A plan is on the drawing board for the expansion of the Cocos Island Marine National Park and meetings for that and the 30/30 plan have started. Different sectors are light years apart on some sort of agreement on the plan.
Launched in January 2021 at the One Planet Summit for biodiversity, the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, which is co-chaired by Costa Rica, France and the United Kingdom, brings together over 50 governments from across six continents aiming to secure a global agreement to protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and at least 30% of the planet’s ocean by 2030 at the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15, which will be held this year in Kunming, China.
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Fishermen, NGOs and government at odds over Cocos Island and 30/30 Plan