Meeting in Geneva on UN conference on biodiversity postponed
A meeting for the conference on biodiversity in Geneva has to be postponed. The reason is travel uncertainties due to Omikron.
the essentials in brief
- A meeting at the World Nature Conference has to be postponed.
- Because of Omikron, there are too many uncertainties about the meeting in Geneva in mid-January.
A meeting scheduled for January for the UN Conference on Biodiversity (Cop15) in Geneva has been postponed due to the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The organizers justified this with unsafe travel restrictions.
The meeting for the World Nature Conference should have taken place in Geneva from January 18-22. Instead, March is now being targeted, the organizers announced in a communiqué on Thursday.
The first part of the UN conference was held in Kunming, China, in October. Because of the pandemic, most representatives of the participating countries only take part digitally. The meeting ends with the adoption of a joint declaration calling on the countries, among other things, to recognize the importance of biological diversity for human health and to tighten species.
The aim of the conference is a global species protection agreement
At negotiations in Geneva, the country representatives want to continue working on a global species protection agreement with specific goals by 2030. The aim is to conclude the agreement in a third part of the conference in Kunming next spring.
A previous draft for the global agreement, which refers to the countries to “live in harmony with nature” by 2050. To this end, 21 “targets for urgent measures”
Around 30 percent of the area on land and in the sea will be placed under protection by 2030. Expenditures for species protection are expected to rise to the equivalent of 173 billion euros annually within a decade.
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