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"Australia is being urged to take a leadership role at a global summit that
aims to reach what has been described as the nature equivalent of the landmark
Paris agreement on climate change.
Countries will meet in Montreal for the Cop15 biodiversity summit from 7
December to work on a new framework agreement to end biodiversity decline.
Campaigners say if successful it should result in the global destruction of
nature being halted and reversed to the extent that wild areas and habitat for
threatened species start to increase in size between now and 2030.
After earlier rounds of negotiations ended in an impasse, there are concerns an
agreement either won’t be reached or its targets and goals will not be a strong
as hoped.
The Albanese government enters the summit having joined the more than 90
countries to have signed the global leaders’ pledge for nature. It has also
committed to domestic targets of zero new extinctions and protecting 30% of
Australia’s land and sea areas by 2030.
Australia is one of only two megadiverse, developed countries in the world and
the other, the US, is not a signatory to the Convention on biological
diversity.
Campaigners said this put Australia in a unique position as a wealthy,
megadiverse nation that should be committing to ambitious targets and stronger
resourcing of conservation actions."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
