COP 15 in Montreal, Canada from 7 to 17 December 2022. Justin Trudeau – Prime Minister said: “Canada stepped up on just a few months’ notice to have this nature COP held; so that together we find solutions. The clock is ticking, and we knew this conference couldn’t wait until some other time,” For our reference the event was originally planned for Kunming, China in 2020 before Covid 19 pandemic disrupted the schedule.
Antonio Guterres – UN Secretary General said “without nature we have nothing, this conference is about an urgent task of making peace because today we are out of harmony with nature. We have conducted a cacophony of chaos played with instruments of destruction deforestation and desertification which are creating wastelands. Our lands, water and air are poisoned by chemicals and pesticides and choked with plastics. Our climate changes into chaotic from heat waves and droughts”.
At the other site, European Commissioner for the environment, elaborates the key goal on how world’s governments to understand and agree the deal of 30 by 30 goal which is equivalent of 1.5 degrees as in Paris Agreement for the protection of 30 percent of land territories and 30 percent of marine and certainly to ensure at least 20 percent of nature restoration efforts to be deployed by 2030.
Elizabeth Mrema – Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity said, “biodiversity is the web of life that connect us all. One million species are threatened with extinction. Therefore, we get that much closer to building shared future for all”
Justin Trudeau – Prime Minister of Canada confirmed: this is an ambitious goal. That is absolutely within reach.
As written by CCNow, journalists need not be at COP15 to tell this story — there are local angles galore. You can spotlight the animal and plant species in trouble in your region and explain why. Talk to local people about why they love certain species of plants and animals, and to activists and scientists about how to protect species through collective measures such as community-based conservation and individual steps like volunteering as a nature observer.
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