{"id":798,"date":"2021-10-28T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=798"},"modified":"2021-10-28T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T10:53:39","slug":"the-other-cop-biodiversity-cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;other&#8217; COP: Biodiversity COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?page_id=272\">COP26<\/a> on Climate Change in Glasgow is the focus of attention across the world, it&#8217;s also necessary to realise that there are other important aspects of the ecological crisis needing urgent action.\u00a0 The first part of UN&#8217;s COP15 on Biodiversity took place online in October.\u00a0 Protection of Biodiversity needs to be an important aspect of our environmental action in Scotland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sean Thompson of <a href=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/about-us\/\">Red Green Labour<\/a> has posted <a href=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\">a report on the COP15<\/a> on Biodiversity that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/\">ecosocialist.scot<\/a> is reproducing with kind permission.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The preparations for COP 26 have understandably attracted increasing public and media attention in the run-up to the conference in November. Unfortunately this has tended to overshadow the equally vital COP 15 conference which took place on 11 \u2013 15 October.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, which to be pedantic comprised the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/\">Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)<\/a>, the tenth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cartagena Protocol COP\/MOP 10), and the fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (Nagoya Protocol COP\/MOP 4), had already been postponed three times because of the Covid 19 pandemic and was finally reconfigured as a two part affair, the first virtual and the second, an actual face-to-face meeting, scheduled for April\/May next year in Kunming, China.<\/p>\n<p>Originally signed by 150 countries at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and later ratified by a further 45, significantly not including the United States, the Convention is designed to protect diversity of plant and animal species and ensure natural resources are used sustainably.<\/p>\n<p>It also aims to achieve \u2018fair and equitable sharing\u2019 of benefits from natural genetic material, used in everything from medicines to new crop species. In practice that means making sure indigenous communities and countries home to biological riches benefit from their use.<\/p>\n<p>Global targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss have been set before, in both 2002 and 2010, but were largely missed by virtually every country. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcl.org.uk\/a-global-agreement-for-nature.asp\">Georgina Chandler of RSPB<\/a>, a number of countries, including Canada, the European Union, Costa Rica, Colombia and Britain are pushing for greater ambition on nature protection and have the aspiration that the summit\u00a0 will set both long-term goals for 2050 and shorter-term targets for 2030 and, crucially, push for those to be enshrined in national policies.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the event, most of the virtual meeting was taken up with procedural matters, with the secretariat noting \u201cwith concern that a number of Parties have not paid their contributions to the core budgets \u2026 for 2020 and prior years, including Parties that have never paid their contributions\u201d. At the end of the conference, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/doc\/c\/99c8\/9426\/1537e277fa5f846e9245a706\/kunmingdeclaration-en.pdf\">Kunming Declaration<\/a>\u00a0was adopted. This was little more than a statement of good intentions, setting general ambitions for biodiversity protection, but not addressing questions about implementation or further commitments from governments.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, there were some tentative signs of progress. The Declaration did at least note the growing support from countries for \u201830\u00d730\u2019, the aspiration to protect at least 30% of the Earth\u2019s land and seas by 2030. At least 20 governments taking part in the meeting stressed the critical importance of the 30\u00d730 goal, making it the most highlighted target by parties in the meeting. Among them was India, which has recently joined the\u00a0<em>High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People<\/em>, a group of more than 70 countries pushing for the inclusion of 30\u00d730 in the final biodiversity treaty.\u00a0Significantly, although the USA is not party to the convention, Joe Biden has recently committed to protect at least 30% of his country\u2019s land and coastal waters by 2030, as part of the international \u201c30\u00d730\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the host of the conference, China, announced a couple of positive, if comparatively modest, initiatives on the sidelines of the event; $230 million to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, and the creation of new national parks in China covering an area of 230,000 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The virtual Part One of COP 15 did little more than set the scene for Part two in Kunming next spring. Between now and 25 April, the 195 countries that are signed up to the Convention will have negotiate the targets for the global biodiversity framework that governments will aim to meet by the end of the decade. The draft text of the framework includes proposals to reduce pesticide use by two-thirds and eliminate plastic pollution by the end of the decade as well as the 30\u00d730 target. Whether those goals end up in the final agreement \u2013 and whether they are acted on \u2013 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\" data-a2a-title=\"COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?\"><em>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/\">Red Green Labour<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\" data-a2a-title=\"COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?\"><\/div>\n<h4 data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\" data-a2a-title=\"COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?\"><\/h4>\n<h4 data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\" data-a2a-title=\"COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?\">Protection of Scotland&#8217;s rich natural wildlife and biodiversity in the midst of the ecological crisis is an important aspect of ecosocialist campaigning<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-806 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gary-ellis-lBK8ui-FD3Y-unsplash-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gary-ellis-lBK8ui-FD3Y-unsplash-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gary-ellis-lBK8ui-FD3Y-unsplash-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gary-ellis-lBK8ui-FD3Y-unsplash-2-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gary Ellis on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/redgreenlabour.org\/2021\/10\/27\/cop-15-a-virtual-conference-that-achieved-virtually-nothing\/\" data-a2a-title=\"COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing?\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F798&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F798&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While COP26 on Climate Change in Glasgow is the focus of attention across the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61,6,25],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-biodiversity","tag-environment","tag-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The &#039;other&#039; COP: Biodiversity COP 15 \u2013 a virtual conference that achieved virtually nothing? 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