{"id":42559,"date":"2020-09-30T18:49:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=42559"},"modified":"2020-09-30T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:49:34","slug":"china-host-major-nature-talks-fails-step-un-biodiversity-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/30\/china-host-major-nature-talks-fails-step-un-biodiversity-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"China host of major nature talks fails to step up at UN biodiversity summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China was exposed empty-handed at a UN biodiversity event, raising concerns the host of critical talks on restoring nature next year is failing to set the pace for negotiations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those expecting a repeat of President Xi Jinping&#8217;s surprise announcement last week that China was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/22\/xi-jinping-china-will-achieve-carbon-neutrality-2060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060<\/a> were left disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Xi outlined no grand plan for <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reversing nature loss and environmental destruction when he addressed the high-level biodiversity event on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to seek a kind of modernisation that promotes harmonious coexistence of man and nature,\u201d he told political leaders in a pre-recorded message, insisting that economic development could take place while preserving the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It falls to all of us to act together and turn the earth into a beautiful homeland,&#8221; he added, calling on countries to strike an agreement during major biodiversity talks in Kunming, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">provisionally scheduled for May 2021, when governments are due to agree on a new framework to halt the decline of biodiversity beyond 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UN summit on biodiversity convened by UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on the sidelines of the general assembly <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aimed to build political momentum and bolster financial commitments ahead of the talks in Kunming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UN hoped the event would be a platform for countries to announce concrete action to stem the decline of the planet\u2019s biodiversity. But beyond speeches, few leaders came with a plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/28\/un-summit-highlights-700bn-funding-gap-restore-nature\/\"><strong>UN summit<\/strong> highlights $700bn funding gap to restore nature<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf the summit is nothing but rhetoric, then we are repeating the mistakes made in Aichi,\u201d Li Shuo, Beijing-based senior energy and climate officer at Greenpeace, told Climate Home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe lack of substance can\u2019t hide the fact that political will on global nature protection is low,\u201d Li <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiShuo_GP\/status\/1311328988711714817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> during the summit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 64 political leaders and the European Union launched a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaderspledgefornature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leader&#8217;s pledge for nature<\/a>&#8221; with a\u00a010-point plan to halt global biodiversity destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge has now been signed by more than 70 countries, but China is not one of them.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia, Brazil, Russia and the US, whose governments all control vast swathes of land and oceans, have not signed up either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campaigners say that without concrete commitments, next year\u2019s talks will fall flat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/gbo\/gbo5\/publication\/gbo-5-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earlier this month concluded that the world has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/08\/world-misses-2020-biodiversity-goals-leaked-un-draft-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all 20 biodiversity targets for 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> agreed in Aichi, Japan, in 2010. Funding shortfalls were highlighted as a significant barrier to meeting the targets and campaigners fear the failure could repeat itself if countries do not raise more funds ahead of the talks in Kunming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN agencies have warned that countries needed to commit an additional <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/28\/un-summit-highlights-700bn-funding-gap-restore-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$700 billion per year to reverse the destruction of nature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But at a funding conference on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/28\/un-summit-highlights-700bn-funding-gap-restore-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only Germany made a firm commitment<\/a> to increase its funding for protecting biodiversity in developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/22\/bolsonaro-shifts-blame-unprecedented-brazilian-wetland-fires\/\"><strong>Bolsonaro<\/strong> shifts blame for unprecedented Brazilian wetland fires<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChina should provide stronger leadership in the current Kunming process. It is crystal clear that the negotiations are heading to an Aichi 2.0. If one looks at the Aichi round, it is essentially a rhetorical boom in 2010 followed by an implementation bust over the subsequent decade,\u201d Li told CHN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other major emitters have also been criticised for their lack of commitment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US did not even send a representative to the UN event. And Brazil&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">president Jair Bolsonaro told the UN in a statement last week the country was already subject to \u201cthe best environmental legislation on the planet&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tuesday, Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-54338892#:~:text=The%20Brazilian%20government%20of%20Jair,and%20other%20fragile%20coastal%20ecosystems.&amp;text=The%20decision%20removed%20so%2Dcalled,and%20the%20sand%2Ddune%20scrublands.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revoked regulations that protect tropical mangroves<\/a> and other coastal ecosystems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTheir deliberate plans to actively destroy nature makes both the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations climate villains,\u201d said Arlo Hemphill, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia was also noticeably absent from the UN biodiversity summit. A government spokesperson said Australia would not agree to environmental targets &#8220;unless we can tell the Australian people what they will cost to achieve and how we will achieve it&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners had hoped President Xi would surprise the world again this week with tough measures to reverse biodiversity loss. 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