Trudeau says 120 countries are ready to agree to ’30 by 30′ framework at COP15

By Mia Rabson
The Canadian Press in CTV News
December 8, 2022
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada

Justin Trudeau

MONTREAL – As negotiations officially began at the COP15 UN nature talks in Montreal Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said almost two-thirds of the countries at the table have already agreed to protect 30 per cent of the world’s land and water by the end of the decade. But he said the negotiations with some of the five biggest countries in the world, including Russia and China, pose a diplomatic and political challenge. “International relations are complicated,” said Trudeau on the sidelines of the COP15 negotiations. …The discussions — which have been delayed two years because of COVID-19 — are meant to draft a new biodiversity plan that would halt and restore natural habitats and wild species. …At the moment, Canada is the only one of the five clearly on board the 30-by-30 goal. The U.S. isn’t even a signatory to the biodiversity convention so isn’t officially at the table.

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