'Wealthy nations must agree to a viable path to direct at least $60 billion in public funding to developing nations to prevent extinctions, safeguard clean water, and maintain the healthy natural systems on which communities rely,' said one campaigner.
Comparing the framework to the 2015 Paris agreement, BirdLife International CEO Patricia Zurita said Tuesday that"ending the biodiversity crisis is as important to the future of humanity as stopping climate change."
According to the groups, adequately addressing the biodiversity crisis would cost about $844 billion annually—$711 billion more than is currently being spent.released The joint demand for countries such as Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and members of the European Union to dramatically increase international finance for biodiversity came a day after a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Noting that the biodiversity and climate crises are related, the IPCC said that human-caused global heating and worsening extreme weather are already endangering species and ecosystems worldwide, and those risks will continue to escalate as...
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