Signal Many countries committed to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030

Summary

The report states that many countries have committed to protecting 30 percent of land and sea by 2030. The target was agreed at the fifteenth conference of the parties to the biodiversity convention and included in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The report expects the pledge to help protect large, resilient natural areas so that biodiversity can be conserved and restored. As a result, numerous initiatives around the world seeking protected area status have gained momentum. The report presents this as one response to the unprecedented decline of global biodiversity. In the same context it records that nature, rivers and specific areas are increasingly recognised as legal persons as an ecocentric worldview emerges.