What You Need to Know about the UN Biodiversity Conference
A month ago, representatives of three political coalitions – the Leaders Pledge for Nature, High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People and Global Ocean Alliance – endorsed by 116 countries joined forces at the CBD High-Level Segment pre-COP hosted by the Government of Colombia.
They reaffirmed the urgency of reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 to address the interdependent crises of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and climate change and achieve sustainable development.
What is at hand now for governments is to ensure that the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework negotiations produce an outcome that matches this ambition! I congratulate and thank the government of China for their hard work and determination to make this meeting happen.
Hosting the UN Biodiversity Conference under challenging commitments is a clear demonstration of the Government of China’s global leadership on biodiversity.
