Eyes on China to lead the way to stop biodiversity loss
- Kunming will host a top environmental conference next week, with participants taking stock of progress on targets set a decade ago
- ‘Action must be taken in the next 10 years’ to ensure life in the future
At the second part of the conference next northern spring, 195 countries and the European Union are expected to adopt a new global framework to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
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The Aichi targets aim to tackle the underlying causes of biodiversity loss but only six out of the 20 have been “partially achieved”, according to a United Nations report released in September last year. These include preventing invasive species, conserving protected areas, building back fishery stocks and increasing forest cover rate.
CBD executive secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said it was important that the conference spell out what action should be taken at the global, regional and at the national levels to reverse biodiversity loss.
“We have this decade to really take action if we still want to live on this planet for the future, for the planet itself and our own well-being,” Mrema said.
