medicines that heal, lives completely depend on healthy ecosystems. He warned about actions that devastate every place on the planet and 1 million species at risk of extinction with the degradation of habitats, the pollution growing and worsening climate crisis.
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Sustainability of production and consumption patterns
Guterres asks for the end of what he calls the war against nature. To fulfill the agreement, he defends more sustainable production and consumption patterns and the channeling of subsidies from actions that destroy nature towards sustainable solutions.
Among the treaty's proposals are: reducing food waste by half and investing at least US$200 billion per year in strategies that benefit the biodiversity in the current decade.
According to the UN, if nothing changes, the biodiversity and ecosystems can beprometaken as well as progress towards up to 80% of the targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Civil society
António Guterres argues that these actions require that the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities are recognized as they are “the strongest guardians of our world’s biodiversity.”
The secretary-general asks governments and companies to pressure them to tomem stronger and faster measures against the loss of biodiversity and climate crisis, working with civil society for a sustainable future for all.
According to the UN, Human actions have generated significant changes in 75% of the terrestrial environment and around 66% of the marine environment. 😔
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