Coronavirus: Challenges and Opportunities on the Path Towards Global Cooperation at the UN – PART FOUR
World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit
World Leaders released a Pledge to Reverse Biodiversity Loss by 2030 for Sustainable Development ahead of the Summit on Biodiversity on September 30, 2020. Read the full text of the Leaders Pledge at www.leaderspledgefornature.org .
We, political leaders participating in the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity, representing 64 * countries from all regions and the European Union, have come together today, on 28 September 2020, ahead of the Summit to send a united signal to step up global ambition for biodiversity and to commit to matching our collective ambition for nature, climate and people with the scale of the crisis at hand.
We reaffirm our commitment to international cooperation and multilateralism, based on unity, solidarity and trust among countries, peoples and generations, as the only way for the world to effectively respond to current and future global environmental crises.
Read the full Pledge at www.leaderspledgefornature.org .
World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit
France, Germany and UK among more than 60 countries promising to put wildlife and climate at heart of post-Covid recovery plans
The Guardian Newspaper published a review of the Pledge by Patrick Greenfield in advance of the Summit:
World leaders have pledged to clamp down on pollution, embrace sustainable economic systems and eliminate the dumping of plastic waste in oceans by the middle of the century as part of “meaningful action” to halt the destruction of nature on Earth.
Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern and Boris Johnson are among 64 leaders from five continents warning that humanity is in a state of planetary emergency due to the climate crisis and the rampant destruction of life-sustaining ecosystems. To restore the balance with nature, governments and the European Union have made a 10-point pledge to counteract the damage to systems that underpin human health and wellbeing.