Nature Does Not Respect Borders: UN Biodiversity Chief
A new analysis says oil, gas and mining concessions overlap protected areas as countries face a $700 billion annual funding shortfall.
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Nature does not respect borders: UN biodiversity chief
"I don't want to be naive," said Schomaker of the headwinds surrounding the biennial negotiations on protecting the natural world that start on October 19 in Yerevan, Armenia. "Clearly, geopolitics enter also the debate on biodiversity," the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) told AFP in English from Montreal. Nearly 200 nations must nevertheless find a way forward at the Yerevan summit after falling behind on th…
Protection That Holds: Keeping Nature Safe From Extraction
When governments gather in Yerevan this month for the 17th UN Convention on Biological Diversity, they will weigh a promise nearly 200 countries adopted six years ago: to effectively conserve at least 30 percent of land, inland waters, and sea by 2030. Achieving the ambitious 30×30 target is essential to sustaining the systems humanity relies […]
The COP17 of Biodiversity reviews 30x30 in Yerevan: oil, gas and mining concessions overlap with more than 100 million protected hectares.The entry The COP17 of Biodiversity reviews in Yerevan target 30×30 with only 17% protected land aparece primero en Moncloa.
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