Federal, provincial and territorial leaders issued a joint statement Friday 'committing to contribute toward halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 and to put nature on a path to recovery by 2050.'
adds to growing fears the world could be entering a human-caused mass extinction phase, and as the United Nations urges countries to commit themselves to halting biodiversity loss and protecting 30 per cent of land and water globally.more than 2,000 of themFederal, provincial and territorial leaders issued a joint statement Friday "committing to contribute toward halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 and to put nature on a path to recovery by 2050.
The Canadian government already has set ambitious targets for conserving 30 per cent of Canada's lands and oceans by 2030. The target was a component of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework signed in 2022 at COP15, a UN convention. Nova Scotia Environment Minister Tim Halman, right, and B.C. Minister of Land, Water, and Resource Stewardship Nathan Cullen look on as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault responds to a question during a news conference on May 26, 2023 in Ottawa."We all agreed. All of us sitting around the table.
Nova Scotia's Environment Minister Tim Halman, who has disagreed with Guilbeault on climate policy, described the meetings with other environment ministers as "very productive" and applauded Guilbeault's leadership on the nature file during a joint news conference. "Canada is a community of communities. You are seeing provinces and territories in their own way moving to conserve land and water," Halman said.
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