{"id":1407001,"date":"2022-03-29T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407001"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:30:11","slug":"talks-on-paris-deal-for-nature-fail-to-secure-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/talks-on-paris-deal-for-nature-fail-to-secure-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks on \u2018Paris deal\u2019 for nature fail to secure agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftalks-on-paris-deal-for-nature-fail-to-secure-agreement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T132510Z_3_LYNXNPEI2S0NN_RTROPTP_0_GLOBAL-BIODIVERSITY_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Bees fly near a thermosolar hive in Chrudim\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Bees fly near a thermosolar hive in Chrudim May 25, 2015.  Picture taken May 25, 2015.  REUTERS\/David W Cerny\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Emma Farge<\/p>\n<p>GENEVA (Reuters) \u2013     Negotiations on an ambitious biodiversity deal to halt or reverse nature loss drew to a close in Switzerland on Tuesday, with countries expected to agree to little more than further talks in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva meeting of around 1,000 negotiators from 164 countries was meant to be the last before the postponed U.N. Conference on Biodiversity in the Chinese city of Kunming where countries are due to ratify a deal to protect some 1 million plant and animal species threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n<p>The framework has the potential to be the biodiversity equivalent of the 2015 Paris climate deal but campaigners have bemoaned glacial progress in the talks that on Tuesday are expected to approve another round of negotiations in Kenya in late June, a document showed.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace East Asia senior policy adviser Li Shuo said the process was \u201con shaky ground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process has so far been ill-designed and underwhelming,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A draft text yet to be formalised showed a large portion of the framework\u2019s 21 targets still in square brackets, indicating a lack of formal agreement. On the main mission of halting and reversing biodiversity losses, negotiators could not decide whether they were aiming for 2030 or 2050, the document showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been incredibly frustrating,\u201d said one delegate who declined to be named since the negotiating sessions are confidential. <\/p>\n<p>Others described lengthy meetings that often lasted until the early hours of the morning during the fortnight of talks that were the first in-person meetings for two years because of COVID-19 delays.<\/p>\n<p>One positive outcome, even if not formalised, is that participants said there was convergence around the idea of protecting 30% of land and sea areas globally by 2030. One of the co-chairs told Reuters he saw support for that target from China, the talks\u2019 president, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>However, some participants have called for greater ambition from China, with some voicing frustration about the lack of clarity on the Kunming summit timing as it faces a fourth delay due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Ministry of Ecology and Environment did not respond to a request for comment and Chinese officials in Geneva declined an interview request. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been listening but we hope for more engagement and ambition,\u201d Brian O\u2019Donnell, the director of the Campaign for Nature told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> (Additonal reporting by David Stanway in Shanghai; editing by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Bees fly near a thermosolar hive in Chrudim May 25, 2015. Picture taken May 25, 2015. 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