Nature conservation and environmental organizations describe the preliminary negotiations for a new world nature agreement as a flop. The organizers also admit: There is still a lot of work to be done.
After the conclusion of the preliminary negotiations for a global agreement to preserve biological diversity, nature conservation and environmental organizations have expressed dissatisfaction with the result.
Hardly any progress had been made, said Greenpeace and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), among others, at the end of the week-long UN conference on a new world agreement on nature in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
The preparatory conference left the most important questions unanswered, said Thilo Maack, Biodiversity Coordinator at Greenpeace Germany. “Nairobi was a flop. (…) There is a huge gap between the grandiose rhetoric for the protection of nature and the status of the negotiating text,” said Maack. A concrete timetable for implementation and a decision to provide sufficient resources and funding are urgently needed.
WWF: “Fatal Standstill”
The WWF spoke of a “fatal standstill” in the negotiations. There is still a lack of ambitious commitments from rich countries in the Global North, including Germany, for international funding to support poorer countries in the Global South, said Florian Titze, an international policy expert at WWF Germany.
Actually, the meeting should form a basis for an ambitious treaty of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in December in Montreal, Canada. The American National Geographic Society has warned that the lack of progress is now jeopardizing the outcome of the entire process. «The countries have not only made no progress. In some cases, new disagreements threaten to tip the process in the opposite direction.”
According to the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), governments have made “good progress” and reached consensus on several goals. At the end of the conference, the delegates presented a global plan to slow down the steady loss of biodiversity.
“These efforts are significant, although we recognize that the text requires additional work,” said CBD Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema. She called on the parties to “deal intensively with the text, to listen to each other and to seek a consensus” over the next few months. A significant amount of work is required to advance the text to adoption in Montreal in December.
Originally planned in China, the 15th World Summit on Nature will take place in Montreal from December 5th to 17th. The decision to relocate was made in view of the ongoing pandemic situation in China.
Source: Stern
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