U.N. Passes Global Nature Deal

Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu is conducting the U.N.-backed COP15 biodiversity conference meeting. It brought down the official gavel and said a proposed deal passed minutes behind the Congolese representative voiced their objection.

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, recalling the joint leadership of China and Canada, is completing four years of work toward agreeing to guide global conservation efforts via 2030.

The countries following the conference had been privately dealing with a text presented on Sunday, and talks addressing the finer points of the deal carried on until Monday morning.

As the members yielded to the public hall, Huang began delivering the outcome of the meeting. Then, a delegation representative from Congo opposed the text, raising concerns about developed nations’ commitment to fund conservation in developing countries.

Expressing Opinions

The Congolese spokesperson expressed through a translator that the parties, which are developed nations, should provide resources to developing parties.

Nevertheless, the Mexican delegation supported the presidency and the prepared text.

Huang accepted the Mexican remarks and then brought down the gavel stating the deal’s adoption. This caused outraged remarks from other African delegations.

A representative from Cameroon spoke via a translator. The spokesperson from Uganda stated that they did not accept the spirit and how the gavel dropped and requested to put on record that it did not sustain the procedure, invoking deception.