Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature
Human rights law could be used to make sure countries abide by the agreement made at the COP15 summit. Discussion by researchers in The Conversation.
The article “Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature” is published on 20 December in The Conversation and is written by Niak Sian Koh, Stockholm University, and Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Lund University.
They write:
“The reason why people invest more faith in human rights law to prevent the extinction of another species is simple. The convention on biological diversity (CBD) has lacked a mechanism for reviewing each country’s progress since its adoption by all nations (except the US and Vatican City) in 1992. As a result, failure to meet commitments under the treaty are unchallenged, and opportunities for improvement are missed.
The COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada, recently saw more than 190 countries adopt new targets for conserving and sustainably using nature over the next eight years. Yet it stopped short of creating a mechanism which would independently review each country’s compliance with their pledges.”
Read the article published in The Conversation.
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Last updated: December 21, 2022
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