The UN's biodiversity chief says talks under way in Montreal are the last chance to save nature.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
But it also includes trickier political issues, such as protecting the rights and access of indigenous people to their territories. , ahead of the talks, ecologist Prof Sandra Diaz, from the National University of Córdoba, said the brackets had "proliferated at an alarming rate throughout the text, neutralising and paralysing goals and targets".Ms Mrema said the scientific evidence revealed the scale of the crisis and the urgent need for the talks to succeed.
He called for a peace pact with the natural world and, in a thinly veiled swipe at those with ambitions to colonise Mars, he said: "Forget the dreams of some billionaires, there is no planet B."A headline target in the draft biodiversity agreement is to formally protect 30% of natural areas by 2030
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