The new agreement will apply until 2030. After two weeks of intense negotiations, the countries of the world adopted an agreement that will stop and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. – Nature finally got its Paris moment! Although the nature agreement is of course not perfect, it is much better than we have dared to hope for, says Ingrid Rostad, nature advisor at the Forum for Development and the Environment. – A signal of hope, says Secretary General of the WWF World Wildlife Fund, Karoline Andaur. The agreement was passed despite the Congo stating that it could not support the agreement. “30 within 30” One of the most important points in the negotiations on the nature agreement has been the point about “30 within 30”. In other words, at least 30 percent of sea and land areas must be under conservation or protection by 2030. At the summit, they agreed on this point. – In 150 years, the world has managed to preserve 15% of the land, and now this will double in seven years. The task before us is very demanding, but necessary, says Anders Haug Larsen of the Rain Forest Fund. Norway has been among the champions of getting this in place in the agreement. – In Montreal, we will work to ensure that at least 30 per cent of the earth’s surface is well protected. The world must stand together for a goal of a nature-positive future, Climate and Environment Minister Espen Bart Eide has previously stated. The closing plenary meeting started more than seven hours behind schedule and it was a weary assembly that agreed today. A delegate takes a quick nap before the closing plenary meeting of the nature summit started. Photo: ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP Urges rich countries to increase aid The question of the developing countries’ demands for financial support for a new fund for biological diversity has been one of the most difficult at the nature summit in Montreal. That is what NTB writes. A number of developing countries have previously been clear that they need insurance for financing in order to be able to commit to the agreement. In a draft that was made available, rich countries were encouraged to increase financial aid to poor countries by almost NOK 200 billion annually by 2025. The text also suggested that this should be further increased to almost NOK 300 billion by 2030, writes AFP. Today, around 100 billion is used annually. – There is great concern about how we will manage to close the funding gap, and those who have the most must also contribute the most. We cannot afford not to deliver on the financing of this agreement, concludes Rostad. It is in the developing countries that you find the greatest biological diversity in the world. But many of them point out that the world’s rich countries have become rich by exploiting the developing countries’ natural resources. They therefore demand to be paid for not exploiting them further for the sake of biological diversity. The researchers warn that around one million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction due to pollution and the destruction of natural areas. Nature’s gene bank On Saturday, Norway and Chile submitted a proposal for a solution to the negotiation track Norway was set to lead. The proposed solution is that continued free access to nature’s gene bank for everyone is ensured by placing a “fee” on products that are developed based on data from this gene bank. The income from this fee goes to a fund that will be used to preserve and restore nature in poor countries. The nature summit is referred to as COP15 and is formally the second part of the 15th meeting of the parties for the countries that have signed the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The conference was originally supposed to be held in China, but was postponed several times due to the corona pandemic.
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