巴黎 - 联合国秘书长古特雷斯在10月15日表示，“与自然的战争尚未结束”，因为他发布了一份报告，显示世界在生物多样性承诺方面进展不足。
PARIS - UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Oct 15 that the “war on nature has not yet ended” as he launched a report showing the world was falling short of its biodiversity commitments.
各国将在下周亚美尼亚举行的联合国生物多样性谈判中评估实现2030年阻止自然破坏目标的进展与障碍。
Nations will assess progress and pitfalls toward a 2030 goal to stop the destruction of nature when they meet in Armenia next week for the UN biodiversity negotiations.
近200个国家在四年前加入了具有里程碑意义的“巴黎自然协定”，但行动缓慢，未能有效推进其目标。
Nearly 200 countries joined the landmark “Paris Agreement for Nature” four years ago but have been slow to act on its objectives.
该协定列出了23项目标，旨在到2030年 halt 和逆转自然损失，包括减少污染、保护受威胁物种以及保护全球30%的陆地和海洋。
The pact laid out 23 targets for halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, including reducing pollution, protecting threatened species and conserving 30% of the world’s land and oceans.
但古特雷斯在发布一份全球报告时表示，许多目标进展滞后，该报告凸显了雄心与行动之间的差距。
But many of these targets are off track, said Guterres as he launched a global report spotlighting the gaps between ambition and action.
“并非全是坏消息……有进展，但不够。我们离所需目标还很远，”他在亚美尼亚首都埃里温对记者说，COP17谈判将于10月19日在此拉开序幕。“报告显示，许多关键的进展要素……仍未付诸行动”。他补充说，这意味着“与自然的战争尚未结束”。
“It’s not all bad news... There is progress, but not enough. We are far from what is necessary,” he told reporters in the Armenian capital Yerevan where the COP17 talks start on Oct 19. “The report shows that many of the critical elements of progress... are still missing in action”. This meant the “war on nature has not yet ended”, he added.
报告指出，政府政策不足以实现到2030年保护地球30%陆地和水域的核心生物多样性目标。其他目标进展更为缓慢。
The report showed that government policies were insufficient to meet the centrepiece biodiversity goal to protect 30% of Earth’s land and waters by 2030. Other targets were lagging further behind.
古特雷斯表示，各国必须兑现对发展中国家的财政承诺，并指出在解决损害自然的政府支出方面进展甚微。
Guterres said countries must honour their financial pledges to developing countries and spoke to a lack of headway in tackling government spending that harms nature.
各国曾承诺到2030年每年减少有害补贴5000亿美元（约6412.4亿新元）——即针对化石燃料生产、采矿和农业等行业的州级激励措施——但目前进展甚微。
Countries have vowed to reduce harmful subsidies by US$500 billion (S$641.24 billion) a year by 2030 – state incentives for industries like fossil fuel production, mining and agriculture – but little progress has been made.
根据联合国数据，每投入1美元用于保护或恢复自然，仍有约30美元用于导致自然退化的活动。“自然不会仅凭良好意愿而繁荣，”古特雷斯说。
For every dollar invested in protecting or restoring nature, about US$30 still goes into activities that degrade it, according to UN figures. “Nature won’t thrive on good intentions,” Guterres said.
他指出，一些对政府拥有“过大影响力”的行业，如工业渔业、化石燃料和伐木作业，具有“非常强的影响力”。缺乏资金被确认为实现生物多样性目标的特殊障碍。
He pointed to the “very strong influence” of some sectors that had “too much power” over government including industrial fishing, fossil fuels and logging operations. The lack of finance has been identified as a particular barrier to achieving the biodiversity goals.
各国政府在COP17上不被期望作出重大新承诺，但将面临纠正航向的压力。
Governments are not expected to make major new pledges at COP17 but will be under pressure to correct course.
“生物多样性正处于危机之中。物种正在消失，生态系统正在崩溃，”野生动物保护协会的苏·利伯曼说。
“Biodiversity is in crisis. Species are disappearing and ecosystems are collapsing,” said Sue Lieberman from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
“政府和所有利益相关者必须认识到，投资自然不是一种奢侈，而是我们生存的关键。”法新社
“Governments and all stakeholders must see that investing in nature is not a luxury, it is the very key to our survival.”AFP