COP15: Countries must overcome ‘trust deficit,’ UN official says at biodiversity talks
She says every country has to do everything it can to overcome that “trust deficit” because allowing nature to be destroyed at current rates will lead to the downfall of humanity.
“The ambitions for biodiversity are about all of us,” Mohammed said. “They are commitments that we all need to take because it affects us as humanity. If we don’t take care of our biodiversity, there will be no us.” The summit in Montreal is the 15th meeting of the parties to the UN biodiversity convention and is intended to be the final meeting to agree to a new global biodiversity framework that seeks to end the destruction of ecosystems and wild species and begin to restore them.The last framework, negotiated in 2010, failed in large part because of a lack of financing and accountability, with few measurable targets to monitor progress.
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