Almost 200 nations agreed to conserve 30% of the Earth’s surface for nature by 2030 at the United Nations’ COP15 biodiversity summit. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from AP, BBCNews and DailyMail: COP15 Biodiversity2022
Representatives from almost 200 nations agreed to set a target of conserving 30% of the Earth’s surface for nature by 2030 at theinvesting at least $200 billion per year from both public and private sources, eliminating at least $500 billion per year in subsidies harmful to biodiversity, restoring 30% of degraded ecosystems, reducing risk from pesticides by at least 50%, and reducing the rate of introduction and establishment of invasive alien species by at least 50%.
The countries also set a goal of stopping the extinction of known species and reducing the extinction risk of all species to 10% of current levels. While the agreement is not a guarantee that targets will be met, it represents a major commitment, with some officials comparing it to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. However, the United States could not join the agreement because it is not a party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which congressional Republicans have blocked.
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