{"id":217746,"date":"2022-12-09T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217746"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:25:38","slug":"over-100-experts-oppose-nature-positive-fund-in-open-letter-to-unx-before-cop15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-100-experts-oppose-nature-positive-fund-in-open-letter-to-unx-before-cop15\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 experts oppose \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019 in open letter to UNx before COP15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><b>e \u201cOver 100 experts oppose \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019 in open letter to UNx before COP15\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 9th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 100 experts want the United Nations, World Economic Forum, European Commission and WWF to reject the \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019 at the 15th COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Nature Positive?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature positive\u2019 means enhancing the resilience of our planet and societies to halt and reverse nature loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is that there should be more nature in 2030 than in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018nature-positive\u2019 goal could be the equivalent of the 1.5 degrees Celcius pledge, providing a sense of direction for the movement: where emissions cuts are needed to curb rising temperatures, nature protection is needed to boost biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Nature Positive Fund?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the 15th COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), countries are planning to discuss setting up a Nature Positive Fund to promote a positive nature agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, experts have called for the rejection of this fund as it promotes the financialization of nature\u2019s destruction via <strong>1)<\/strong> Monetary valuation of ecosystems, <strong>2)<\/strong> Biodiversity offsetting and <strong>3)<\/strong> Diverting the conversation away from the need to curb biodiversity destruction and towards \u2018sustainable\u2019 finance regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOver 100 experts oppose \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019 in open letter to UNx before COP15\u201d published in Down To Earth on 9th December 2022 What is the News? Over 100 experts want the United Nations, World Economic Forum, European Commission and WWF to reject the \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-100-experts-oppose-nature-positive-fund-in-open-letter-to-unx-before-cop15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 100 experts oppose \u2018Nature Positive Fund\u2019 in open letter to UNx before COP15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-217746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701095145},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}