Click a picture to enhance it. Blue text = a clickable link Widespread relief as the gavel comes down at the end of Cop 15For the third week in a row I am focussed on Montreal. Well not really on Montreal. I'm focussed on Cop15, the Biodiversity Summit. But whereas my writing for the first two weeks was made nervous by anxiety, this time my writing is eased with relief and even enlived by elation. Yes! Really! AchievementI'm relieved and even elated because the Conference concluded early on Monday with a landmark agreement 'to protect 30 per cent of the planet’s lands, coastal areas and inland waters by the end of the decade. Moreover, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), as it is now known, also aims to cut food waste in half.' Relief and even mild elationShould I really have relief and elation – even mild elation? Yes I think so. To get that level of agreement from 200 countries is a mighty feat, given the bickering, disagreement and reluctance to spend money exhibited especially by rich countries. Yes, I know it's all words on paper and implementing the clauses on a country by country basis is a struggle that is just beginning. But it is a beginning! Further
Among the global targets for 2030 are these:
And here are some more targets
Added togetherAdded together, all those resolutions lead in theory to massive change. I just hope that power brokers and politicians wiil take biodiversity loss seriously enough to act, to push, to achieve. They will if the general populace (the you and me) shout loudly enough in their ears. We will only shout loudly enough if we are totally convinced that safe guarding biodiverse species is essential to life. World Wildlife Fund, earlier in 2022, produced a video attempting to explain that very essentiality. So I'm concluding this post by offering it as a prompt to act, in support of the vital agreement our countries have reached. Can you share my relief and even a measure of my elation? I hope so! □ ########## A message.
Whatever you think about Christmas, I hope you have a happy time the next few days and over the holiday period whether you are in the cold north, or, like me, in the warm south. John McInnes Friday 23 December 2022
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