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Add to Preferred SourcesMore than 20 Heads of State and Government and 6 Ministers committed to a Leaders Pledge for Nature at the Nature for Life Hub. 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.
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 ten actions at the center of the pledge include building clear political will through a transformational new global biodiversity framework, putting nature at the heart of COVID recovery, addressing climate change, and strengthening financial and non-financial support for implementation.
“As of the 28th of September 2020, Monday morning the number is now 70 governments including the European Union having signed up for this pledge,” stated UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. “Citizens across the world [are] perhaps beginning to believe that leadership in politics and business and civil society [are] finally taking that challenge of looking after the nature of our planet more seriously. But very often, Indigenous peoples are the forgotten stewards of biodiversity, they are part of this global effort, and they must be an integral and active part of the solution.”
During the event, global leaders stressed the COVID-19 pandemic as a critical ‘reset’ for humanity, emphasizing the urgent need to change course in the next ten years.
Representatives from major funding agencies, private sector, and UN agencies echoed these calls to action, stressing the need for collaboration across sectors.
Read Leaders’ Pledge for Nature.
Original source: UNDP