Countries’ delegates participating in the COP15 conference in Montreal have reached a deal on Dec. 19 to strengthen the protection of the world’s biodiversity, including the aim to protect at least 30 percent of land and sea and by pledging of billions of dollars.
The deal reached by consensus is dubbed the Kunming-Montreal Global Diversity Framework based on the host cities in China and Canada.
It includes four goals and 23 targets, along with the cutting of billions in subsidies deemed “harmful to biodiversity.”
“The adoption of this Framework and the associated package of ambitious targets, goals and financing represents but a first step in resetting our relationship with the natural world,” said Inger Andersen, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of the UN Environment Programme in a statement….