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On January 13, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations Environment Program presented a draft action plan to be implemented during the next decade to reduce the degradation of biological diversity, the main idea of ​​which is the need to protect at least 30% of the land and 10% of the water. The globe.

China negotiating round

The project will be presented for discussion, and then endorsed during the international negotiations that will be held during the month of October next in China, in the hope that this document will constitute a pressure card to get out of the 2030 stage with concrete results, allowing the countries of the world to receive the fourth and fifth years of this century with satisfaction Large.

The document proposes to reduce all forms and types of environmental pollution that causes the deterioration of biological diversity, such as plastic waste, fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture (agriculture) and other pollutants in half.

This project will be a substitute for the Aichi Agreement that was ratified in Japan in 2010 and whose powers ended at the end of 2019, with the failure of most countries to reach them, especially with regard to the protection of their lands and waters.

The project took into account that the population in 2030 reached about 8.6 billion people and 9.5 billion people in 2050, and this increase is theoretically offset by an increase in the consumption of resources and energy, an equation that most researchers believe is difficult to achieve, due to climate changes and the imminent danger of about one million vital species across the world.

Difficult application to poor countries

Samir Grimas, an expert on climate change at the Institute of Oceanography and Oceanography in Algeria, believes in a statement over the phone with Al Jazeera Net that "the agreement - as a framework - seems at first sight good and ambitious in theory, but its implementation on the ground remains very difficult for low-income countries ".

The new action plan proposes to protect 10% of the planet's water (Pixels)

The spokesman pointed out that putting about 30% of the lands and 10% of the water under protection requires large financial resources and an expert human element, and many countries cannot provide it, but despite this, the international community is required to double efforts more than ever to conserve and diversify the resources of our planet. Threatened bio is very worrying.

Grimas added that the protection of lands by about a third appears to be possible, but protecting the waters of the seas by one-tenth appears difficult, given that most countries have failed during the last ten years to reach this goal and have not made any progress until now.

Warming also benefits

But there is another opinion, for Mr. Aziz Hirish - a researcher in environmental sciences at the University of Science and Technology in the Visitors' Gate in Algeria - who believes that the solutions proposed by the biodiversity experts in the draft agreement have goals that are not in line with the problematic issue.

He added, "Putting about a third of the lands under protection, and reducing the use of pesticides and agricultural chemical fertilizers in half, will negatively affect agricultural and agricultural yields while we are required to increase the product because the population of the globe will increase."

Hirish believes that the problem of biological diversity is not always related to climate change, as experts of the General Secretariat for Biodiversity try to promote it, because the warming of the planet has benefits and there is scientific evidence to confirm this, because the desert of Algeria, for example, was previously green because the average temperature was two degrees high. The way it is today.

"There are about five hundred scientific researchers around the world who are skeptical of the proposals of climate change experts who work especially with international organizations ... Climate changes are not only negative, there are positives, but these experts avoid avoiding mentioning them for reasons that remain incomprehensible," he said in a statement to Al-Jazeera Net by phone. .