CALL ON GOVERNMENTS TO INCLUDE POPULATION IN BIODIVERSITY AGREEMENT
To prevent further biodiversity loss, we must address the impact of our growing humanpopulation. Please call on your country’s environment minister to support the inclusion of positive, choice-based population action in the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is the key international agreement protecting global biodiversity. Signatory governments must develop plans to protect biodiversity in their own nations, settargets and coordinateinternational action. Yet, progress is slow, targets are not being met and leaders are not taking this issue seriously enough.
Not a single one of the Aichi biodiversity targets have been met, in part because they fail to address human population growth, one of the main drivers fuelling the destruction of nature. It’s vital that the new programme of action to replace the Aichi targets addresses population to have…
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