After four years of negotiations, delays and frantic last-minute talks, nearly 200 countries – including Australia – have agreed on a landmark pact observers hope will stop the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems and species. But will it work?
After four years of negotiations, pandemic-induced delays and frantic last-minute talks, nearly 200 countries including Australia – though notably not the US – have agreed on athat observers hope will prevent the ongoing destruction of the Earth’s precious ecosystems and species.
Some welcomed the new Kunming-Montreal agreement, though not legally binding, as nature’s equivalent of the Paris climate agreement. “It was inspiring to see first-hand how Indigenous knowledge and continuous living culture was so prominent in Montreal through the advocacy of Indigenous peoples,” said Country Needs People board director Rarrtjiwuy Melanie Herdman, who travelled to the meeting in Canada.
“This to me is a real concern – we can’t wait another 28 years to stop extinctions because we’re going to have a very different planet by that stage,” said Wintle.Financing was one of the most contentious issues, with 70 African, South American and Asian countries walking out of negotiations at one point.
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