The G7 countries are trying to move again in search of ecological solutions for the future. The environment ministers of the seven main world countries (France, Canada, Germany, United States, Japan, Italy, United Kingdom), along with delegations from Mexico, Chile, Niger, Gabon, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Norway and by the European Union, met on Sunday in Metz, France, to adopt a “biodiversity charter“.
François de Rugy, France’s Minister of Ecological Transition, at the beginning of the summit, said that «we will agree on the best ways to enhance the place given to biodiversity in the international scene and to achieve an ambitious result at the COP15 meeting in China at the end of 2020». Also, the French minister hope for an concrete collective commitment by Monday evening.
The summit members will examine concrete initiatives to combat the great climate problems of our time (deforestation, drought, plastic pollution, defense of the coral barrier and biodiversity) and how to face them economically.
The summit will end in Monday afternoon, before the publication of UN report on the current situation of the world’s ecosystems. The report was write by more than 400 experts and will be the first UN global assessment of the natural world in 15 years.
Robert Watson, head of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, said that the current destruction of biodiversity and ecosystem services «has reached levels that threaten our well-being at least as much as human-induced climate change».