To: Steve Read, Secretary of State for DEFRA
Engaging and taking seriously Targets 2 and 3 of the UNCBD COP15
In December 2022, a little known resolution was made and endorsed by the vast majority of the leaders of the U.N. to agree, endorse and ratify a resolution at the end of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Montreal to make various Targets at COP 15. The two most significant are:
Target 2 is to rehabilitate at least 30% of our degraded photosynthetic landscapes to a state of nature that was originally evolved. This represents at least 97% of our current landscapes, according to the Intergovernmental Scientific Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, are degraded.
Target 3 is to provide actual protection of nature and natural evolutionary and ecological processes for our biodiversity to 30% of both our land and aquaspheres of our biosphere.
Target 2 is to rehabilitate at least 30% of our degraded photosynthetic landscapes to a state of nature that was originally evolved. This represents at least 97% of our current landscapes, according to the Intergovernmental Scientific Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, are degraded.
Target 3 is to provide actual protection of nature and natural evolutionary and ecological processes for our biodiversity to 30% of both our land and aquaspheres of our biosphere.
Why is this important?
Biodiversity life is in total peril. The ecological processes which affect their distribution and abundance is eroding their existence on a scale which our children will be bereft within a generation. Over 70% of all vertebrate species have had their populations drop by 96% of their evolutionary populations; greater that 50% of invertebrates have had such losses globally.
Our current economic destructive framework is the cause and only by imposing these Targets as aforementioned can we halt and reverse such extermination. We will be our own Nemesis if we do not pressurise and ensure these Targets are enacted.
Our current economic destructive framework is the cause and only by imposing these Targets as aforementioned can we halt and reverse such extermination. We will be our own Nemesis if we do not pressurise and ensure these Targets are enacted.
