An ambitious plan will try to stop biodiversity loss

The plan contains 21 goals to preserve and protect nature and stop the extinction of many species, and has been published on the eve of the historic climate conference to be held in November, COP26, in the United Kingdom. Goals include one to redirect, reuse or eliminate economic incentives that harm or undermine biodiversity worth $ 500 billion a year.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has published the draft of the Global Framework for Nature Management; an evolving plan that provides an agreement to halt the loss of biodiversity and aims to guide and harmonize actions taken around the world to “preserve and protect nature and its essential services”.

The objectives of the Convention and the draft Framework are intended to halt and reverse the ecological destruction of the Earth by the end of the decade. The project includes a plan to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and marine areas, halve the loss of nutrients in the environment, and eliminate plastic waste.

“The draft aims to promote urgent action to be carried out by governments and all of society, including indigenous peoples and local communities,” said the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema.

Reduce the extinction of species

The framework project for humanity to live “in harmony with nature” in 2050 was already approved by the 196 members of the Convention, with different objectives.

One of those objectives is to expand ecosystems by 15% to maintain healthy and resistant populations of all species and reduce the number of species in extension by at least a tenfold. But before, by 2030, it aims to safeguard 90% of the genetic diversity of wild and domesticated species.

Another goal is “to redirect, reuse or eliminate economic incentives that damage or harm biodiversity worth 500,000 million dollars a year.”

Broad objectives

This Framework, which is more than two years in the making, will be fine-tuned during online consultations between governments later this summer before being presented for final text negotiation at a key summit of the 196-party meeting. of the Convention in the Chinese city of Kunming.

“Urgent political action is needed at the global, regional and national levels to transform economic, social and financial models, so that the trends that have aggravated biodiversity loss stabilize by 2030 and allow the recovery of natural ecosystems in the Next 20 years, with net improvements by 2050, “said Maruma Mrema.

*Information published by the United Nations