Biodiversity Meetings in Nagoya - 12 days for self discovery
We are allowing nature to escape from our hands and
therefore we are losing ourselves.
Naturalist Edward O. Wilson may well summarized the importance on the The summit of Biological Diversity in Nagoya Japan, celebrated this
past October aimed for a comprehensive protections plan for Species by
2020. Despite the less ambitious goals as perceived by conservation
experts, it has become clear that the main contentions of the protocol
revolve around access and benefit sharing between developing countries
rich in Biodiversity and industrialized nations whose advanced
technology permit extracting benefit from rapidly vanishing species.
Developing countries seem to have won major concessions and in
landmark agreement under the ABS (Access and Benefit
sharing and access and benefit sharing), these will seem to be
benefiting from ''derivatives' generated by Industrialized nations and
industries such as the Pharmaceutic were more hopeful for limited
agreements, seeing that actual agreements could affect them
economically.
Another reality: One in five species is endangered.
Halting biodiversity loss and covering costs for effective action
however may not seem to have advanced much more. The agreement appears
to have defrauded on targets and specific species - conservation
organizations and experts seem to coincide in that the goals of
Protecting 17% of Land Space and 10% of Marine environment are not
significant advancements over those objectives that already existed
before the summit.
The
director of World Wildlife Fund, Jim Leape, said that despite the
limitations of the agreement "reaffirms this critical need to preserve
nature as the foundation of our health and our economy. Governments
have given a strong message that protect the planet is a central theme of international politics.
"The
forests in our countries are vital for the planet and expect financial
assistance in order to preserve the common good of humanity," said
Johansen Voker, the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia.
Developed
countries agreed to establish mechanisms to collect relief funds for
2020, which can mean a significant flow of funds to developing nations
but these plans which should be in place by 2012, when Rio de Janeiro
will host the second Earth Summit, will need to add to the existing
pledges already set for $100 billion for fighting climate change. With
an accumulation of Environmental Challenges, it is unclear that
governmental can be the unique sources funding, but more importantly,
it appears that fighting Biodiversity Loss may have to be placed on
higher priority than that of Carbon Emissions.
With the 10th conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (COP10) closing, everyone goes back to work on
plans for establishing new priorities that can effectively overcome the
biggest issue made now evident: biodiversity loss, is now at a thousand times higher rate than it should be naturally.
It couldn't be clearer that we have a phenomenon on our hands that has escaped our control and or/ accountant's capability to pin down benefits for enterprise and governments. Zero Tolerance to extinctions may be a step ahead but for sure it must be a call for action that cannot escape anyone's attention.
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