The World Conservation Congress has been postponed to 2021
Environment — di Martina Girola
The World Conservation Congress and COP 15 on biodiversity have been postponed to March 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The World Conservation Congress has been postponed to 2021
The World Conservation Congress and COP 15 on biodiversity have been postponed to March 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It was 20 March, shortly after the start of the coronavirus emergency in Italy, when we highlighted how this pandemic risked slowing down climate action. Shortly afterwards, COP 26, the twenty-sixth United Nations World Climate Conference, which was due to be held in November of this year in Glasgow, Scotland, was postponed by a year, and now the World Conservation Congress and COP 15 on biodiversity have also been postponed to 2021, with dates yet to be confirmed. This means that in 2020 none of the most important events dedicated to the protection of nature will take place.
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The World Conservation Congress has been postponed
The World Conservation Congress, one of the crucial events preceding COP 15, is organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Iucn) and represents the opportunity to update the list of threatened species, establish priorities and launch new ecosystem protection actions. It was due to be held in Marseille, France, in June 2020 and had already been postponed to January 2021. A few days ago, given the evolution of the epidemic, it was again postponed to a date yet to be determined.
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Read about the areas of progress & the 8 transitions to secure our future. #GBO5
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COP 15 on biodiversity also postponed
Due to the evolving coronavirus pandemic, which to date has recorded more than 31 million cases and almost one million deaths worldwide, COP 15 on biodiversity, which was due to be held in October of this year, has been postponed to 2021, in the hope that the global health situation will stabilise. It will still be held in Kunming, China, but the date has not yet been decided.
2020 opened the last decade available to defeat the climate crisis and did so with a pandemic that demonstrated incontrovertibly how the destruction of ecosystems has severe repercussions on the lives of the planet's inhabitants — human, animal and plant alike. The hope is that what has been so painfully learned during this year will remain alive in people's memory and can truly serve as a starting point for the 2021 negotiations.