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by Issam Ahmed and Roland Lloyd Parry Agence France-Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Countries reached a historic deal on Monday to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world’s species and ecosystems, in what the UN chief hailed as “a peace pact with nature.” After the marathon COP 15 biodiversity summit in Montreal ran into the small hours, chair Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu, declared the deal adopted and banged his gavel, sparking loud applause. […]
Montreal, Canada (AFP) by Issam Ahmed and Roland Lloyd Parry Countries gathered at a UN meeting on biodiversity in Montreal were inching closer Sunday to a deal to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and to stump up $30 billion in yearly aid for the developing world to save their ecosystems. Fraught talks to seal a “peace pact for nature” came to a head as summit chair China presented a long-awaited compromise […]
by Benjamin LEGENDRE Agence France-Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Creating a new global fund for biodiversity — a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal — “would take years” and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanisms, Canada’s environment minister said Tuesday. Ottawa’s position reflects the consensus among developed nations on the thorny issue, which has emerged as a key sticking point in negotiations to hammer out a new global pact […]
by Benjamin LEGENDRE Agence France-Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” he said, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in Montreal. Since taking office in 2017, Guterres, a former […]
