Status: 12/19/2022 10:23 a.m
At the World Conservation Summit, the participants agreed on a new UN nature conservation agreement. Around 200 countries have set themselves the goal of protecting at least 30 percent of land and sea areas by 2030.
After around two weeks of negotiations, the participants at the World Nature Summit in Montreal, Canada, have agreed on a final declaration. Among other things, around 200 countries set themselves the goal of protecting at least 30 percent of the world’s land and sea areas by 2030. They also want to spend more money on protecting biodiversity.
After the adoption, loud cheers broke out in the plenary session, which had previously been repeatedly postponed. Organizers, scientists and representatives of non-governmental organizations insisted that a landmark global agreement on species protection could still be adopted at the meeting.
The 15th World Summit on Nature – which also goes by the abbreviation COP15 – was originally supposed to take place in China in 2020, but was then postponed and split up due to the ongoing pandemic situation there. The first part of the negotiations took place last October, mainly online, in Kunming, China.