Secretary-General of the United Nations: The collapse of the global ecosystem will hit developing countries hard
Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, October 12 (Reporter Zhang Jiawei and Liu Wanli) UN Secretary-General Guterres said on the 12th that the collapse of the global ecosystem will severely hit developing countries. The fifteenth convention of the Convention on Biological Diversity is being held in Kunming. The Party Conference (COP15) is an opportunity for the "truce" between mankind and nature.
Guterres warned in a video speech at the summit of the leaders of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity that two centuries of human activities that destroy nature have caused a biosphere disaster.
The current rate of species extinction is tens to hundreds of times the average of the past 10 million years, and it is still accelerating.
Over a million species of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates are at risk, and many of these species will become extinct within a few decades.
By 2030, the collapse of the global ecosystem may cause nearly $3 trillion in losses each year, and the most affected will be some of the poorest and most indebted countries.
Guterres expressed his gratitude to China for convening and hosting the Kunming Conference to promote the work related to the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework".
He said that this framework should form a synergy with the Paris Agreement to deal with climate change and other multilateral agreements on forest conservation, desertification governance, and marine protection, and push the relationship between man and nature back on track.
This conference should work with the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in the UK to lay the foundation for a "permanent peace agreement" between mankind and nature.
Guterres also made five suggestions on the formulation of the framework: supporting the legal rights of all people in the world to enjoy a healthy environment; supporting national policies and plans aimed at solving the problem of biodiversity loss; promoting the transformation of national and global accounting systems to reflect the economy The real impact of activities on nature and climate; provide a package of support to developing countries, including financial resources and technology transfer; end unreasonable subsidies for agriculture and other fields, and transfer relevant funds to the field of ecological environment restoration.