Architects of the Paris climate agreement and NGOs insist on the importance of achieving an ambitious agreement in December in Canada, to stop the degradation of ecosystems.
by Perrine Mouterde
The fight against global warming also involves the protection of nature. Since the COP27 on the climate, which continues in Charm El-Cheikh in Egypt, the calls to make COP15 on biodiversity a “priority” are multiplying from NGOs, scientists and other personalities. This other world conference, which will open in less than three weeks in Montreal, Canada, is crucial for the future of the planet: a new global framework must be adopted to try to end, by 2030, to the destruction of ecosystems.
Wednesday, November 16, several of the architects of the Paris agreement , by which the States were committed in 2015 to limit warming below the 2 ° C bar , urged managers to “intensify their actions to deal with the accelerated loss of nature”, by concluding “an ambitious and transformer agreement” during the COP15 biodiversity. “There is no way to limit warming to 1.5 ° C without acting to protect and restore nature,” recall the president of COP21, Laurent Fabius, that of COP20, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, The former executive secretary of the framework convention on climate change Christiana Figueres and the former French ambassador for the climate Laurence Tubiana.
According to these personalities, “bold leadership” is necessary to conclude, in Montreal, a “twin agreement from that of Paris”. However, this political momentum has so far been lacking in the negotiation process. Some 350 actors in civil society , including representatives of youth associations, indigenous peoples, environmental organizations or business coalitions, declared themselves on Wednesday “deeply concerned about The lack of ambition of governments “concerning the draft agreement aimed at stopping the dramatic loss of biodiversity, and called them to make COP15” a priority “.
The Campaign for Nature organization is particularly concerned about the fact that no head of state should be present in Canada, while they were more than 120 at the opening of COP27. The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, who chairs this world conference, will not go to Montreal and officially invited ministers to participate. Tuesday, thirteen old chiefs ‘State and government asked the UN to invite the highest world leaders to go to Canada. “The presence of heads of government on the spot is essential to raise this crisis at the level it deserves,” assure the former leaders of Ethiopia, Colombia, Argentina or the Philippines.
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