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Eight months ago, China landed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), with the strong support of the host Canada. In delivering the GBF, the world delivered a blueprint to protect, conserve and restore nature for the good of all humanity. In the GBF, the world made a number of significant commitments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Yes, protect 30 per cent of the terrestrial and marine environment. Yes, put 30 percent of land and marine area under active restoration by 2030. And yes, mobilize US$ 30 billion by 2030. But so much more.
Eight months ago, China landed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), with the strong support of the host Canada. In delivering the GBF, the world delivered a blueprint to protect, conserve and restore nature for the good of all humanity. In the GBF, the world made a number of significant commitments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Yes, protect 30 per cent of the terrestrial and marine environment. Yes, put 30 percent of land and marine area under active restoration by 2030. And yes, mobilize US$ 30 billion by 2030. But so much more.
Soy plantation in Bolivia. China is the leading importer of soy, a commodity that drives tropical deforestation. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons
A recent study by Chinese and international experts argues that China’s leaders are recognizing the importance of greening the country’s commodity value chains. As China reassesses the vulnerability and risks of its global value chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic and considers how to build back its economy with greater resilience and sustainability, the political moment is right to make this shift.
Roughly 40% of tropical forest destruction in the past decade was driven by agricultural expansion, notably the production of “soft” commodities like soy, palm oil and beef, along with industrial-scale logging for timber. This ecosystem damage has a global impact, contributing approximately 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions and posing an unprecedented threat to animal and plant species.