Reacción a "Reactions to the agreement reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 "

This is a historic agreement for what it represents, which could be summarised as: a) a global commitment to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030; b) protect 30% of all land and ocean by 2030; c) restore 30% of degraded land by 2030; d) a commitment to end human-induced species extinctions by 2030; and e) unprecedented funding for nature.  

The hard work begins now: implementing all these goals in record time, less than 10 years. There is a lot of work ahead, including for the scientific community. Our role will be how to support decision-makers in translating the targets at national, regional and local levels, how to create favourable conditions for implementation and, of course, monitoring to be able to assess whether the implemented actions help us move in the right direction. The agreement is far from perfect and could have benefited from more political ambition, but nothing detracts from the fact that it has taken a lot of hard work to get this far and we now have a roadmap on which we can all work in the same direction.