The global coalition of organizations and companies Business for Nature has launched a consultation open until November 13 to demand that governments adopt policies to reverse the loss of nature over the last ten years. The idea is to create a document equivalent to the Paris Climate Agreement, but focused on nature, with global objectives, goals and policy guidelines for the next three decades to be presented early next year, before the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in May 2021, in Kunming, China. It is expected that at the CBD COP-15, governments will adopt a new Post-2020 Global Framework.
According to data from the coalition, nature is at a critical point. The IPBES Global Report 2019 warns that around 75% of the Earth’s surface has been significantly altered by human actions and almost 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Economies are also under threat, because more than half of the world’s total GDP – US$ 44 trillion – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services.
At the UN Biodiversity Summit in September 2020, the list of signatories to the Call to Action, called Nature is everyone's business, was released. More than 600 companies with revenues of US$1.4 trillion have already signed up and are calling on governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss this decade. To sign up, click here.
