The countries present at COP15, the biodiversity summit held in Montreal, Canada, have reached a historic agreement to save Biodiversity. This agreement, known as the “Kunming-Montreal agreement”, aims to protect 30% of the planet by 2030. This broadly means protecting land, oceans and species from pollution, degradation, the climate crisis and securing the rights of indigenous peoples.
The agreement that was intended to be found has been defined as the Paris Biodiversity Agreement, the treaty to combat climate change signed in 2015. In recent years it has become apparent that the great battle against global warming has often obscured the loss of biodiversity, which threatens an eighth of the planet’s known plant and animal species.
This Kunming-Montreal treaty prioritises urgent action to “halt the human-induced extinction of threatened species”. By 2050, one of the agreement’s targets states, “the rate of extinction” will be reduced tenfold from the current figure.
The objectives to be achieved, which, as we have already explained, have a target date of 2030 or 2050, can be classified into two blocks: tactical objectives and financial objectives to guarantee biodiversity.
Tactical targets to save biodiversity
STAR ACTION: Protect at least 30% of land, inland waters, coastal areas and oceans.
Restore all or part of 30% of the world’s degraded terrestrial, inland and coastal and marine ecosystems.
Reduce food waste by 50% and greatly reduce overconsumption and the waste it generates.
Halve excess nutrients and the risk posed by the most hazardous chemicals and pesticides.
Prevent the introduction of new and priority invasive alien species.
Financial targets to prevent biodiversity loss
Leverage financial support from developed countries to developing countries up to at least $20 billion per year by 2025 and up to $30 billion by 2030.
Mobilise at least $200 billion per year by 2030 in domestic and international biodiversity-related funding from both public and private sources.
Phase out or reform biodiversity-damaging subsidies by at least $500 billion each year by 2030.
Packaging as a key sector to save biodiversity
The packaging sector is fundamental to meeting the objectives recently approved at the Montreal Summit. Both directly and indirectly, as it forms part of or provides coverage for the most polluting or waste-generating sectors of society, such as, for example, the food industry or the textile industry, without going any further. In addition, the new Law on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy (Law 7/2022 of 8 April) has recently come into force, a text that we have recently analysed in depth on the COVERPAN blog.
Coverpan, standard-bearer of the green economy in the packaging sector
At Coverpan we know the role we play as a manufacturing company and for this reason we have been strongly committed for many years to a green economy, totally sustainable. Proof of this is our PackInGreen® production system, which is the result of our daily commitment to contribute to the Circular Economy, a commitment by which we offer a complete range of bio-based, biodegradable and compostable packaging, which are manufactured from natural resources, thus guaranteeing biodiversity and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda.
