Nairobi, Kenya – Biodiversity negotiations dragged at a glacial pace this week in Nairobi, leaving a heavy workload for final talks in Montreal, where Canadian hosts and the Chinese presidency will need to steer the process and tackle virtually all key issues, including Indigenous rights and key targets to protect and restore ecosystems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Greenpeace International senior biodiversity campaign strategist An Lambrechts said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s no way to sugarcoat it. Nairobi forecasts a precarious COP15. The lack of leadership among parties is staggering. It\u2019s an unsettling contrast with their high rhetoric on the urgent need to protect biodiversity. Parties spent March\u2019s Geneva session creating a lot of confusion. We hoped Nairobi would clear things up, but unfortunately they\u2019re still not out of the weeds. A successful outcome at COP15 will require political leadership, real ambition, a timeline for implementation and a commitment to resources and finance, not just declarations and pledges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Greenpeace East Asia senior policy advisor Li Shuo said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \u201cCOP15 is the least well-prepared major environmental conference in recent memory. To prevent a dumpster fire in Montreal, the next five months are key. Our planet can hardly afford failure. But there has been so little political attention to salvage this process. Ministers from around the world need to arrive in Montreal with commitments and compromises in hand. China and Canada need to provide leadership now and actively engage one other. The fundamental need to protect nature could and should transcend geopolitics, Montreal is our chance to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Unresolved policy issues include recognition of the rights and roles Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCS) in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), key targets to increase protection and restoration of ecosystems, such as 30×30<\/a> (\u201cthirty-by-thirty\u201d) and fundamental implementation issues, such as how sufficient resources will be mobilized to achieve targets in the new GBF.<\/p>\n\n ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Policy briefing for a protection target: Greenpeace International CBD COP15 Policy Brief: Beyond 30\u00d730<\/a><\/p>\n\n For media enquiries please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Hellen Kahoso Dena, Greenpeace Africa, (hellen.dena@greenpeace.org<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n Tal Harris, Greenpeace Africa, (tal.harris@greenpeace.org<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n August Rick, Greenpeace East Asia, Beijing, (august.rick@greenpeace.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n Greenpeace International Press Desk, pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +31 20 718 2470 (24 hours) . Follow @greenpeacepress<\/a> on Twitter for our latest international press releases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biodiversity talks left all key issues unresolved before Montreal, nearing a collective failure that requires urgent political leadership from all sides. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,73],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[98],"class_list":["post-54580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-social-and-economic-systems","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54789,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions\/54789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54580"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=54580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}