NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2023 / The adoption of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework , signed at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) last month, is without doubt a major milestone, committing the world to halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. This encouraging outcome is the result of a hard-won journey, after a two-year delay due to the Covid pandemic. The stakes were (and remain) high, as the biodiversity collapse the word is experiencing is now clearly evidenced. The IPBES Global Assessment Report from 2019 highlighted unprecedented decline in biodiversity resulting from human activities: in just a few decades, over 85% of wetlands and about half of coral reefs have been lost; a third of fish stocks are overexploited; and 32 million hectares of forest in highly biodiverse regions – an area almost twice the size of France – has been destroyed. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres bluntly put it at the start of COP15, "humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction with a million species at risk of disappearing forever." Planting the seeds for restoration The Framework, signed by 196 parties including the EU, sets ambitious goals and targets to start addressing the underlying […]
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