Short Wave Can COP 15 Save Our Planet's Biodiversity?
Dec 22, 2022
Giuliana Viglione, an editor at Carbon Brief specializing in food, land, and nature, shares her insights from the recent UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal. She highlights the urgent goals set for 2030 aimed at curbing biodiversity loss. Viglione discusses the contrast in media coverage between COP15 and COP27 and reflects on the failures of past targets. With cautious optimism, she elaborates on the new biodiversity agreement and the pressing need for effective monitoring to ensure nations fulfill their environmental commitments.
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Why Biodiversity Gets Less Attention
- Biodiversity loss gets less attention than climate change because it's less tangible.
- The lack of world leader presence diminishes media coverage, creating a cycle of neglect.
Aichi Biodiversity Targets: A Missed Opportunity
- The 2010 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set at COP10, aimed to address habitat loss, sustainable resource use, and climate change impacts.
- Despite some individual nation successes, the world collectively failed to meet any of these targets.
COP15: A New Hope for Biodiversity
- COP15 aimed to establish a new framework for halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030.
- This ambitious goal recognizes the critical importance of biodiversity for the planet's future.