- We finally managed to agree on a global framework to guide our efforts,” said the vice-president
- This outline of measures will update the Aichi Protocol with ambitious targets for 2030 that will facilitate the achievement of the European vision of “Living in harmony with nature” by mid-century
December 19, 2022- The Vice-President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has positively assessed the agreement reached in the early hours of 19 December at the Plenary of the XV Conference of the Parties of the United Nations (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Montreal (Canada). A commitment composed of six fundamental documents, relating to: the Global Biodiversity Framework; the resource mobilization strategy; benefit-sharing from the use of digital genetic resource sequence information (DSI); the monitoring framework; the mechanism for follow-up, reporting and review; and the decision on capacity building. This commitment will make it possible to achieve the effective protection and management for the conservation of 30% of the land and marine surface by 2030. “We have finally managed to agree on a global framework to guide our efforts to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity and achieve a world with a positive nature by 2030,” said the Vice-President, who participated in the meeting as European negotiator of the Global Framework. Ribera recalled that Spain is among the delegations that has been defending a high level of ambition. Among the main achievements achieved within the Global Framework, the significant reduction in the risk of species extinctions and the restoration of 30% of the area of degraded ecosystems by 2030 stand out. On the other hand, the agreement includes biodiversity-friendly spatial planning throughout the territory and the reduction of pollution, including the reduction of the risk of highly hazardous pesticides by at least half, as well as the reduction of nutrient loss to the environment, also by half; Another of the commitments of the Global Framework for 2030 is to eliminate, minimise and reduce the impacts derived from invasive alien species, through the identification and management of the entry routes of non-native species, reducing the introduction and establishment rates of these species by at least half. It is also committed to minimizing the impact of climate change on biodiversity and promoting adaptation, mitigation, and disaster risk reduction through nature-based solutions. The full integration of biodiversity into sectoral policies, especially in sectors with the greatest impact on biodiversity such as agriculture, fisheries, forest management and aquaculture, is another highlight of the agreement.
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUNDING
Added to this is the mobilization of resources from all sources, domestic and international, public and private, for the financing necessary for the implementation of the global framework. Also the objective of identifying, eliminating and reversing incentives and subsidies harmful to biodiversity, and the establishment of a new mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from the use of digital sequence information derived from genetic resources. This outline of measures will update the Aichi Protocol with ambitious targets for 2030 that will facilitate the achievement of the European vision of “Living in harmony with nature” by mid-century. COP15, which opened and first took place in October 2021, was held from 7 to 19 December 2022 under Chinese chairmanship, and also served as the X Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP 10) and the IV Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (COP/MOP 4).
