A final session of negotiations opens in Nairobi, Kenya, to prepare the project of global framework aimed at putting an end to the destruction of ecosystems.
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It should have taken place in October 2020 in Kunming, China. After four postponements caused by the COVVI-19 pandemic, the 15
While more than a million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction and three -quarters of land ecosystems have been altered by human activities, COP15 must make it possible to establish a new world framework aimed at Put an end to the erosion of biodiversity by 2030. The issue is major: none of the previous global objectives relating to the period 2010-2020 has been achieved and the pressure on natural environments continues to ‘increase.
For months, the process before achieving this agreement was however plunged into uncertainty. While the COP26 on the climate was able to be held at the end of 2021 in Scotland, China, struggling with the pandemic, had again had to postpone sine die the holding of COP15, aroused the concern and frustration of the stakeholders. In an open letter published on June 17 , a dozen organizations called on governments and the United Nations to set a deadline, the absence of an official date” slowing down progress, the momentum and the interest in this crucial agreement “. Beijing, which retains the presidency of the COP, therefore finally accepted that the conference took place in Montreal, where the seat of the UN Convention on biological diversity is located. “It is the least bad solution for everyone, China did not want to announce new dates that it would not have been able to hold,” said Li Shuo, specialist in environmental policies at Greenpeace China.
Tensions on financing
Gathered in Nairobi until June 26, negotiators must now advance the preparation of the global framework project. The task promises to be arduous, the previous work session, which was held in March in Geneva, having made it possible to achieve only very thin progress. “The delegates will have to simplify the text, clean it, focus on the points of convergence and reach compromises”, summarizes Li Shuo. “It is essential that governments are reappeared, negotiate and produce an almost finalized action plan project that can be adopted later this year,” also explains Marco Lambertini, the general manager of the Global Fund for Nature (WWF).
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