The Summit is an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and commitment to improve our relationship with nature, addressing the causes of change, and ensuring that biodiversity and the contributions it provides to all people are at the heart of sustainable development and the fight against climate change, The opening segment and the plenary session will highlight the connections between biodiversity, societies and economies. Criticising the establishment for wrong policies and excesses doesn’t make anyone anti-state. "The connections between human well-being and the health of our ecosystems are extensive," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the round table "Biodiversity Beyond 2020: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth.". "This pledge is a recognition of this crisis and an expression of the need for a profound re-commitment from world leaders to take urgent action," stated the signed document. Guterres links biodiversity to human health, livelihoods and economies. All rights reserved. Urgent action on biodiversity is needed across all sectors and from all actors. Some privately suspect that president Xi Jinping will surprise world leaders with another major environmental commitment during his speech at the summit’s opening, just days after he ramped up China’s carbon commitments by pledging to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. “As of the 28th of September 2020, Monday morning here in New York City, the number is now 70 governments including the European Union having signed up for this pledge,” stated UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. Together, they remind us of the urgent need to recognize our dependence on a healthy planet and to work together for transformative change. World Leaders Address Collapse Of The Natural World At The U.N. Biodiversity Summit By Nathan Rott Published September 30, 2020 at 2:10 PM MDT We are reminded that when we destroy and degrade biodiversity, we undermine the web of life and increase the risk of disease spillover from wildlife to people. Nature-based solutions can contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation, food and water security and to protection from flooding and other extreme events, and they provide key opportunities for integrating biodiversity into actions to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. In October 2020, COP-15 will consider the final draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework with a view to adoption. The Leaders’ Pledge for Nature is NOT the UN biodiversity agreement that countries are negotiating for the Kunming process. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam has said that Pakistan would support the global leaders’ pledge at the UN’s maiden Summit for Biodiversity 2020. 'Self-regulate fishing around the Galápagos islands' - Ecuadorian president, 'We must recognise we are not the most important species' - Costa Rican president, Combative Bolsonaro pledges to exploit Brazil's 'huge wealth of resources', Increasing protected areas could be 'biggest land grab in history' – indigenous activist, All eyes on China: what to look out for at the UN biodiversity summit, linking the pandemic with the destruction of ecosystems and species. Videos are requested to be submitted via https://wetransfer.com to Nehali.Anupriya@un.org & Mohammed.Shaker@un.org, We also request that speakers and organisations submitting videos to this segment also share these same videos on their social media platforms, on the following hashtags and in support of the Summit’s Social Media Campaign, 73/234. Talks are just about to begin. Responses to the pandemic provide a unique opportunity for transformative change as a global community. In 2010, Parties to the CBD committed to “take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity” through the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi targets. A large number of people do not report to the commission as they have little faith in it. Scope, modalities, format and organization of the summit, 74/562. Construction, agriculture, and food and beverages are the three largest sectors most dependent on nature. Pakistan has twelve climate zones. Last decade, the world failed to meet a single target set at previous talks. Whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity need to be strengthened. "Together, they must develop and agree on a shared plan for the biodiversity and climate negotiations scheduled for next year, to secure a carbon-neutral, nature-positive and equitable future for all. Munir Akram, President of the Economic and Social Council, is addressing the summit right now, calling for a re-imagination of GDP and nature’s role in human wealth. In order to protect the global biodiversity, world leaders committed to 20 targets in 2010 during a meeting at Aichi in Japan. Volkan Bozkır begins the summit with a grim summary of the state of nature on planet Earth, underlining the link between zoonotic diseases and biodiversity loss. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development, 74/221. We’ll try to get to as many of your questions as possible but we can’t promise we’ll answer everyone. Ana María Hernández Salgar says that governments, the private sector, academia and industry must come together on responding the biodiversity crisis. Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern are among more than a hundred prime ministers and presidents who will address the event. This official pledging ceremony aimed at bringing a powerful collective political signal to the UN Biodiversity Summit scheduled two days later, prioritizing nature, climate and people to face the current planetary emergency. The Decade of Action and Delivery for Sustainable Development provides a critical opportunity to halt biodiversity loss and encourage its sustainable use. With signatories from 70  nations across five continents, including those represented at the event, the Leaders Pledge for Nature commits to ten urgent actions to put nature on a path to recovery by 2030. Thus, “in the two years of our government, we have increased the national parks by nine,” he said. On Monday, 64 political leaders and the European Union launched a “leader’s pledge for nature” with a 10-point plan to halt global biodiversity destruction. The draconian sedition law was a tool for the British to suppress the freedom struggle in the subcontinent against imperialism. “With the pledges, with the commitment for action now, clearly the post-2020 framework will equally be transformative, innovative, action-oriented, as expected”, stated Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.