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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield in Montreal

‘Crucial’ Cop15 deal includes target to protect 30% of nature on Earth by 2030

Cop15 deal is passed in Montreal, Canada. From left, David Ainsworth, Huang Runqiu, Elizabeth Mrema and Inger Andersen.
Cop15 deal is passed in Montreal, Canada. From left, David Ainsworth, Huang Runqiu, Elizabeth Mrema and Inger Andersen. Photograph: Julian Haber/Courtesy of Environment and Climate Change Canada

Ministers and environmental groups have praised the ambition of the deal reached at Cop15, which includes a target to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade and places emphasis on Indigenous rights.

There was widespread support for the final text put forward after two weeks of UN biodiversity negotiations to agree this decade’s targets for protecting nature, which included protecting 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade, reforming $500bn (£410bn) of environmentally damaging subsidies, and taking urgent action on extinctions.

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