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- The UN released a draft of its Global Biodiversity Framework.
- The campaign aims to preserve and strengthen natural ecosystems, with quantitative goals for 2030.
- The plan hinges on serious government and business participation.
Leadership at the United Nations (U.N.) is continuing its campaign to safeguard global flora and fauna with the release of the first draft of its Global Biodiversity Framework.
The document outlines how a designated group within the U.N. would work with governments, businesses and Indigenous communities to implement strong policies to protect and stabilize natural ecosystems impacted by human activity.
A major ethos of the framework is to achieve “living in harmony with nature by 2050” as outlined in a prior U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity and its Protocols. Notably, the strategy relies on both a governmental and societal approach to make tangible changes and protect the environment.
“Biodiversity, and the benefits it provides, is fundamental to human well-being and a healthy planet,” the draft begins. “Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to continue or worsen under business-as-usual scenarios.”
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Leading up to the ultimate goals for 2050 are a slew of milestones the working group recommends for 2030. Some of these include increasing ecosystem integrity and sustainability by 15 percent, ensuring at least 30 percent of global land and sea regions are preserved for biodiversity purposes, reducing pesticides by at least 66 percent and eliminating all plastic waste.
Supporting “healthy and resilient” populations of all flora and fauna species is also tantamount, and the group aims to reduce the rate of extinctions by at least tenfold the present rate.
Major outreach campaigns will also be integral to the success of the Global Biodiversity Framework, further underscoring the need for participation from governments and other controlling bodies.
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The proposed framework will be presented in the next meeting of the working group assigned to develop the campaign. After addressing revisions, the proposal will go to the U.N.’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and Subsidiary Body on Implementation.
This overarching framework would contribute and support the other programs within the overarching U.N. Environment Programme, which focuses on conservation and ecosystem restoration for the next decade.
A major push for improved environmental policies and conservation efforts came amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as mass lockdowns reduced emissions to record-lows and prevented human intervention in natural ecosystems.
U.N. leadership recently urged for humans to actively allocate resources to preserving endangered environments. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said 20121 would be “a critical year to reset our relationship with nature.”
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