There are signs of agreement on the goal of protecting 30 percent of the world. The negotiating parties are also approaching each other on financing issues. Will an agreement be strong enough to effectively protect nature?
A week after the start of the UN Biodiversity Conference, there is great progress at the World Conference on Nature in Montréal. Halfway through negotiations on a global nature conservation agreement, the chief negotiator for what is arguably the most important environmental treaty of the decade, Basile van Havre, expresses his optimism about the chances of success. There is no longer a state that wants to block an agreement, said van Havre in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “I am very confident that we will get an agreement,” he says with relief.