By Chris Lang In July 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity published the first draft of the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The UN explains that the aim is to create a “Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss, to guide actions worldwide that ‘preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people’”. The draft…
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Fishing communities in Costa Rica oppose the 30×30 conservation target
Costa Rica is co-chair of the Coalition pushing the 30×30 conservation target. Fishing communities in Costa Rica are opposed to the 30×30 target.
CBD Alliance urges rejection of draft Global Biodiversity Framework, including 30% protection target: “Major step backwards in global biodiversity policy”
CBD Alliance letter opposing the Zero Draft Global Biodiversity Framework and 30×30.
Open letter to the lead authors of ‘Protecting 30% of the Planet for Nature’: “This paper reads to us like a proposal for a new model of colonialism”
An open letter, signed by authors from multiple institutions, highlights the problems with the working paper, “Protecting 30% of the planet for nature”.
Open letter to the Convention on Biodiversity: 30% target for protected areas is counterproductive, and will lead to evictions and displacement of Indigenous Peoples
By Chris Lang One of the key proposals for the next Convention on Biodiversity meeting is to increase the area of the planet covered by protected areas to 30% by 2030. The meeting was planned for October 2020, but was postponed because of the coronavirus. It is now planned for May 2021, in Kunming, China….