‘Half Landen has no plans to comply with nature conservation agreements’

More than half of the countries that have agreed to protect nature in 2022, have not yet made any plans to meet that appointment. This is apparent from one analysis who published the British think tank Carbon letter on Monday.

At the end of 2022, representatives from 196 countries signed the so -called Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Among other things, the countries agreed that by 2030 at least 30 percent of the earth’s surface – land and sea – must be a protected nature area.

But of the 137 countries that have so far submitted plans for the preservation of that nature, less than half (49 percent) also committed themselves to the goal of 30 percent, Writes Carbon letter.

The Netherlands did not yet have any plans

The group that does not comply with the set goal are rich countries such as Norway and Switzerland. But large, natural countries such as Russia, Peru, Mexico and Indonesia also did not yet record on the goal of 30 percent. Canada, China, India and the European Union did that.

The countries that are not attached to the 30 percent goal in 2030 ”, together account for around 34 percent of the total land surface, according to Carbon Letter.

Despite the deadline in October 2024, 61 countries, including the Netherlands and the United States, did not have any plans at all. State Secretary Chris Jansen (Environment, PVV) said That month that the government wants to hand in the plans in the second quarter of 2025.

At the end of December, international scientists wrote in two leading UN reports that the current form of nature conservation is insufficient. To combat the loss of global biodiversity, according to the nearly 150 authors, major economic and social changes are needed.

This week the countries that made the 30 percent appointment in 2022 meet again – from Tuesday to Friday, this time in Rome. After the negotiators were not even in Colombia in the past November about the financing of nature conservation, the hope is that people will now be able to conclude an agreement.

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