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COP15构建人与自然和谐共生美好未来 词数 400 建议阅读时间 6分钟
From Dec 7 to 19, delegates from around the world met at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (also known as COP15), in Montreal, Canada.
After two weeks of intense debate at COP15, delegates agreed on Dec 19 1 ____________(adopt) a landmark plan2 ___________(halt) and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
“Finally, we reached our destiny. We adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework,” (昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架)Huang Runqiu, announced on Dec 19.
The new framework is a commitment by 196 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to conserve at least 30 percent of the Earth’s land and ocean area by the next decade. It also will increase the expected annual financial assistance from developed countries through 2030 to help developing nations with biodiversity protection.
The aim of COP15 is3 _____________(ensure) biodiversity loss is changed by 2030, and that humans are able to live in harmony 4 ____________nature by 2050.
5_______________(realize) these objectives can be very6_______________(challenge) . At COP10 in Nagoya名古屋, Japan in 2010, the parties agreed on the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets (爱知生物多样性目标). 7______, as of now, none of the 20 objectives has been fully realized.
It is important to turn consensus into concrete actions. Yet, 8_______recent talks have shown, an aspect of effective international action 9______stopping climate change is the cooperation of developed countries. Developed countries, however, have fallen short 10_______their responsibility as they have failed 11_____________(fulfill) the obligations according to the COP convention to provide funding and technology to 12___________(poor) nations who lack the means to combat climate change.
13______________(solve) this problem, the framework creates a new biodiversity fund within the UN’s existing Global Environment Facility. This came about 14_______ a compromi