Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity — can the COP15 summit deliver?

Subject :Environment

CoP15 to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)-

Originally had to take place in Kunming, China, in October 2020, but delayed due to covid-19 pandemic.
Currently taking place in Montreal, Canada.
Theme- Building a shared future for all life on Earth
Goal-
- Negotiating this decade’s biodiversity targets and a new global framework for biodiversity protection.
- The focus is expected to be on 30×30, a push to protect 30% of land and sea for nature by the end of this decade.
- Emphasising the Human right to a healthy environment.
- Push to require mandatory nature disclosures from all large businesses and financial institutions as a measure of their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.

About 30X30 target-

The 30X30 target was first floated in 2019 in an article AGlobal Deal for Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets published in Science Advances.
This then became the global call of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People in 2020 and as of October 2022, more than 100 countries are part of it.
Countries have to commit to protecting 30 per cent of the land and sea by 2030 under this goal.

Newzealand’s biodiversity record-

New Zealand’s ambitious biodiversity strategy, Te Mana o teTaiao, sets out a blueprint for the protection and restoration of our biodiversity, as well as for its sustainable use. But despite such ambition, New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity remains in peril.
Regarding 30×30, more than a third of Aotearoa’s land area (Aotearoa is the current Māori-language name for New Zealand) is already under legal protection for conservation purposes. But only 10% of the country’s original wetlands remain, and only 7% of its territorial sea is protected.