The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged the international community to agree on the establishment of a new and transformative framework to strengthen conservation of biodiversity.
Marco Lambertini, the Director General at WWF International, said this at a briefing on the sidelines of the fourth meeting of the open ended working group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework underway in Nairobi.
He stressed that a global consensus was urgent to facilitate establishment of a landmark pact to reinvigorate protection of species and speed up nature positive growth, Xinhua news agency reported.
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“We need a science based, ambitious and measurable framework to reverse habitat loss, and put us on a path towards carbon neutrality,” he said.
The Nairobi meeting, according to Lambertini, should rise above partisan interests to agree on a text that could open a new chapter in global efforts to reverse unprecedented loss of specie.
He noted that biodiversity loss had not only created an ecological crisis but had worsened poverty, food insecurity, water scarcity and declining health outcomes for grassroots communities.
Convened by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the June 21-26 meeting in Nairobi is fine tuning the final draft of a global framework to re-engineer conservation of species in the next decade.
