ENDS Report
July 13, 2021
The forthcoming UN biodiversity pact could aim to remove at least 10 billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year by 2030, alongside slashing pesticide consumption and eliminating discharges of plastic waste, according to a first draft.
The secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which released the text yesterday following two years’ work, says that its 21 targets and ten key ‘milestones’ would put the world on course to ‘living in harmony with nature’ by 2050. The treaty is set to be finalised by the 196 parties to the convention during talks in the Chinese city of Kunming this October, preceded by online discussions and refinement by expert groups this summer.