French President Emmanuel Macron announced
that the High Ambition Coalition for Nature
and People, which was launched in 2019 by
Costa Rica, France and Britain to set a target of
protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030,
has now been joined by 50 countries.
A 2019 U.N. report on biodiversity showed that
human activities are putting nature in more
trouble now than at any other time in human
history, with extinction looming for over 1
million species of plants and animals.
“We know even more clearly amid the crisis we
are going through that all our vulnerabilities
are interrelated,” Macron said. “Pressure on
nature exerted by human activities is increasing
inequalities and threatening our health and
our security.”