生物多様性、新目標で合意　持続可能な自然利用へ一歩―ＣＯＰ１５

　【モントリオール時事】カナダのモントリオールで開催中の国連生物多様性条約第１５回締約国会議（ＣＯＰ１５）は１９日、希少な動植物の保全などを進めるための新たな国際目標で合意した。人類の存続に不可欠な自然環境や生態系の保全に向け、重要な一歩を踏み出した。
　新目標の名称は「昆明・モントリオール世界生物多様性枠組み」。２０５０年までの「自然と共生する世界」の実現を目指し、３０年までに達成すべき２３項目の個別目標を掲げた。代表的なのは、陸・海のそれぞれ３０％以上を健全な生態系として保全する「３０ｂｙ３０」。途上国への資金援助拡大や、企業活動が生物多様性に与える影響の把握・公表なども盛り込まれた。（2022/12/19-20:07）

Countries from around the globe, at a U.N. biodiversity conference in Montreal, Canada, have reached a new agreement laying out 23 targets for ecosystem conservation that should be achieved by 2030 to realize a world living with nature by 2050.
   Adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, on Monday, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework marks a critical step toward conserving biodiversity necessary for human sustainability.
   The deal includes a signature target of protecting at least 30 pct of lands, inland waters, coastal areas and oceans on Earth by 2030, or the so-called 30 by 30 goal. It also calls for more financial aid to developing countries, and monitoring and disclosing the impact of corporate activities on biodiversity.
   Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu, who chaired COP15, welcomed the agreement, saying that participating countries finally arrived at the destination. At the conference venue, representatives from the nations stood up and cheered in unison when the deal was adopted.
   The deal will succeed the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, adopted at COP10 in the central Japan city of Nagoya in 2010. Member nations will move on to the next phase of drawing up their respective plans.