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STORY: NICE / UNOC3 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK
TRT: 01:58
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JUNE 2025, NICE, FRANCE
1. Med shot, UNOC3 venue
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
“Having looked at what has been submitted so far, our first analysis shows us that that the levels of ambition of the national targets we have seen thus far will not enable us - will not enable us - to achieve the goals and targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.”
4. Wide shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD):
“The global community has repeatedly recognized the need for urgency and ambition and there is no shortage of technical guidance, including Voluntary Guidelines for the Design and Effective Implementation of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction that are currently being produced under the CBD. But, if these are not reflected in national planning and implementation, both in terms of the level of ambition needed and but also in terms of the scope of cross-sectoral action needed, we will fail to achieve our common goals.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
“We must also face the reality that many Parties are not able to move forward to set national targets with levels of ambition if they do not have the requisite financing and post financing in the ocean space is a particular issue, as we have heard many times. With the global financing situation becoming even more and more volatile, we are facing now a true test of how to put our ambition into practice and how we can better make the case that biodiversity and ocean biodiversity are an investment opportunity, an investment in our future but also an investment that deals significant returns.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) said that the levels of ambition of the national targets “we have seen thus far will not enable us - will not enable us - to achieve the goals and targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.”
Schomaker addressed today (12 Jun) the Ocean Action Panel 7: Leveraging ocean, climate and biodiversity interlinkages at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France.
She said, “Having looked at what has been submitted so far, our first analysis shows us that that the levels of ambition of the national targets we have seen thus far will not enable us - will not enable us - to achieve the goals and targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.”
She also said, “The global community has repeatedly recognized the need for urgency and ambition and there is no shortage of technical guidance, including Voluntary Guidelines for the Design and Effective Implementation of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction that are currently being produced under the CBD. But, if these are not reflected in national planning and implementation, both in terms of the level of ambition needed and but also in terms of the scope of cross-sectoral action needed, we will fail to achieve our common goals.”
She stated, “We must also face the reality that many Parties are not able to move forward to set national targets with levels of ambition if they do not have the requisite financing and post financing in the ocean space is a particular issue, as we have heard many times. With the global financing situation becoming even more and more volatile, we are facing now a true test of how to put our ambition into practice and how we can better make the case that biodiversity and ocean biodiversity are an investment opportunity, an investment in our future but also an investment that deals significant returns.”
