Today, representatives from nearly 200 countries are meeting in Kunming, China, to finalise what has been described by some as “the Paris Agreement for Nature”.
The Kunming Declaration and Framework — which will be worked out at the UN’s biodiversity convention, known as COP15 — also aims to put an end to humanity’s disruption of a crucial planetary system.
Where the Paris Agreement seeks to stop climate change, the Kunming Declaration aspires to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
But this isn’t the first decade-long plan to halt the biodiversity crisis. Experts say every single goal set from 2010 to 2020 — through the Aichi Biodiversity Targets — failed.
Regardless, there is hope things will be different this time around, with scientists saying it is too late to fail for another decade.
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