‘Paris moment:’ COP15 conference in Montreal seeks hard targets on biodiversity
Diplomats have thrashed out 22 different targets for the Montreal meetings. They include reducing invasive species and pesticide use, cutting food waste, ensuring fair access and sharing of genetic resources and ending government subsidies that harm biodiversity.But federal Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault said four of them would be enough for something Parisian.
“There needs to be a real serious conversation about resource mobilization to help developing countries achieve their targets. Nor, he said, can negotiators pick and choose among those four items. They’re closely linked and dropping one affects the others.“I doubt that we can have an agreement on protecting 30 per cent by 2030 without a robust conversation on resource mobilization,” he said.
The stakes are high. Brackets where consensus isn’t achieved are simply removed and, among the bracketed items, is the crucial 30 per cent by 2030 point.COP 15, which stands for Conference of Parties, will create a small city in itself. Organizers say there are 17,000 registered attendees with 900 reporters accredited to cover their deliberations.
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