Latest draft includes ‘30-by-30′ target that Canada has pushed for, and the dollar amounts to be provided to developing countries
in Montreal, were approaching a historic decision late Sunday night over whether to adopt a new global agreement to protect nature.
But while the current form of the agreement includes ambitious targets, scientists and environmental advocates have said the proposal does not go far enough to put the planet on a positive course. Dr. Larigauderie added that some of the specific targets in the draft were stronger than she expected to see. Among them is the target of cutting the use of pesticides in half by 2030 in order to protect insect species that are vital for the pollination of food crops and other plants.
Efforts to hammer out a clean draft of the global framework in a working group session before formal talks began proved fruitless. Instead, delegates were handed different versions of the text with hundreds of brackets around words and phrases denoting points of disagreement. Many of those brackets were still in place by the weekend when China presented its version as the best option for consensus.
Targets to close the gap by reducing government subsidies that promote nature loss by at least US$500-billion annually and increasing expenditures by at least US$200-billion annually;
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