Environmental leaders from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday to launch a fund to support global conservation, and the United Nations called for contributions to help meet goals including protection of 30% of land and coastal areas by 2030.
Canada said it would put in 200 million Canadian dollars and the United Kingdom contributed 10 million pounds .
Campaign group Avaaz said the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund needed $200 million from at least three donors by December to be considered operational. — what some have called the "Paris Agreement for Nature", invoking the landmark 2015 United Nations pact to tackle climate change.
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