SAFE calls on environment ministers to live up to their promises on climate and biodiversity

15 October 2024

European Ministers of Environment meeting in Brussels on 14 October remained committed to the goal of global warming to 1.5°C as they prepared for the next world climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place from 11 to 22 November 2024.

Ministers concurred that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as to peace and security.

Ministers also reaffirmed their commitments made in 2022 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 and to put nature on a path to recovery for the benefit of humankind and our planet.

SAFE supports the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5°C and urges all countries to stand by their commitments to achieve this objective. We also stand by the objectives expressed in the European Biodiversity Strategy and the Nature Restoration Law and welcome similar initiatives globally.