COP15: UN calls for ‘peace pact with nature’ – Saudi Gazette
- Date: 07-Dec-2022
- Source: Saudi Gazette
- Sector:Agriculture
- Country:Saudi Arabia
COP15: UN calls for ‘peace pact with nature’ – Saudi Gazette
MONTREAL — "Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," the head of the United Nations has warned at the start of a high-level nature summit in Canada.
Governments are meeting in Montreal to agree targets to reverse the loss of nature.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said we have a chance to stop the "orgy of destruction" which has put a million species at risk of extinction.
"It's time to forge a peace pact with nature," he added.
Biodiversity is the sum of all living things on the planet and the way they are connected in a complex web of life that we rely upon for food, clean air and water.
In Montreal nearly 200 countries will try to agree on a way to put the world on a path to restoring nature by the end of the decade.
The stakes are high with the COP15 UN summit seen as a chance to do for biodiversity what the Paris agreement has done for the fight against climate change.
The two issues are intertwined, with warnings that a failure to secure a good outcome on protecting nature will make it far harder to fight climate change.
"The idea of biodiversity can be quite complicated for people, but it's basically