The Prime Minister presented on Monday the third “national biodiversity strategy”, awaited for two years, and must follow on from the first two, the objectives of which have not been achieved.
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Progress for biodiversity. Elisabeth Borne presented, Monday November 27, the final version of the third “national biodiversity strategy” (SNB). The Prime Minister advocated a “radicality of the results without the brutality of the measurements”. This third SNB, awaited for two years, must follow on from the first two, the objectives of which were not achieved.
“The collapse of biodiversity is so strong, so rapid, so widespread that a sixth extinction threatens. (…) In a word, the collapse of biodiversity is an existential threat to our societies. We must address it. quickly stem and strongly reverse the trend”, declared the head of government while presenting the 40 measures intended to safeguard nature and “stop the collapse of life” by 2030.
This strategy is supposed to be the French version of the Kunming-Montreal agreement, adopted in December 2022 by the international community at COP15 Biodiversity: effective protection of 30% of lands and seas, restoration of 30% of degraded ecosystems, reduction half of pesticides… The government has confirmed that it wants to place, by 2030, 10% of the national territory in “strong protection” (compared to 4.2% in 2023).
