A cascading extinction of species is inevitable. A model-based study shows that by 2050, the earth will lose up to 10% of its animals and plants on average due to land use and climate change.
With huge turnout at the Fifteenth United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity (COP15), the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership became a reality.
The alliance presented by the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, is considered to be that throttle mechanism that will support the achievement of new goals, goals and global actions by 17 countries to to cope with the loss of biodiversity.
Financial and non-financial resources are made available for this purpose, which make it possible to start implementing the post-2020 framework at an early stage, for which countries such as Germany and Norway have joined with contributions $29 million and $2 million which guarantee implementation for three years.
“This accelerator built by Colombia (NBSAP Accelerator Partnership) enables the member countries of this alliance, which have high ambitions to protect biodiversity and climate change, to quickly formulate ambitious programmes and they can find the resources to implement them,” the minister affirmed Susan Mohammed during the introduction of this mechanism at COP 15.
With this in mind, work will focus on identifying developing countries’ needs and vulnerabilities to biodiversity loss, and the accelerator will provide support with resources and help from donors such as the multilateral bank, the private sector and other stakeholders with potential to invest in these priorities .
In this regard, Sandra Valenzuela, Managing Director of WWF Colombia not only highlighted the country’s leadership in this type of action, but also called this accelerator “an important initiative that aims to achieve this.” connect and encourage investments that benefit communities towards the development of legal, regenerative, nature-based economies and that protect our biodiversity. I welcome this news at a time when the world awaits this COP15 to define an ambitious global biodiversity framework that ensures the well-being of people and nature,” he said.
Among others, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Chile, Germany, the European Union, Gabon, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu are already part of the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership, which is managed by be crucial to implement the post-2020 framework once it is adopted at COP15.
The Colombian Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development attended the COP 15 in Montreal, Canada.
Although the “NBSAP Accelerator Partnership” was an initiative launched as part of the Biodiversity COP15, the Kunming-Montreal Agreement is the final result of several days of negotiations between leaders of different countries around the world, which after two years Belatedly , in the wake of the pandemic, today they are setting new rules of the game to halt biodiversity loss by 2030, a target that requires keeping global warming in check, below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In this line of thought, the agreement contains a holistic panorama of the current situation and in this respect strives for conserve at least 30% of the world’s land area, fresh water and oceansby promoting the rights of the local and indigenous communities that inhabit them.
But not everything is rosy. Although the goals are very clear, WWF has warned of the need to implement them strict measures enabling this to become a reality for everyone 196 countries involvedbecause while reaching a global agreement can mark the roadmap to halting biodiversity loss, the guarantee is provided by actual action by governments, people and corporations.
“The agreement represents an important milestone for nature conservation our natural world, and biodiversity has never been higher on the political and business agenda, but can be undermined by slow implementation and failure to mobilize promised resources. It also lacks a binding mechanism for governments to take more ambitious action if targets are not met. Now we must see the immediate implementation of this agreement, without excuses or delays: nature and all of us who depend on it for our livelihood, economy and well-being have waited too long, it is time for nature to thrive again . Governments chose the right side of history in Montreal, but history will judge us if we don’t keep the promise we made today,” said Marco Lambertini, WWF International Director General.
To this criticism comes the ambiguity about him numerical target to reduce the unsustainable carbon footprint of production and consumption, because in the end the task of translating the agreement into national plans and policies appropriate to the magnitude of the natural crisis rests solely in the hands of governments.
In this respect, the agreement has gray areas, but its signing has been hailed as a big step for biodiversity, as it obliges governments to do so abolish harmful subsidies for nature and forces it to do so increase funding from all sources in 2030, mobilizing at least $200 billion a year and giving nature a chance to recover amid a context of geopolitical division and inequality.
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COP15 agrees to protect at least 30% of the planet to preserve biodiversity