About:
- What is it? The Global Deal for Nature is a science-based plan to protect the diversity abundance of life on Earth and do it by 2030.
- Objective: To tackle dangerous climate change or climate breakdown and safeguard biodiversity in order to avoid any worsening of the sixth mass extinction that we have found ourselves in.
- Bodies involved: The GDN campaign is being driven by One Earth, an initiative of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation that aims to gather support from international institutions, governments, and citizens of planet Earth to support ambitious conservation goals.
- Timeline: In 2017, an international team of scientists proposed the Global Deal for Nature. Now, in a paper published in the journal Science Advances, the scientists have laid out a set of specific targets and milestones under GDN.
Key highlights of the GDN:
- Around 30 % of the planet is to be fully protected under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity by 2030.
- Another 20 % of the planet would be protected under the GDN as Climate Stabilization Areas (CSAs). CSAs would meet the definition of “Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures” (OECMs) adopted by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity late last year.
- Governments should adopt the GDN as a companion pact alongside the Paris Climate Agreement approved by nearly 200 countries in 2015.
- Saving the diversity and abundance of life on the earth may cost $100 billion a year.
